{"id":77319,"date":"2025-08-17T22:21:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T22:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/77319\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T22:21:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T22:21:08","slug":"why-eagles-added-wr-to-depth-chart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/77319\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Eagles added WR to depth chart"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Johnny Manziel talks all things NFL, Cleveland Browns and life after football<\/p>\n

Johnny Manziel chats with Mackenzie Salmon about all things football and his partnership with Sling TV.<\/p>\n

Sports Seriously<\/p>\n

The Philadelphia Eagles<\/a> are staying active on the NFL trade market, something they have done often under the leadership of general manager Howie Roseman.<\/p>\n

The Eagles acquired wide receiver John Metchie III<\/a> from the Houston Texans<\/a> on Sunday, per multiple reports.<\/p>\n

Here’s what to know about Metchie as he joins the reigning Super Bowl champions and looks to carve out a role in their receiving corps.<\/p>\n

John Metchie trade details<\/p>\n

Below is a look at the details of the Metchie trade, per NFL Network’s Tom Pelissero<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Eagles receive:WR John Metchie2026 sixth-round pickTexans receive:Who is John Metchie?<\/p>\n

Metchie, 25, was a second-round pick in the 2022 NFL Draft by the Texans. The Alabama<\/a> product missed his rookie campaign in 2022 while battling leukemia but played 29 games for Houston during the 2023 and 2024 seasons.<\/p>\n

Metchie totaled 40 catches for 412 yards and one touchdown during his time with the Texans. That included career-best marks in catches (24), receiving yards (254) and touchdowns (1) in 2024.<\/p>\n

Metchie never was able to carve out a sizable role with the Texans. He will look to earn a larger one with the Eagles.<\/p>\n

Below is a look at how the Eagles’ top six receivers currently align, according to the Eagles’ official website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* Denotes starter.<\/p>\n

It isn’t yet clear where Metchie will fall in Philadelphia’s pecking order, but the Eagles’ decision to trade for him indicates they would like to keep him on the 53-man roster.<\/p>\n

That will enter the 25-year-old into a stiff competition with Wilson, Smith and Marshall for the backup jobs behind Philadelphia’s starting trio.<\/p>\n

Metchie did not run a 40-yard dash ahead of the 2022 NFL Draft. He suffered a torn ACL late during the 2021 college football season and was unable to participate in athletic testing drills in advance of the draft.<\/p>\n

No, Metchie did not play with Hurts at Alabama. Hurts transferred from Alabama to Oklahoma ahead of the 2019 college football season.<\/p>\n

Metchie debut as a freshman at Alabama in 2019. He primarily played with Tua Tagovailoa, Mac Jones and Bryce Young during his three seasons with the Crimson Tide. All three signal-callers became first-round picks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Johnny Manziel talks all things NFL, Cleveland Browns and life after football Johnny Manziel chats with Mackenzie Salmon…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77320,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[1428,6424,159,3050,49,48,5588,1429,10386,10394,47051,8824,527,1443,1737,18799,18821,1465,47049,4813,47050,36190,27486,12483,5581,47052,47048,1327,1342,47,2349,2034,44,514,8827,1333,2042,1518,1747,18800,1464,6281,10387,82,865,1320,11285,1430],"class_list":["post-77319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-alabama","tag-alabama-crimson-tide-football","tag-american","tag-american-football","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-conference","tag-crimson","tag-devonta","tag-devonta-smith","tag-dotson","tag-eagles","tag-football","tag-houston","tag-houston-texans","tag-howie","tag-howie-roseman","tag-hub","tag-hurts","tag-iii","tag-jahan","tag-jahan-dotson","tag-jalen","tag-jalen-hurts","tag-john","tag-john-metchie-iii","tag-metchie","tag-modular","tag-modular-story","tag-national","tag-national-sports","tag-neutral","tag-news","tag-nfl","tag-nfl-hub","tag-overall","tag-overall-neutral","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-eagles","tag-roseman","tag-sec","tag-sec-conference-football","tag-smith","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-story","tag-texans","tag-tide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}