Eagles QB Carson Wentz “Very Confident” He’ll Be Ready For Week 1

Eagles QB Carson Wentz (ACL) said Monday during an appearance on “Good Morning Football” that he’s “very confident‘ he’ll be ready to go for the start of the regular season.

“Rehab has been great. Obviously, it’s not fun. It’s quite the process. It can be painful some days,” Wentz said, via NFL.com. “But so far everything is going well. Where I’m at I’m very confident. My goal is to be ready Week 1.”

Wentz says that even after the injury, he isn’t going to change how aggressive he is as a player.

“As far as changing as a player, there’s just things that I’ll continue to learn through my whole career,” Wentz said. “There’s times when you look back on the tape and maybe I should have avoided that (hit), know when to cut your losses. But overall, as an aggressive player, I’m not going to change, so to speak. I’m not going to let this slow me down going forward. I truly believe I’ll come back stronger than ever. Especially having to miss the playoffs, miss the Super Bowl. As exciting as it was there was just that little uneasiness inside of me to have to miss those games. I truly believe I’ll be back stronger than ever and I’m not too worried about it going forward.”

As for potential issues between him and Nick Foles, Wentz is confident that it won’t come to that, due in large part to their friendship.

“I think Nick and I, just from the outside world you’d think there could be some potential ruffled feathers and different things going on,” Wentz said. “But the way Nick and I have handled just our relationship, the basis of our relationship is we’re friends first and foremost before we’re teammates. So that’s made things so much easier to just root each other on and just have complete confidence in each other. We both know kind of where we’re at and what going forward is going to look like. So I’m really confident that there’ll be no issues with that. I love Nick and we both understand kind of the nature of this business and the outset of this team and the future. So we’re excited. And I’m excited he’s still here.”

Wentz was a clear MVP candidate at the time he was placed on injured reserve in December.

Wentz, 25, is a former first-round pick of the Eagles back in 2016. He’s currently in the third year of his four-year, $26.7 million contract that included a $16.7 million signing bonus.

Wentz stands to make base salaries of $2.87 million and $4.08 million over the next two years of the agreement.

In 2017, Wentz appeared in 13 games for the Eagles and threw for 3,296 yards while completing 60.2 percent of his passes to go along with 33 touchdowns and seven interceptions. He also rushed for 299 yards.

We’ll have more regarding Wentz as the news is available.