On Tuesday, he showed up at work around 8 a.m., even though it was a players’ day off. Daniel joined him then, too. Pederson was named the Eagles’ starter while Donovan McNabb, the second overall pick in the draft, was given time to develop.
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The Vikings, who won the NFC North last season with an 11-5 record, lost their starting quarterback, Teddy Bridgewater, to a season-ending knee injury four days before the trade.
The rookie said he’s been working hard to get on the same page as his first-team teammates. It’s something that we believe in.
Shot five years ago, the video below is of Wentz and two of his friends, also known as the “GarbShotz”, hitting some shots you simply won’t believe.
“Would the ideal situation be later than sooner?” Sure. But right now, where we are, we’ve got a good football team around him … We can’t go out there and tell Carson to win this game.
Initial speculation was that backup Chase Daniels would become the placeholder while Wentz sat and learned. I’ll just take them in stride.
Browns chief strategy officer Paul DePodesta told ESPN.com in July the team didn’t draft a quarterback – he didn’t mention Wentz by name – because it didn’t consider any player in this draft to be “good enough to be a top 20 quarterback in the National Football League”.
Coach Doug Pederson formally announced that Wentz will be the starter and that he is healthy to play despite suffering a hairline rib fracture in a preseason game that he played. Pederson can understand what Wentz will be going through after experiencing the same emotions as a player, and expects to have similar emotions on Sunday. He has so much experience; I can trust what he says. Treggs had missed the last three games with a sprained MCL, but hopes to be cleared to play this Sunday. He had, however, sat out of live drills and game action for three weeks after he suffered a hairline fracture in his ribs during the August 11 preseason opener.
Now he’ll be under center against the team that traded down in the draft instead of staying put and selecting him. “That’s the type of guy that we knew we have in Carson Wentz”. “But I didn’t feel overwhelmed or anything”. In a given year, there may be two or three NFL-ready quarterbacks at the college level.
Nassib has a chance to be an enforcer on this team with his relentless motor, making Wentz vs. Nassib another fun storyline to pay attention to this Sunday. In his first game, he completed 9 of 21 passes for 75 yards and an interception in a 7-0 loss to Washington. The one exception? A 34-14 beatdown of Big 12 team Iowa State in his first NCAA start. “The television rating on this for the opening game will come in on this like a Cavs playoff game”.
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Pederson said that times change. They’ve been taking extra reps together during special teams periods and after practice. “That’s what those guys did back early in their careers with the Roethlisbergers and the Flaccos and the Ryans and quarterbacks like that”.
