Eagles Aren't Looking to Trade Foles
Friday, a source close to the situation said the Eagles "haven't even discussed moving Nick [Foles]," and "want to keep Nick."
Eagles Aren't Looking to Trade Foles
Les Bowen, Daily News Staff Writer
News of Thursday's Eagles signing of former Oregon quarterback Dennis Dixon arrived right around the same time that USA Today reported former Eagles coach Andy Reid would like to see the Chiefs trade for Nick Foles.
As is often the case when apparent serendipity strikes, some folks put these two events together and concluded Foles was on his way out of here, sooner rather than later.
Eagles sources moved quickly Thursday to knock down some of the more outlandish Dixon theories, letting it be known quickly that the 2008 Steelers fifth-rounder and recent Baltimore Ravens practice squad QB is coming here because he was available for nothing and he has history with Chip Kelly's offense. Dixon is hardly in some sort of anything-goes competition to be the Eagles' starter, regardless of what you might have read or heard elsewhere.
Friday, a source close to the situation said the Eagles "haven't even discussed moving Nick," and "want to keep Nick."
Of course, any player is available for the right price. The Associated Press reported the Eagles wouldn't consider moving Foles, a third-round rookie last year, for anything less than a first- or second-rounder. He is unlikely to command that price off his six-start rookie season, which showed promise but resulted in a 1-5 record. The Eagles' surprise one-year reworking of Michael Vick's contract seemed to give Vick the inside track on starting for the Birds this season.
ESPN draft analyst Todd McShay held a conference call Friday in which McShay said nobody in the NFL he has talked to has a first-round grade on any quarterback in the 2013 draft. If that's true, Foles' trade value might go up. But the Eagles would have to be willing to trade him.
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The Eagles announced the signing of OT Ed Wang, 6-5, 315, a 2010 Buffalo draftee who played last season for the Raiders. Wang's parents were 1984 Chinese Olympians. Though Wang was born in Virginia, he is considered the first full-blooded Chinese-American drafted into the NFL.
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- What's Foles shown anyone in a body of work over those 7 games he's started that makes him worth a 2nd or 3rd round draft pick? How did that get taken seriously? The kid has a future, he's not ready, nor do the Eagles have the receivers to take advantage of what may mature to deliver. But under no circumstance is he now ready to lead an NFL Team. He compared in no way to the other rookies at Quarterback last year. If Kelly really wants to run an option defense, there's no way Foles is the Quarterback you want to see coming around end as the ball carrier. Still I'd hand on to the kid and bring him along in another year or two.— Dexter
- Makes sense. Just in case his zone read option gimmick doesn't work, he wants to keep a normal QB on the roster.— EmanuelP
- If AR offers a fourth rounder, take it...we need too mcuh to hold on to guy who is a maybe in this system.....Vick is the starter cause he is mobile, Dixon is the player coach (see Doug Pederson) and EJ or someone will be drafted//////— nuggett
