3 Reasons Philadelphia Eagles may not move on from Carson Wentz

3. As always, we have to bring up the Philadelphia Eagles’ financial issues.

Subjects like this normally come down to money, and with the Philadelphia Eagles, it’s no different. After giving Carson Wentz the most guaranteed money of any quarterback to ever sign with an NFL team on June 6th of 2019 ($107 million), the Birds aren’t in a situation where they can just cut or trade 11 with no recompense.

You’ve heard all of the stories about $30 million-plus in dead cap money that the Eagles will have to eat if Wentz is traded. There are ways to soften the blow, however. Just take a look at what Peter King penned in his weekly Football Morning in America column on the NBC Sports platform.

"All we’ve heard about the Wentz deal is it will tie Wentz to the Eagles for the next two years because moving him or cutting him is too cap-onerous. “No contract is untradeable,” former Eagle exec Joe Banner says. Jason Fitzgerald of Over The Cap has the best and most tolerable possibility for moving Wentz: If the Eagles trade him after June 1, 2021, he’d count $19.27 million on the cap for Philly in 2021, then $24.5 million in dead money in 2022, when the cap should finally be rising again. Especially with Hurts’ second-round rookie contract making the Wentz cap hits hurts less, it’s doable."

In the wise words of rhythm and blues, soul, and gospel legend Johnnie Taylor, ‘it’s cheaper to keep her’ (or ‘keep him’ in this case), so, let’s do a quick recap of the facts.

Philly may not trade Wentz because they may not find an interested party and even if they did, they probably wouldn’t get the value they were looking for. Come on. They traded up in 2016’s NFL Draft twice to get this guy. Do you think they’re giving him up for a third-round draft choice?

Then, there’s the other thing. Hurts can play, but what if he struggles or gets injured? What about all of that dead cap money? Sure, Philly could cut their losses and move on, but when have they ever done that? At this point, it easy to crank up the ‘run him out of town’ bus, but that’s because we’re being emotional.

The long and short of everything is this. Franchise quarterbacks are hard to come by. Contracts are hard to dump on other teams. Whether you want to hear this or not, Carson Wentz might be back on the Eagles roster as a very expensive backup.