A week ago Saturday, Carson Wentz practiced as if he were nearing a full return. The Eagles quarterback took snaps during team drills. He worked with the first unit offense. He planted his surgically repaired left knee into the ground, escaped from the pocket and accelerated from pursuant defenders.
To many who had watched Wentz closely over the last two years, it was as if he had never torn ligaments in his knee last December — an assessment his coach agreed with a day later.
“I think if you didn’t know he had the injury or had the brace on his leg,” Doug Pederson said, “you’d probably assess that everything was good.