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McLane: Eagles have few alternatives at wide receiver

This is a story about a young, talented quarterback and his burdensome wide receivers.

Eagles receivers not named Jordan Matthews caught only two out of five targeted passes for 7 yards Sunday in the 24-15 win over the Falcons.

While those numbers are alarmingly low considering that Nelson Agholor (91 percent), Dorial Green-Beckham (56) and Bryce Treggs (19) played a combined 34.4 percent of the skill-position snaps, the passes that Carson Wentz threw in their collective direction were about all that were warranted.

The bad news: Wentz doesn't have reliable outside receivers. The good news (at least in terms of Sunday's game): He has not come to rely on them.