Crossing Broad
The Eagles’ quarterback factory is humming once again after Tanner McKee’s excellent preseason performance on Thursday night. The 6th round draft pick carved up the Bengals to the tune of 20-25 passing, 252 yards and two touchdowns. He threw no picks while taking two sacks and logging a 135.3 QB rating.
Dick Vitale would have called McKee’s performance “awesome, baby!”, but Eagles fans know that McKee can sling it. He’s seen limited action since coming to the Birds, but he looks great whenever he does get the call, notably chopping up the Giants in the 2024 season finale while going 27 for 41 for 269 yards and two touchdowns. The G Men were dead in the water at that point, but playing their starters, and McKee got the W without the services of Saquon Barkley, A.J. Brown, DeVonta Smith, and the starting offensive line.
Naturally, people are wondering about McKee’s value. Could he return a 1st or 2nd round pick in a trade? How many teams need a starting QB anyway?
We will oblige, and go down the full list.
For the exercise, we’ll look at it this way: it’s not whether or not McKee is better than the projected starter. It’s if he could realistically start for the team, so we’ll say that if he’s at least equal in talent to the QB1, then it goes down as a “yes” for purposes of the task.
To the list:
