Soooo apparently Shedeur Sanders was almost a Philadelphia Eagle?
After two days of falling down the draft board, Sanders – ironically enough – ended up on the team that everyone always figured he would; it just took the Browns, like, 100 more picks to land him than anyone thought.
Midway through Day 3 of this weekend's draft, the Browns traded back up to land Sanders. And while everyone spent the following 10 minutes talking about how Sanders stacks up with the other 15 QBs on the Browns roster, NFL Network's Ian Rapoport quietly snuck in a ... rather interesting? ... nugget about why Cleveland traded up over the Eagles to take Sanders.
The Eagles got pretty close to drafting Shedeur Sanders according to NFL Insider
"There have been rumors all day that the Philadelphia Eagles were interested in Shedeur Sanders," he said. "It'd be a perfect landing spot for him. A veteran quarterback room, a team with a really good backbone, a really good culture. The Cleveland Browns just traded over the Eagles. I wonder here, I wonder – obviously they got Dillion Gabriel yesterday – did the Browns do this thinking the Eagles would take Shedeur? Just maybe, we'll see."
Uhhh, what? After the shock value fades, it does kinda make sense in its own weird way – although I'm not sure how stoked the Sanders camp would be to go to a place as the team's bonafide backup for the forseeable future. Now he can go compete with [checks notes] Joe Flacco and Dillon Gabriel for a starting job right away, which seems to make more sense for all parties involved.
Still – of all teams that could have taken Sanders, it's hard to think of a more surprising spot than the Eagles? Maybe the Chiefs? But we'll always remember the time that things almost got super weird for the Eagles on Day 3.
