{"id":532801,"date":"2026-03-19T12:57:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T12:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/532801\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T12:57:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T12:57:13","slug":"eagles-acquire-qb-andy-dalton-from-panthers-in-exchange-for-2027-seventh-round-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/532801\/","title":{"rendered":"Eagles acquire QB Andy Dalton from Panthers in exchange for 2027 seventh-round pick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dalton&#8217;s most prominent action as a Panther came in 2024, when Carolina <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/news\/panthers-benching-bryce-young-after-0-2-start-andy-dalton-to-start-at-qb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">benched<\/a> <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/bryce-young\/\" title=\"Bryce Young\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bryce Young<\/a> in favor of Dalton heading into Week 3, after which the Red Rifle started the next five contests, going 1-4 while throwing for 989 yards, seven touchdown and six interceptions with an 82.5 passer rating. The Panthers turned the reins back over to Young after Dalton <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/news\/bryce-young-to-start-on-sunday-vs-broncos-with-andy-dalton-dealing-with-thumb-sprain-from-car-crash\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">suffered a thumb injury<\/a> in a car crash.<\/p>\n<p>He started one contest in relief of Young last season, a 40-9 loss to the Buffalo Bills in which he threw for 175 yards and a pick on 16-of-24 passing.<\/p>\n<p>He joins the Eagles sporting 39,793 passing yards, 254 TDs and 151 INTs in his career with three made Pro Bowls and an 84-83-2 record.<\/p>\n<p>Now a third option rather than a primary backup, it&#8217;s less likely he&#8217;ll add to those numbers, but he can assuredly keep a team with such a ferocious defense afloat should it come to it.<\/p>\n<p>His first season in Philadelphia will also serve as somewhat of a reunion tour; Dalton isn&#8217;t slated to face the Bengals, who drafted him in the second round of the 2011 draft, but the Eagles do face off against a trio of his former teams &#8212; the Cowboys (twice), Bears and Panthers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dalton&#8217;s most prominent action as a Panther came in 2024, when Carolina benched Bryce Young in favor of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":532802,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[137534,6255,3687,3,349,6257,215714,1239,99],"class_list":["post-532801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-andy-dalton","tag-around-the-nfl","tag-carolina-panthers","tag-news","tag-nfl","tag-no-minute","tag-offseason-news","tag-philadelphia-eagles","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}