Eagles Trying to Make Trade Involving Running Back?

Derek Barnett is now joined by Trey Sermon as Eagles names being gossiped about regarding the trading block.

The Philadelphia Eagles are working toward making their roster decisions on the eve of Tuesday's NFL Cutdown Day deadline to 53 players ... but are also trying to salvage something out of guys who might not make it ... or who might not want to be here.

In that latter category as of Monday comes defensive end Derek Barnett, who has been granted permission to seek out trade options. And in the former category? The running backs room is crowded, and so Trey Sermon is reportedly on the trade block.

Neither player is, frankly, a hot commodity. In the case of Barnett, he's a former first-round pick who hasn't quite panned out. We don't anticipate a "bidding war'' here.

And Sermon? He's just 24, a former third-rounder in the 2021 NFL Draft who spent one year with the San Francisco 49ers before last season joining up with the NFC champion Eagles after being claimed when the Niners released him at the end of their training camp last summer. He has played in 11 games in his career but has just 186 rushing yards and one touchdown.

Sermon had just 30 yards on 16 carries in the preseason finale against the Indianapolis Colts, though he did score his second touchdown of the exhibition season on a 1-yard plunge.

The Eagles let leading rusher Miles Sanders go via free agency (to Carolina) while acquiring D'Andre Swift and Rashaad Penny to join Kenneth Gainwell in the backfield. That leaves little room for Sermon, who seems most likely to be grabbed by interested teams only after/if he's cut by the Eagles.

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