Potential Eagles free-agent targets with connections to Nick Sirianni

Would the Chiefs move on from Melvin Ingram? Would the Eagles show interest?

With everything that we know about Melvin Ingram, it’s interesting that the Kansas City Chiefs could acquire him from the Pittsburgh Steelers for a sixth-round draft choice. It seems like a steal, but hey, that’s how the ball bounces in the NFL sometimes.

Ingram hasn’t necessarily been a world-beater for the Chiefs, but he’s occasionally shown flashes of the guy that earned the first of three consecutive Pro Bowl nods in 2017, Sirianni’s final season with the Chargers (they had just moved to Los Angeles from San Diego).

K.C. has yet to extend Ingram. Maybe he hits free agency. Maybe he doesn’t. Who knows? Maybe Father Time is catching up to him. Then again, maybe it isn’t. It’s easy to assume that he has a little left, but here are two things that we can say.

One, he can play with his hand in the dirt or stand up, and any NFL team could use that type of versatility. Second, if he isn’t overworked (it wouldn’t be wise at this juncture), in a rotational role, he’d surely be more of a contributor to the Eagles than Ryan Kerrigan was. Some of you thought that Kerrigan’s addition was ‘low-risk and high-reward’, and Ingram was better than Ryan then and now.

That isn’t to say that Philly should open the purse to land a veteran that turns 33 years young during the offseason, but he’s definitely worth a mention on a list of guys with ties to Nick Sirianni.