Jon Gruden: Too many QBs could make one Eagle ‘expendable’

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PHILADELPHIA — Jon Gruden sees a potential problem for the Philadelphia Eagles.

Gruden knows all the people involved. Long before he was ESPN’s Monday Night Football analyst, he worked with Andy Reid in Green Bay. He was offensive coordinator of the Eagles before going on to become a head coach in Tampa Bay and Oakland.

Gruden has the same agent as Reid, Doug Pederson and Howie Roseman, the Eagles’ executive vice president of football operations. And he also knows quarterbacks, having conducted his Jon Gruden’s Quarterback Camp program on ESPN before the past seven NFL drafts.

Gruden is high on Carson Wentz, the quarterback the Eagles are likely to select after trading up for the No. 2 pick in next week’s draft. The problem is that the Eagles already signed a couple of quarterbacks back in March.

After calling Pederson a “quarterback-friendly” coach, Gruden pivoted.

“The problem I see right now in Philadelphia is they have too many quarterbacks to be friendly with,” Gruden said Thursday. “How are they going to distribute any reps and get anybody ready when you’ve got Sam Bradford making $18 million, you got Chase Daniel, who’s a backup, …

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