Trade: Vote Of Confidence For CB Depth

It is an appropriate way to open Training Camp, right? The Eagles made a move, a trade in this case, that tells us something about how they value what they've seen from their new-look cornerback group ...

It is an appropriate way to open Training Camp, right? The Eagles made a move, a trade in this case, that tells us something about how they value what they've seen from their new-look cornerback group.

The trade: The Eagles dealt Brandon Boykin, the team's starting nickel cornerback the last three seasons, to the Pittsburgh Steelers for a conditional fifth-round draft pick in 2016. On the face of the facts -- that Boykin was in the last year of his contract and that he had been a starter --…