Every NFL team’s most surprising cut candidate

Philadelphia Eagles — Quez Watkins

With so many stars, one would assume there are surprise cuts across the Philadelphia Eagles roster. Surprisingly, there isn’t a lot of fat to cut here. If the Eagles won the Super Bowl, then maybe there would be a change. They wouldn’t be all in. Unfortunately for the City of Brotherly Love, the Eagles blew a big lead and dropped a championship attempt to Patrick Mahomes.

So, looking at the roster, Quez Watkins makes the most sense as a “surprise” cut candidate. Trey Sermon seems like a pretty good bet to get cut, so Watkins at least comes with a slight surprise element.

Olamide Zaccheaus is providing competition for Watkins in training camp. Some Eagles players, including Jalen Hurts, have shown excitement for Watkins, but we’ve seen it at this time of the year. That doesn’t always translate to saved jobs come August and September.

Watkins is coming off a down year, and he has a contract decision for Eagles brass. If he doesn’t come out of the blocks running in training camp and preseason, he might find himself on another roster come Week 1. He could absolutely earn a spot on this roster, and maybe it was just a down year, but he has to prove he can bounce back to go on another Super Bowl journey.