This weekend’s NFL slate features something I never thought I’d see again: Carson Wentz squaring off against the Eagles. Wentz has faced his old team just once as a starter back in the 2022 season with Washington. In the matchup down in Maryland, the Birds’ defense destroyed Wentz, sacking him a whopping nine times and shutting down the former face of their franchise with ease.
2022 was the end of Wentz’s time as a go-to starting quarterback, but he’s bounced around in good systems since, going to Sean McVay’s Rams to Andy Reid’s Chiefs and, to a lesser extent, Kevin O’Connell’s Vikings. Being a journeyman isn’t what Wentz envisioned would become of him as a pro when the Eagles traded him away in the 2021 offseason to Indianapolis, but nothing about Wentz’s career makes much sense, does i