The photo in the NovaCare Complex hallway from his 2013 Pro Bowl season still looms large, and there are others now, even bigger, on other walls, from Super Bowl LII, to remind Nick Foles of what he is capable of doing.
Foles will open the season Thursday night as the Eagles’ starting quarterback, the team opting to be cautious with franchise quarterback Carson Wentz as Wentz returns from knee surgery. But that caution isn’t expected to extend more than a week or two. The plan is for Foles to retreat to the sideline before the leaves turn.
If Foles spends most of the year performing mop-up work, as he did in 2016 for Kansas City behind Alex Smith, can Foles command offers to become a starter somewhere when he hits free agency in 2019?