It doesn’t matter if the Philadelphia Eagles have a Super Bowl MVP at quarterback or not, they will always look to address the signal-caller position late in the draft. The 2025 class was no different. Philadelphia selected Syracuse quarterback Kyle McCord in the sixth round of the draft.
It was the same round they drafted backup quarterback Tanner McKee in 2023. With McKee entering what is a contract year of sorts, the Eagles restarted at the backup position at this point. McCord is the first Syracuse quarterback to be drafted by the team since Donovan McNabb was the second overall pick in 1999. McNabb is the greatest quarterback in team history, so there’s a level of positive spin to have.
If Philadelphia had its way, though, it might not have needed McCord. Before the Eagles made their first fifth-round pick of the draft, the team was hopped by the Cleveland Browns. Cleveland’s pick? Colorado quarterback Shedeur Sanders. Sanders’ fall in the 2025 draft was shocking across the board for draft pundits. Many had a first-round grade on the son of Hall-of-Famer Deion “Primetime” Sanders. As he fell to Day 3, though, speculation grew that the Eagles may be willing to take a flier on the quarterback. It never happened, but Roseman made it clear any potential of it happening is to be forgotten about.
“I feel like the best thing to do is to focus on the players we did draft,” Roseman said after the completion of the 2025 draft. “It’d be a disservice to the players we did draft to talk about other teams players.” We’ll never know what the Eagles would have looked like if Sanders was the selection in the fifth round. It does remain clear, though, that their standing as a quarterback factory will remain true moving forward.