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Here are two outcomes from last week’s NFL draft that merit attention at West Virginia. One is obvious. One is a surprise. Both were noted by the WVU coaching staff as it went out recruiting this week.

The Philadelphia Eagles took two Mountaineers and signed another after the seven rounds were complete, and that follows a draft pick last year. The Eagles have drafted (Wendell Smallwood, Rasul Douglas, Shelton Gibson) or signed (Najee Goode, who’s been on the squad since 2013) four WVU players. No school is represented more on the roster. It’s matched by Florida, Florida State and LSU, and the tally doesn’t count Tyler Orlosky, who could make the team.

But we knew that, right?

What probably comes as a surprise is the most fruitful state in the draft. It wasn’t Texas or Florida or California or Ohio or Louisiana or Pennsylvania.

It was Georgia.

No pressure, Doug Belk!

(Also odd: Consider that Colorado, Missouri, Nebraska, Texas A&M, TCU and WVU are all linked by conference realignment. In the past five years, TCU and WVU have 27 picks. The other four have 53. The Aggies lead the way with 18. WVU has 16.)

So, given all of that, as well as the fact the Mountaineers are the only Big 12 team to have a player picked in the top three rounds the past six years, the coaching staff’s course Monday morning makes sense. They’re concentrating their focus in Georgia and they’re spreading their wings in Eagles Country.

What makes this Philadelphia news even more fortuitous for West Virginia is that, for the last week and a half, several Mountaineer assistants have been in and around the City of Brotherly Love for recruiting purposes. Offensive coordinator Jake Spavital spent nearly the entire week just across the border in New Jersey — where many Eagles fans live — and Mark Scott was in the eastern half of Pennsylvania for most of the week, too. In fact, Scott was joined by safeties coach Matt Caponi to specifically recruit the city of Philadelphia on Thursday.

That was not planned, of course. The staff had no way of knowing so many Mountaineers would end up with Philadelphia. That was luck. What’s not luck, though, is how this staff is churning out NFL talent at a rate not seen in Morgantown for a while. That kind of consistent success will catch any recruit’s attention.