Daily News | The Robert Quinn trade is Howie Roseman’s latest smart attempt to win the Eagles another Super Bowl
For the production he gave the Chicago Bears, for the money he was making, Robert Quinn has not been a good player this season. Quinn has been one of the NFL’s elite pass-rushing defensive ends pretty much since he entered the league in 2011. The Bears, his fourth team, had signed him to a reported five-year, $70 million contract in 2020, a deal that paid him $7 million last year and nearly $13 million this year. Last year, he had 18½ sacks. Last year, he was a bargain.
Rather than cut him for nothing, let’s trade him now, ahead of the league’s Nov. 1 deadline, for something.Welcome once more to the world of high finance in pro football. Welcome once more to the world in which Howie Roseman is a king.the Eagles acquired Quinn on Wednesday afternoon