Beyond The Starters: Quaterback

Starting a new series of roster projections, we are going to give the backups some love. Starting at the quarterback position where the Eagles have no controversy and have their guy in Nick Foles. Yet with Michael Vick leaving, who is going to backup number nine? On the roster currently the Eagles have Matt Barkley coming into his second year in Chip Kelly's offense after a unimpressive rookie year, Mark Sanchez who is coming over from the New York Jets after starting his first four years with New York, only to get beaten out by default to rookie Geno Smith after a preseason injury for Sanchez. The Eagles liked Sanchez for his veteran experience, and playing in big games including two AFC championship appearances. Last but not least the return of G.J. Kinnie who was a training camp body last year, but did some good things in limited time during last season's preseason and beat out Dennis Dixon to make the practice squad. It would take a lot for Kinnie to beat out Sanchez or Barkley, unless a injury strikes of course (which we do not hope for). Both Barkley and Sanchez are familiar with playing against Chip Kelly in college as Barkley was the predecessor to Sanchez at USC. Both Quarterbacks will compete for the number two spot behind Nick Foles and right now in OTAs which may not be the best judgement of who is ahead of who but hey its June, Barkley looks like he is much more comfortable in Kelly's offense compared to last season, and is throwing the ball with a lot more speed and power to it. Sanchez has been solid as well, he has been throwing nicely helping rookie Jordan Matthews along throwing with him after practice everyday. This is why unlike a lot of Eagles fans, I like the signing just because of how young the other QBs on the roster are, and having playoff experience on the bench is a great bonus in case of a injury to Foles which I pray does not happen. So much for Kelly needing a mobile Quarterback on his roster eh? Currently on the roster I would not say that one of these guys is "mobile" granite Foles did score some rushing touchdowns last year and can move at the most necessary times, it just was a off season filler story because of how Kelly ran his QBs at Oregon. College football and the NFL is very different styles of offense which is why although it may have been necessary to have a mobile quarterback at Oregon, Foles, Sanchez, and Barkley have the right physical tools to run Kelly's offense. Oh and you to G.J. Knnie, I didn't forget about you!