With Nick Foles signing with the Jacksonville Jaguars, the Philadelphia Eagles will obviously have a new No. 2 quarterback in 2019, with the most likely option being Nate Sudfeld, who was formerly the No. 3 behind Carson Wentz and Foles.
According to Adam Caplan of Sirius XM NFL Radio, the Eagles have placed a second-round restricted free agent tender on Sudfeld.
That was the obvious move for the Eagles, but for those of you unfamiliar with the restricted free agent process, we'll explain.
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Players with only three accrued seasons in the NFL whose contracts have expired are restricted free agents. The Eagles had four choices of what they could do with Sudfeld, who is a restricted free agent.
They could tender him at (1) the first-round level, (2) the second-round level, (3) the level of his original draft position (or low tender), or (4) they can just let him go.
Once tendered, if another team were to sign Sudfeld to an offer sheet, the Eagles would have a chance to match that offer, or allow him to sign with the other team, gaining a draft pick in the corresponding round with which they tendered him. The higher the draft round the Eagles tender him at, the higher the cost his 2019 contract will be if he doesn't get any offers elsewhere.
Here are the projected values of the restricted free agent tenders this year:
• First round tender: $4,407,000
• Second round tender: $3,095,000
• Original round tender: $2,025,000
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