Carson Wentz top 3 trade destinations for 2021 season
Carson Wentz top 3 trade destinations for 2021 season.
Could the Philadelphia Eagles and quarterback Carson Wentz go their separate ways in the 2021 offseason?
That no longer seems like an impossible or ridiculous thought.
The Eagles have officially benched Wentz for rookie Jalen Hurts, the team’s second-round pick in the 2020 NFL Draft.
The drafting of Hurts was the Eagles’ signal-fire of an eventual desire to make this change, but it came sooner than just about anyone had thought. Clearly, Doug Pederson is not pleased with the way Wentz runs his offense, and Wentz has certainly taken a step or two back from the MVP form he showed in 2017 prior to injury.
The NFL is a league loaded with coaches and general managers who will believe the best is still yet to come for Wentz, even if the Eagles don’t. Philadelphia should recoup some nice draft capital should they choose to make Wentz available, but what teams have the cap space, draft capital, and need to trade for him?
Let’s take a look at three possible destinations.
3. Chicago Bears
The Bears are an interesting team, certainly in transition at the quarterback position.
The Bears’ own former second-overall pick Mitchell Trubisky is headed for free agency in the 2021 offseason. Nick Foles is still under contract for at least another season with a high dead cap hit, so this potential move — longshot as it may be — would reunite both Foles and Wentz in the Windy City.
How would that be for a fun offseason storyline?
The big question here is obviously — can the Bears even afford this?
The answer is yes, teams can manipulate the salary cap as needed, and the Bears could certainly make cuts necessary to fit Wentz’s $15.4 million base salary under their salary cap.
As for draft capital, that would be inconsequential to Ryan Pace and Matt Nagy. If both men keep their jobs with Chicago, the mission will be clear — win now, or else.
Getting a player like Wentz into a system like Nagy’s (another Andy Reid disciple) could jumpstart his career and get Nagy’s job in Chicago off of life-support.