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Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

The DiCecco Daily: Going Inside Eagles Trade For WR John Metchie III

Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

Inside The Birds

Sports, Football

4.8868 Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

ITB's Eagles beat reporter Andrew DiCecco gives his insights and observations from covering the Eagles on a daily basis.

In this episode, he explains the trade for former Texans WR Johnny Metchie and why the Eagles made it.

Transcript

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0:00.0

What's happening, everybody?

0:11.2

Welcome into this edition of DeCecho Daily.

0:14.3

Andrew DeCechko here with an impromptu daily podcast.

0:19.0

It's never quiet in Eagles land.

0:23.8

And on Sunday afternoon, the Eagles in general manager, Howie Roseman, were aggressive. They pulled the trigger, acquiring wide receiver,

0:30.0

John Mechie, the third from the Houston Texans. And the compensation is the Eagles receive

0:36.5

wide receiver John Mechie the third and a sixth round pick.

0:39.8

And the Texans receive tight end Harrison Bryant and a fifth round pick.

0:45.2

But what's interesting is that Mechie the third now adds to a very deep wide receiver room.

0:52.3

And really there's a logjam of players you can make a case for

0:55.7

making the Eagles 53 man roster. Behind A.J. Brown, Devante Smith and Jehan Dodson. There's second

1:02.7

year wide receiver Johnny Wilson, who's really come on as of late using his size to his

1:08.0

advantage. He's a player the Eagles like. He offers blocking upside. I don't believe

1:12.8

that this impacts him in any way. There's also another second year wide receiver to Anaya Smith,

1:17.8

who has punt return upside, not to mention Terrace Marshall Jr., who's a veteran, and he's had

1:24.0

some bright moments in training camp. There's Darius Cooper, the emerging rookie wide receiver who's sort of really taken his

1:31.4

opportunity and run with it this summer.

1:34.1

And he has had some really good moments.

1:36.1

The Eagles are now giving him special teams opportunities and they seem to like what

1:40.4

they've seen there.

1:41.8

So it's a really crowded receiving core, and it's difficult to

1:47.0

depict where METI, the third, is going to fit in. And look, Howie Roseman has proven time and

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