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Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Carson Wentz's NFL career has already been a whirlwind. The second overall pick of the 2016 NFL Draft has quickly established himself as one of football's most promising young players, but circumstance has consistently rendered him unable to show it on the game's biggest stage.
Wentz, likely leading the MVP race at the time of his injury, was sidelined for the Eagles' stunning run to the championship in 2017, and was forced to watch backup and reigning Super Bowl MVP Nick Foles lead his team in the postseason again this time around after suffering a broken bone in his back late in the regular season.
Though Wentz, Foles, and coach Doug Pederson have all downplayed any tension created by the Eagles' quarterback carousel, a recent profile of the former in Philly Voice hardly portrays him as a team-first player. Wentz subsequently refuted some specific aspects of the story but insisted he won't be changing the mental approach that's led him to so much success early in his career.
“I'm 26 years old; my personality, to some extent, ain't going to change,” he said during an interview at Philadelphia's practice facility, per ESPN's Tim McManus. “What's gotten me here, what's gotten me successful, I'm not going to say, ‘Oh, now I'm going to have this free-spirited, Cali-guy vibe.' That's just not going to change.”
For what it's worth, the Eagles have insisted throughout the last year-plus that Wentz is the team's quarterback of the future despite Foles' impressive play in each of the last two postseasons.
Foles, 30, will enter NFL free agency this summer barring Philadelphia using the franchise tag on him, a development unlikely to take place.
