The Eagles used a sixth-round pick Saturday to select Stanford quarterback Tanner McKee.
“Everybody in the NFL is a little bit faster, a little bit bigger and a little bit taller. I’m excited that I’ll have to anticipate things a little bit more and elevate my game.”
He’s certainly a long-term project and a developmental quarterback, but when you’re picking in the sixth round and you just gave your starting quarterback a quarter of a billion dollars, there’s certainly value in finding a late-round project to try and develop.“I have no idea,” he told the Deseret News. “There are so many opinions from a lot of different people and they vary so much. I know that at some point my name will get called.
The Eagles signed veteran Marcus Mariota last month to back up Jalen Hurts. The only other quarterback on the roster is former Notre Dame star Ian Book, who was No. 3 last year behind Hurts and Gardner Minshew. Hall and Thorson are the only quarterbacks the Eagles have drafted in the last 25 years that never got into an NFL game.
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