Eagles need to be careful with newest addition
Trades and big signings have a funny way of impacting NFL discourse. Players that get traded tend to become larger than life due solely to the trade happening in the first place, and this has a way of inflating projections for good players that may not be great. That looks like what is happening with […]
Trades and big signings have a funny way of impacting NFL discourse. Players that get traded tend to become larger than life due solely to the trade happening in the first place, and this has a way of inflating projections for good players that may not be great.
That looks like what is happening with the Philadelphia Eagles and running back D'Andre Swift. Swift is a good back-don't ever let anyone tell you otherwise, but acting like he is an absolute game changer for this roster is silly.
The Eagles are one of the best teams in the NFL and have a dominant rushing attack with a group of backs rather than one stud. Based on everything we have seen from the Eagles and Swift, the new trade addition figures to be a part of a rotation far more than he figures to be a feature part of a dominant breakout season.
Again, Swift is a good back, but he has done little to prove that he is a great back. Swift's averages are decent in his rotational capacity (4.6 yards per attempt on the ground for his career), but missing games, failing to win the starting job, and some untimely mistakes worked against Swift with the Lions.
It may be fair to blame some of these issues on a franchise that was struggling from top to bottom when he arrived, but last year showed that a system did exist that could make life better for running backs. Swift mostly just looked the same when compared to his past few seasons.
None of this is totally defining for Swift and means that he won't be great in a better situation with a better team and a better coach, but it might be fair to pump the brakes a little on the Swift RB1 talk before people start getting too far ahead of themselves on what this means for the Eagles.
