Washington Football Team: Exploring every potential quarterback trade target

QB Carson Wentz, Eagles

At this point, Carson Wentz is being listed more as a formality than anything else. Nobody will want to trade for Wentz after the awful season he just had.

Wentz had one of the worst year-to-year regressions by a quarterback in NFL history last season. He completed a career-low 57.4 percent of his passes, tossed a league-high 15 interceptions, led the Eagles to a 3-8-1 record in his 12 starts, and was benched late in the year for Jalen Hurts.

There’s still plenty of time for Wentz to turn his career around. He just turned 28 and played well during the 2019 campaign. But no team will be willing to bank on him rebounding with the current contract he’s under.

Wentz is set to enter the first year of a four-year, $128 million extension in 2021. He will have a cap hit of at least $31 million in each of the next four years. There are some outs in his contract but frankly, even spending $30+ million of cap space on Wentz this year is a risk for any non-Eagles team.

The only way Washington should consider acquiring Wentz is if the Eagles did what the Texans once did with Brock Osweiler and traded him in a salary-dump move to the Browns. If that happens, then sure, the Washington Football Team can acquire draft capital and take a chance on Wentz being the answer. And if he’s not, he can be cut after 2022 for some minor cap saving.

Save for that though, there’s no reason to have an interest in Wentz. He simply needs to prove himself and will have to do that under a new head coach with the Eagles.

That represents just about every notable quarterback that could be traded this offseason. It’s possible that a couple of them will be traded, or perhaps none will be. No matter what occurs though, the Washington Football Team will be watching this market closely and will be ready to pounce if they think the player is right to upgrade the most important position on their team.