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When the Eagles traded up to the No. 2 pick of the draft to select quarterback Carson Wentz, it made the rookie the obvious choice as the team’s quarterback of the future.

With Sam Bradford and Chase Daniel already on the roster, the future doesn’t need to start now and the presence of those two veteran quarterbacks led to discussion about whether Wentz will even be part of the active roster on Sundays this fall. There’s still training camp and the preseason to sort things out, but coach Doug Pederson says that Wentz on the inactive list is likely the way things stand right now.

“Typically, the third quarterback is down,” Pederson said, via Jimmy Kempski of PhillyVoice. “It’s hard right now to look down the road, but if we had to play this week, Carson would be down. He’d be the third quarterback. He’d be deactivated. That’s probably the direction we’re heading, I would think is going that route. Obviously barring injury and, as you know, how this game is, but typically the third quarterback, whoever that is, is down on game day.”

The Eagles held onto Bradford because they didn’t want to rush Wentz into the lineup and they signed Daniel to give themselves an experienced backup option, which makes it little surprise that they’ll go the patient route with a player who they hope is a fixture in Philly for years to come.