Philadelphia Eagles president Joe Banner would not confirm that the team received an offer of a first-round pick for quarterback Kevin Kolb, but did not that the market for Kolb is more aggressive this off-season, Jeff McLane of the Philadelphia Inquirer reports.
"You can figure if there's a quarterback that a number of teams are interested in, you're going to end up with some meaningful compensation," Banner said Monday. "You can kind of figure out what that means and speculate from there. That's the situation we're in."
Banner confirmed to McLane that the teams interested a year ago "remain interested" in Kolb.
The Cleveland Browns, which filled its front office and scouting staff last off-season with former Eagles employees, and Seattle Seahawks reportedly made offers for Kolb last off-season, but were rebuffed.
"But the pool of teams interested in him is much bigger this year, by the dynamic of how many teams need a quarterback and how few other options there are to get one," Banner added. "There were a group of teams that last year tried to get by with OK quarterback situations and it didn't work out very well at all - all the West Coast teams, the Carolinas, the Miamis."
The Minnesota Vikings, who pick 12th overall in April, are also in need of a quarterback, and head coach Leslie Frazier discussed the Vikings' interest in Kolb at this morning's breakfast.
"He’s a good young quarterback," Frazier said of Kolb according to Judd Zulgad of the Minneapolis Star Tribune. "There’s a reason that they had him slated as the number one guy going into training camp and they made the trade letting Donovan [McNabb] move on. They saw some things in him they really liked, and I respect Andy [Reid] and their staff tremendously.
"So you’d have to consider a guy like Kevin if he becomes available. He’ll be part of the conversation, as well if that were to occur. Right now, there is no free agency, there are no trade talks but we’re going to talk internally about a bunch of different scenarios and just talk about players throughout our league."
source: Mac's Football Blog
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