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The Philadelphia Eagles officially inked veteran quarterback Joe Flacco to a one-year contract on Tuesday. The deal is worth $3.5 million in guaranteed money and could get as high as $7.5 million in playing-time incentives, per Adam Caplan of Inside the Birds.
Philadelphia had also been connected to Nick Foles in a possible trade with the Chicago Bears. Perhaps the franchise thought better of bringing their Super Bowl MVP ghost back to town to look over Jalen Hurts’ shoulder. Instead, that job belongs to Flacco, another one-time Super Bowl MVP.
Flacco, who grew up in South Jersey, played the mentor role to Sam Darnold last year for the New York Jets. He made four starts in 2020 and finished 74-of-134 for 864 yards and six touchdowns (three interceptions). The Jets let him walk in free agency after just one season in the Big Apple.
“That’s the NFL. There is no forgiveness. Yesterday means nothing,” Flacco told reporters last year, via the Jets website. “You have to go out there and prove it every day — that’s the great thing about this sport. In this league, you have to play with confidence, and the more you lose, the harder it is to do that.”
According to NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport, the 49ers and Eagles both brought Flacco in for a workout earlier this week. Flacco is an established 11-year NFL veteran who won Super Bowl MVP honors in 2013 for the Baltimore Ravens. The 36-year-old has a career passer rating of 84.1 with 40,931 yards and 224 touchdowns.
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DeSean Jackson Signs with Los Angeles
Former Eagles players are having an easy time finding new jobs in the NFL. Malik Jackson inked a one-year deal with the Cleveland Browns. Jalen Mills signed on the dotted line with the New England Patriots. Now DeSean Jackson is headed to his hometown after latching on with the Los Angeles Rams. He’ll look to be Matthew Stafford’s new speed threat out there.
Jackson was hoping for a fairy-tale ending in Philly, the organization that drafted him in the second round in 2008. But a rash of unfortunate injuries limited the 34-year-old to just eight appearances (244 offensive snaps) in two seasons back in midnight green. He leaves as the franchise’s third-best receiver of all-time in yardage (6,512).
Nick Sirianni Confident in Young Receivers
The Eagles are fully committed to their youth movement, especially at the wide receiver position. They’ll enter the 2021 campaign with eight largely unproven pass-catchers: Jalen Reagor, Travis Fulgham, Greg Ward, John Hightower, Quez Watkins, J.J. Arcega-Whiteside, Deontay Burnett, Khalil Tate.
The expectation has been that the team will draft another one in the first round, maybe LSU’s Ja’Marr Chase or Alabama’s DeVonta Smith. But new head coach Nick Sirianni took a minute last week to praise the in-house candidates already on the roster.
“This is a deep wide receiver class,” Sirianni told reporters. “But what we do is look through all our options, we watch the tape on all the guys, do our homework on all the guys. Like every other position, we do whatever we need to do to improve the Eagles and make the position as good as we can possibly make the position.”
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