Mere minutes after Philadelphia Eagles coach Doug Pederson told reporters Carson Wentz is the team’s starting quarterback moving forward, the speculation about Nick Foles going to a new team began.
Foles this season helped guide the Eagles to a 5-2 record, including a playoff victory, before the fairy tale ended with a divisional round loss in New Orleans on Sunday. Foles replaced the injured Wentz and it lifted the Eagles to those playoffs when it seemed they weren’t headed in that direction at all.
Foles was also the hero of Philadelphia’s improbable Super Bowl championship chase a year ago.