wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n\u201c\u201cMcKee typically looks strong in the preseason, and he looked acceptable in two Week 18 starts while throwing to the Eagles\u2019 backups. He is an older prospect (will be 26 next season), but he still has a developmental arc in that he has never seen extended game action. In a world where Will Howard might be starting for the Steelers or Quinn Ewers could be in for the Dolphins, McKee deserves a camp fight somewhere.\u201d<\/p>\n
If there are any problems with McKee, it\u2019s the fact that he\u2019s a bit old, as Solak touched on. It\u2019s not the biggest deal that he\u2019ll turn 26 next year, but we aren\u2019t talking about a 21-year-old second-year player here.<\/p>\n
While he lacks the long-term outlook of a younger prospect, he also hasn\u2019t played enough snaps to say whether he\u2019s as good as he can be right now. It wouldn\u2019t be surprising to see him on a team willing to give him a shot and play well as a full-time starter.<\/p>\n
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The quarterback situations around the league only make him even more intriguing. Outside of Malik Willis on the trad market, there aren\u2019t many great options for QB-needy teams.<\/p>\n
For Howie Roseman, the decision would come down to asset management. Philadelphia has built a living for developing quarterbacks and flipping depth into draft picks when the time makes sense to do so.<\/p>\n
If another team views McKee as a true No. 2 option, or even a cheap bridge QB, the Eagles could once again turn quarterback depth into future capital, which could be used to draft a player or packaged into making a deal for someone proven in the league.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Quarterback depth is great for many reasons, but trading the depth is the biggest part, and that reality…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":743998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2068],"tags":[16499,25,7,1641,4097,6,242,109,2476,1849,426,1840,425,2183],"class_list":{"0":"post-743997","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia-eagles","8":"tag-ben-solak","9":"tag-eagles","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-howie-roseman","12":"tag-malik-willis","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-philadelphia","15":"tag-philadelphia-eagles","16":"tag-philadelphiaeagles","17":"tag-quinn-ewers","18":"tag-steelers","19":"tag-tanner-mckee","20":"tag-the-eagles","21":"tag-will-howard"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743997","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=743997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/743998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}