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The Eagles traded quarterback Sam Bradford to the Vikings on Sunday in a move that executive vice president Howie Roseman called an opportunity that “we had to take advantage of.”

The trade leaves Chase Daniel and Carson Wentz as the quarterbacks in Philadelphia with reports indicating Wentz will be the starter as long as he is recovered from the rib injury he suffered in the team’s first preseason game. Roseman was asked if that meant the team was looking to the future rather than 2016. He said it wasn’t and that the team “felt like in balancing today and the future it was the right move for us.”

“Our job is to try to build something great, and I also think it would be a discredit to our veteran players and really our whole football team to discount them and the effort that they’ve given us,” Roseman said in comments distributed by the team. “We have a lot of talented players on this roster. At the same time, we’re trying to building something great. We have an opportunity with this to get back into the first round of the 2017 draft, get a pick in 2018 that we thought was important, and utilize that cash and cap space to improve the team in other areas that we didn’t have prior to this week.”

Roseman was also asked why the team might think Wentz is ready to play after making only a brief preseason appearance when the line from Philly all offseason was that they wanted him to sit for a year. Roseman said it was a coach’s decision who starts — Doug Pederson is away from the team after the death of his father on Friday — but that the team liked the way the rookie has progressed.

“It starts with his attention to detail; the way he goes about his business,” Roseman said. “But at the same time, we rely on the people who are around him all the time. That starts with our head coach and it goes to our offensive coordinator and our quarterbacks coach. They’re in the meeting rooms; they’re with him on the field when our other quarterbacks are playing; they’re in his ear when he’s practicing; they go through the thought process with him; and they’ve been around some great ones. We’re fortunate to have those guys, along with our entire coaching staff, and we rely on what they’re hearing and seeing as well. But certainly our interaction with him and our discussions with him, he’s come a long way, even since we got him in April.”

Roseman also said that conversations with the team’s medical staff left him “very confident” about Wentz’s physical condition, which may mean he’ll be on the field against the Browns next Sunday.