WHEN THE EAGLES go on the clock Thursday evening to make their first-round selection in the draft, be sure to hoist a glass for poor Teddy Bridgewater.
Were it not for the Minnesota Vikings quarterback's misfortune late last August, when he suffered a freak knee injury in practice, the Eagles and their fans would be sitting on their hands Thursday.
They had traded away their 2017 first-round pick four months before that in a predraft deal with the Cleveland Browns to move up and get Carson Wentz.
Then, Bridgewater got hurt and, yada, yada, yada, the Vikings gave the Eagles their first-round pick in a deal for Sam Bradford.