3rd is too much for all that baggage. His confidence has to be shot, he is injury prone, afraid to run, a stigma that he is needs to be coddled/treated like the favorite son, and most of his new teammates probably won't respect him. Late round pick is all he is worth. He is an experiment/reclamation project at this point.
Mostly just posturing from WASH...to only get a late round pick for everything they gave up to get him, I'm sure they don't believe they can get a 3rd or a 4th for him.
And a lot of the same things could have been said about Sanchez whose confidence level was probably even lower.
We don't have a coach or owner who will coddle him.
We do have a coach who has been making it work with subpar turnover prone QBs. And because they are winning, the Eagles won't have the chance, unless they give up everything, to draft a Winston or Mariota.
It comes down to this. Barkley sucks. Sanchez is playing well but again he isn't great. Foles was playing terrible. Despite winning they don't have an answer at QB yet. The team is built to win now. They won't get to draft the top guys. I'd rather the Eagles take a chance on RG3 than draft a QB in the 4th round.
RG3 is only 24 and has all the skill set. He has shown what he can do when confident. If anyone can coach him up I'd imagine it be Chip. We would still have Foles under contract.
All of this assuming Eagles somehow miss the playoffs, Sanchez doesn't improve further, and or bad QB play does them in again in the playoffs.