Eagles’ Updated Depth Chart, Draft Picks, Salary Cap After Carson Wentz Trade

Eagles’ Updated Depth Chart, Draft Picks, Salary Cap After Carson Wentz Trade

FILE - Philadelphia Eagles' Carson Wentz warms up before an NFL football game against the Green Bay Packers in Green Bay, Wis., in this  Sunday, Dec. 6, 2020, file photo. The Matthew Stafford-Jared Goff trade not only has whet fans' appetites for big deals, it's caused a social media frenzy about which quarterbacks are headed elsewhere. (AP Photo/Matt Ludtke, File)

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The Philadelphia Eagles supposedly got to a contract Thursday to trade quarterback Carson Wentz to the Indianapolis Colts for a set of draft picks.

ESPN’s Adam Schefter as well as Chris Mortensen reported the Eagles will certainly get a 2021 third-round option as well as a 2022 second-rounder that might end up being a first-round choice.

Mike Garafolo of the NFL Network kept in mind the conditional choice is contingent on playing time or Indy making the playoffs:

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The conditional second-rounder in 2022 comes to be a first-rounder if Wentz plays 75 percent of the breaks or 70 percent as well as the group makes the playoffs. https://t.co/quAYwcz7bd

Here’s a consider the Eagles’ updated team of predicted offending beginners:

  • QB: Jalen Hurts
  • RB: Miles Sanders
  • WR: DeSean Jackson
  • WR: Alshon Jeffery
  • WR: Jalen Reagor
  • TE: Zach Ertz
  • LT: Andre Dillard
  • LG: Isaac Seumalo
  • C: Jason Kelce
  • RG: Brandon Brooks
  • RT: Lane Johnson

Philadelphia currently has 16 picks over the following 2 years:

  • 2021: 1st, second, third, IND third, fifth, DAL 5th, sixth, 7th
  • 2022: 1st, second, IND second (conditional), third, fourth, fifth, sixth, 7th

The trade is arranged to leave a $33.82 million dead-cap pinch hit the Eagles in 2021, according to Spotrac It’s the biggest cap hit of that nature in NFL background, per Art Stapleton of The Record.

Wentz was benched for Hurts throughout the last phases of the 2020 period after a collection of inadequate efficiencies.

The 2017 Pro Bowl option finished a career-low 57.4 percent of his tosses for 2,620 lawns with 16 goals as well as 15 interceptions throughout 12 looks.

It stood for a sharp decrease in play from 2016’sNo 2 general draft choice after he put together 81 TDs as well as 21 picks in 40 video games throughout the previous 3 years (2017-19).

“At the end of the day, it’s outside of my control,” Wentz informed press reporters in December after being benched. “That’s not for me [to decide]. I know what I’m capable of. I know I can play better. I have never doubted myself or lost my confidence in my abilities. But a lot of these things are out of my control.”

Schefter reported after the quarterback modification that Wentz would not wish to stay in Philadelphia progressing if it indicated being a back-up, as well as currently the Eagles have actually dealt him to the Colts.

The 28-year-old North Dakota State item will certainly load deep space in Indianapolis left by the retired life of Philip Rivers, that led the franchise business to an 11-5 document as well as a playoff berth in 2020.

Meanwhile, it’s uncertain whether the Eagles will certainly progress with Hurts as their undoubted starter for 2021 or if they’ll look for competitors for him in totally free firm or the draft.

The 2019 Heisman Trophy runner-up generated 8 complete goals (5 death as well as 3 hurrying) in his 4 begins to complete the 2020 period, however he attached on just 51.9 percent of his passes.

At minimum, Philadelphia will most likely wish to generate an expert back-up in situation Hurts does not take an advance as a pure passer following period.