Much like a pitcher in baseball, the Eagles will be looking to monitor the throws quarterback Carson Wentz makes in practice.

We have already seen back-up QB Nick Foles suffer elbow soreness early on in camp. The coaching staff does not want to see the same fate happen to their franchise QB.

“There’s been very close scrutiny on every rep that Carson has taken – number, monitoring, everything,” said offense coordinator Frank Reich during Monday’s press conference. “Not only how many throws, but how many intense throws versus we could stand here and play catch for two hours and our arms won’t get tired.

“So all of that, every throw is looked at, counted, measured. When Nick has been out, we have made sure that his throws didn’t increase. We compensated for that several ways. We’d get in drills, and Coach DeFilippo would do more foot work drills without throwing, so it was all accounted for.”

Last week we saw that the Eagles’ planned on only playing Wentz for 12 snaps at the beginning of last Thursday’s preseason game against the Packers. But it only took Wentz 11 plays to deliver his first touchdown pass of the preseason.

Wentz looked like he was in mid-season form when finding Mack Hollins over the middle during that first drive. We can expect to see limited time from Wentz going forward this preseason.

As for Foles, the team will not rush him back for their preseason game with the Bills this Thursday.

“I would guess they’d kind of phase him back in,” said Reich. “I think he feels, from what I’ve talked to Nick, he said he feels good. So you don’t want to rush it, but at the same time, you want to get him in the action.”