PHILADELPHIA, P.A. \u2014 Kyle McCord is looking to stick in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n
The sixth-round draft pick has found himself in a battle for the third quarterback spot on the Eagles’ 53-man roster.<\/p>\n
With reigning Super Bowl MVP Jalen Hurts and Tanner McKee locked into the starting and backup roles, the former Syracuse star is vying against veteran Dorian Thompson-Robinson for the third QB spot on the depth chart.<\/p>\n
McCord has struggled to make the most of his limited opportunities in the preseason.<\/p>\n
In Saturday’s preseason game against the Browns, McCord and Thompson-Robinson alternated after two drives each for the Eagles. Neither seemed to distance himself from the other.<\/p>\n
McCord completed 8 of 16 passes for 47 yards and a touchdown. His longest completion was the nine-yard pass on third-down to Ainias Smith for the score. McCord also threw an interception in the fourth quarter that was erased by a Browns penalty.<\/p>\n
Thompson-Robinson went 5 for 8 with 17 yards and an interception. <\/p>\n
As a whole, the Eagles put up just 88 yards of total offense in a 22-13 loss to Cleveland.<\/p>\n
Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni didn’t seem particularly thrilled with the performance of either after the game.<\/p>\n
“It was just not complementary football today,” said Sirianni when asked to evaluate the quarterback play.<\/p>\n
“The defense had some long drives, the offense had some three-and-outs, and you want to be able to play complimentary football in that area. I have to watch the tape, obviously, they had some good moments, they had some plays that they made, but also, we missed some plays.”<\/p>\n
“That’s not always just on the quarterback, if there was a missed play, but I’ll have to go watch the tape,” said Sirianni. “It wasn’t good enough.” <\/p>\n
McCord completed just one of five passes and threw a pick in the Eagles’ first preseason game against the Bengals.<\/p>\n
The Philly-area native has one more chance to convince the Eagles that his upside is worth a spot on the 53-man roster. <\/p>\n
Philadelphia will play it’s final preseason game on Friday, August 22nd against the Jets at MetLife Stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA, P.A. \u2014 Kyle McCord is looking to stick in Philadelphia. The sixth-round draft pick has found himself…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2068],"tags":[8693,25,7,492,1180,6,242,109,2476,11520,1257,1647,1287],"class_list":{"0":"post-293964","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia-eagles","8":"tag-dorian-thompson-robinson","9":"tag-eagles","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-jalen-hurts","12":"tag-kyle-mccord","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-philadelphia","15":"tag-philadelphia-eagles","16":"tag-philadelphiaeagles","17":"tag-preseason","18":"tag-quarterback","19":"tag-roster","20":"tag-touchdown"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115041121577171698","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}