The Eagles might have found their third-string quarterback.
The team on Monday morning reached an agreement on a one-year deal with veteran QB Matt McGloin.
McGloin, 27, spent the first four years of his career with the Raiders. The Scranton, Pennsylvania native is also a product of Penn State, where he threw a then-program-record 46 touchdown passes.
During his NFL career, McGloin has seen action in 14 games and has started seven. He has completed 161 of 277 passes (58.1 percent) with 11 touchdowns and 11 interceptions. And he has a career passer rating of 75.3. McGloin had been Derek Carr's backup in Oakland.
April 17 marks the beginning of the Eagles' spring workout schedule. The first round of voluntary OTAs (organized team activities) kicks off on May 23. It will help to have another arm for the workouts.
The Eagles obviously have Carson Wentz as their starer and earlier this offseason signed Nick Foles to a two-year deal to be his backup.
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That means that, for now, McGloin is the team's third quarterback.
In 2016, the Eagles kept just two quarterbacks -- Wentz and Chase Daniel. Aaron Murray was the team's third quarterback, but was stashed on the practice squad.
While the team kept two on the roster last year, there's a shot Doug Pederson will elect to have three on the 53-man roster this year. Here's what he said about the depth at QB at the league's annual meetings earlier this month:
"We're always gonna look in the draft and we're always going to evaluate that position and you need four or five guys in training camp. But at the end of the day, normally three would be on your roster. One could be on the practice squad. So we'll continue obviously to look at that. Two are gonna be active on game day, and then that third guy, it could be a young guy that you acquire through the draft or it could be another free agent."
