The NFL Draft is about finding great players and adding value to your respective organization.
Only the decision-makers within the Philadelphia Eagles organization can honestly assess what their value was on Jalen Hurts, who the team drafted in the second round on Friday night.
Howie Roseman deemed it a value pick, with Hurts bringing a ton the Eagles locker room as well as on the field. Eagles fans, analysts, and experts have been in an uproar about the selection, with a variety of opinions centered around Carson Wentz’s future in Philadelphia.
Wentz is set to play on the fifth-year option and with $66 million guaranteed upon signing his $128 million contract extension, it’s hard to envision the Eagles moving on from their franchise quarterback.
Hurts was brought in to solidify the Eagles backup quarterback for years to come and potentially bring value if other clubs start to like what they see.
With the Eagles now married to both players, here are three reasons why the duo will successfully coexist in the same quarterback room and make Howie Roseman look like a genius years down the road.
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1. Carson Wentz is just that damn GOOD
Wentz will say all the right things once he does hold a news conference and he truthfully has no reason to be worried. He’s one of the top-10 quarterbacks in football and if not for a dirty hit by Jadeveon Clowney, we probably aren’t even having this conversation. A high-character guy who has dealt with adversity going all the way back to North Dakota State, Wentz will allow this assumed slight to fuel him.
Wentz is coming off his best season as a pro after passing for 4,000+ yards, with 27 touchdowns and only seven interceptions.
Despite missing eight games the last two years Wentz already has the 9th-most TD passes in NFL history by a QB in his first four seasons. Wentz is top in Eagles team history with 96 touchdown passes and will Donovan McNabb in the next four years if he stays healthy.
Wentz only has 35 career interceptions.
Wentz is the only QB in NFL history to record 95+ passing touchdowns and 35-or-fewer interceptions in their first 54 career games.
Of the 10 quarterbacks currently ahead of him in touchdown passes over their first four seasons, only Russell Wilson has also thrown fewer than 44 interceptions in his first four years, and only Wilson and Dan Marino have a higher passer rating.
Wentz is the first quarterback in NFL history to record 30+ completions and 0 interceptions in 3 consecutive games.
Wentz joined a select group of quarterbacks in NFL history with three straight seasons of 20 plus touchdowns and 7 or fewer interceptions, joining Tom Brady, Peyton Manning, Russell Wilson, Drew Brees, and Aaron Rodgers in that distinct club.
BIRDS EYE VIEW: Carson Wentz is one of only six QBs in @NFL history to record three consecutive seasons with 20+ passing TDs and 10-or-fewer INTs, joining Drew Brees, Tom Brady, Aaron Rodgers, Russell Wilson and Peyton Manning. #FlyEaglesFly pic.twitter.com/jVV0RY8Xaw
— John Gonoude (@john_gonoude) January 3, 2020
Wentz will likely hold every Eagle passing record and his 97 career touchdown passes are ninth-most in NFL history by a QB in his first four seasons. Of the 28 signal-callers with at least 80 TD passes in their first four seasons, none has a better interception ratio than Wentz.
Carson joins Aaron Rodgers and Dak Prescott as the only quarterbacks in history to average a touchdown at least every 20 attempts and an INT less than every 50 attempts in his career.
It was an insurance pick, but it shouldn’t even be a conversation.
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