Sal Paolantonio tells Mike & Mike the quarterback competition between Sam Bradford and whoever the Eagles take with the No. 2 pick in the NFL draft will become a soap opera. (1:40)

PHILADELPHIA -- Jon Gruden sees a potential problem for the Philadelphia Eagles.

Gruden knows all the people involved. Long before he was ESPN’s Monday Night Football analyst, he worked with Andy Reid in Green Bay. He was offensive coordinator of the Eagles before going on to become a head coach in Tampa Bay and Oakland.

Gruden has the same agent as Reid, Doug Pederson and Howie Roseman, the Eagles’ executive vice president of football operations. And he also knows quarterbacks, having conducted his Jon Gruden’s Quarterback Camp program on ESPN before the past seven NFL drafts.

Gruden is high on Carson Wentz, the quarterback the Eagles are likely to select after trading up for the No. 2 pick in next week’s draft. The problem is that the Eagles already signed a couple of quarterbacks back in March.

After calling Pederson a “quarterback-friendly” coach, Gruden pivoted.

“The problem I see right now in Philadelphia is they have too many quarterbacks to be friendly with,” Gruden said Thursday. “How are they going to distribute any reps and get anybody ready when you’ve got Sam Bradford making $18 million, you got Chase Daniel, who’s a backup, making $7 million?

“Now you’re going to have the No. 2 pick in the draft. I don’t know how you’re going to get these guys all reps and get them all ready, but Doug Pederson will have to answer that. That will be a challenge.”

Ironically, the Eagles created the potential problem by stockpiling quarterbacks after firing head coach Chip Kelly. Under Kelly, the Eagles ran an uptempo offense in practice as well as games. Practice reps were increased because of the tempo and because Kelly didn’t spend time on the field correcting mistakes. That was reserved for post-practice meetings.

Pederson’s offense is derived from Reid’s which, like Gruden’s, comes from Mike Holmgren’s version of Bill Walsh’s original West Coast system. It is more complex than Kelly’s, which had to be fairly limited because of the demands of playing with tempo.

Meanwhile, practice time is limited by the terms of the 2011 NFL collective bargaining agreement.

“That’s the biggest challenge that they’re going to have,” Gruden said. “When you look at the amount of reps that you can have with your team, that number is substantially less than it was five years ago with this new collective bargaining agreement.

“So you’ve got to get a new head coach, who is running a new offensive system -- you’d better get it in quickly because the games are about to start. So who’s going to get the reps and who’s going to get the leftovers?

“You don’t have time to get three guys reps. You just don’t. If you do, then you’re not running a real sophisticated offense. It’s hard enough to get one guy ready today, let alone two.”

That may shed some light on Pederson’s wish to sign Daniel, his backup for three seasons in Kansas City. Daniel knows the offense well enough to be able to get by without as much practice time.

But Gruden did suggest a possible solution.

“There could be a trade,” he said, without mentioning Bradford specifically. “I don’t want to start any rumors in Philadelphia, but if they do draft a quarterback, with all they have invested in him, I’m sure they want to get him as many reps as possible.

“That’s going to make somebody unhappy and perhaps expendable.”