The Eagles have a trade in place with the Seahawks that would send them defensive end Michael Bennett, along with a seventh-round draft pick, in exchange for wide receiver Marcus Johnson and a fifth-round pick. The deal won’t become official until Wednesday at 4 p.m. when the new league year opens, but barring any glitches, the Eagles have seemingly added another piece to their formidable defensive line.
“We’re going to continue [to invest] in our defensive line,” Howie Roseman said last week at the NFL combine. “We feel very confident for us to be successful on defense, it has to be waves of defensive linemen, that those guys come in fresh, that they’re fastball off the edge and then the inside.