Despite Jalen Reagor ending up on the Eagles’ 53-man roster Tuesday, he will not play a third season with the team. The Vikings will acquire the former first-round pick, Adam Schefter of ESPN.com tweets.
Philly is parting ways with the third-year wideout for a 2023 seventh-round pick and a conditional 2024 pick. The latter selection will either be a fourth- or fifth-rounder. Reagor came up in trade rumors fairly consistently this offseason, and the Eagles are moving on. Two years remain on Reagor’s rookie deal.
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Two years ago, the Eagles faced a decision between TCU’s Reagor and LSU’s Justin Jefferson. The room was believed to be split, but Reagor won out. The Vikings took Jefferson. That move worked out pretty well. Minnesota, which has seen Jefferson rocket to the Pro Bowl tier quickly, now has both the 2020 first-rounders.
Reagor will be expected to fill in behind the likes of Jefferson and Adam Thielen. The Vikings also have 2020 draftee K.J. Osborn, who is ticketed to again be their No. 3 wideout. The Vikings did just lose Bisi Johnson to a season-ending ACL tear.
Although Reagor showed some promise in his third Eagles training camp, he has come in far below expectations during game action. Reagor failed to exceed 400 receiving yards in each of his two seasons, missing time with an injury as a rookie and seeing the Eagles add at the position (DeVonta Smith) and shift to a run-heavy attack in 2021. Philly made a considerable effort to upgrade its receiving corps this year. After pursuing Christian Kirk and Allen Robinson, the Eagles acquired A.J. Brown during the draft and gave him a monster guarantee. The addition of former Nick Sirianni Colts charge Zach Pascal may have made a bigger impact on Reagor’s standing.
For his career, Reagor has 64 receptions for 699 yards and three touchdowns. Inconsistency has plagued the second-generation NFLer, however, and the Vikings will try to coax supporting-cast production from the once-coveted Big 12 prospect. Reagor, 23, delivered his best college season as a sophomore — a 1,061-yard, nine-touchdown campaign — before posting 611 yards in 12 junior-year games. The 5-foot-11 talent, who ran a 4.47-second 40-yard dash at the 2020 Combine, still became a top receiver prize in a loaded draft, going 21st overall.
Teetering on the bust cliff, Reagor should at least enjoy a friendlier situation in Minnesota. Carson Wentz struggled mightily during his final Philly season, and Jalen Hurts‘ first starter year turned the Eagles into a smashmouth force. Kirk Cousins certainly is not a top-tier quarterback, but he has proven more consistent as a passer than the QBs Reagor has played with as an Eagle. New Vikes HC Kevin O’Connell will attempt to salvage the downtrodden target.
So now he and Jefferson are on the same team lmao eagles suck
Friend Howie is a wizard,best offseason in the NFL. Top roster in the NFL. Go to pro football talk with your gibberish.
Coming from a Padres fan
They have a ton of WS trophies !
Sending Reagor to play alongside Justin Jefferson is a perfect last rubbing of salt in Eagles fans’ wound. But hey, at least angry Philadelphians are free of both Reagor and Arcega-Whiteside now.
The Eagles traded JJAW to DK Metcalf’s team and Reagor to Justin Jefferson’s team.
Wild! I hadn’t thought of that. I guess I hope they’re buddies from the combine?
The Metcalf slide is even wilder. Jefferson is phenomenal, but of the four receivers taken ahead of him, you can understand why at the very least Lamb and Jeudy went ahead of him at the time. In Metcalf’s case, even at the time, it was bonkers for most of those eight(!) receivers to go ahead of him, and JJAW was hardly the most egregious one.
Ridiculous comment. Why would Howie rub salt in his own teams so called wound pugslie. Idiotic comment, oooooooof is correct.
I didn’t mean it as something that would be purposeful, genius. And my comment was more about Eagles fans on here being overly scornful of the Reagor pick than anything.
Try not speaking for eagle fans Dudley,you failed miserably. Your tongue in cheek failed.
I wasn’t trying to speak for Eagles fans. I was poking a little fun at the crankiest ones. Maybe you should take a deep breath and try not to be one of them.
Good luck in Minnesota Reagor.
The Eagles give up on a WR they drafted 2 years ago in the 1st round. Either he’s a severe head case or the eagles management is that incompetent
Hard to call Eagles management incompetent after the offseason they’ve had, not to mention winning seasons in 4 of the 6 seasons since Roseman took over from the Kelly mess. Teams have draft picks go wrong. The smart ones move on in a clear-eyed way. The Reagor miss is pretty lousy, but they have an enviable receiving corps now.
He was terrible. Not only did he not make plays he made huge negative plays. Terrible draft choice but it was time to cut their losses. He was taking up a valuable roster spot…addition by subtraction. So glad to see him go.
The Raiders give up on a OL they drafted 1 years ago in the 1st round. Either he’s a severe head case or the Raiders management is that incompetent
There I fixed it for you
I was going to comment the same thing but then realized it’s not a rub since the Raiders management is in fact incompetent.
Finally ! Addition by subtraction. Who’s the returner now?
Seems likely Watkins will be part of the answer. Covey did most of their preseason returning, but didn’t make the 53.
I suspect more changes to the 53 are coming soon.
Taylor is also gone. It’ll be interesting to see if they resign Cain ( the best receiver) Allen ( the fastest ) or Covey ( the best return man) .
Reagor was a combine hype player because he had good tape against crappy teams and some returns. He got shut down against teams like Baylor/Oklahoma and the knock on him was he couldn’t get off against bigger corners..guess what the NFL has.
And Jefferson would’ve gone way higher if LSU hadn’t mostly kept him in the slot. Of course, you can’t blame them for treating some guy named Chase as their best outside threat.
Good move for the Eagles for certain. I like what your gm does, the players he selects. He got 2 draft picks for a guy that wasn’t significantly in the plans. I REALLY wanted the Vikings to draft Jordan Davis. Good luck Eagles. Win the NFCE.
I like this move for the Vikings, dude is talented but obviously hasn’t put it all together. The reason I like the move is just in comparison to how the previous Vikings management would handle filling depth WR positions by just signing a mediocre vet who might have had one decent year, whether it was Dede Westbrook, Kendall Wright, Tajae Sharp. This management group actually went out and got a guy with some upside, if he sucks like the other names I listed oh well but at least there’s something here to work with. Oh and I bet this trade doesn’t happen if Bisi stayed healthy.
Reagor was a disaster in Philly. Maybe a lot of it was in his head and a change of scenery will revive his career but I’m oh so happy to see him gone from the Eagles.
If nothing else this sets up a nice storyline for MNF in week 2 when the Vikings and Eagles go head to head.
If he is the number 4 or 5 WR for MN at the time it will not really be much of a story.
Does anyone know what criteria of stats Reagor must reach for the pick to stay a 4th Rounder ?