Eagles Fly McCoy to Bills for LB Alonso

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Chip Kelly's Eagles have added another Oregon Duck to the roster. This time, it was done in an interesting, rare fashion. The rare player for player NFL trade went down Tuesday evening. The Eagles sent running back Lesean McCoy and his ginormous contract to the Bills for young linebacker Kiko Alonso.

Honestly, this is a head scratcher for me. Buffalo, who had (technically has) the option to keep pending free agent CJ Spiller, chose to
go another route. That route being the uber-talented but insanely pricey McCoy. There's no doubt that McCoy is an upgrade to Spiller but paying McCoy's salary ($11.95 million) is a bad proposition.

Also the guy traded from Buffalo needs to be taken into account. Former Oregon Duck and now former Buffalo Bill Kiko Alonso is one of the best up and coming linebackers. He has future Pro Bowler written all over him if he's healthy.

The young stud will earn less than 800K for his work next season. This trade allows Philly to clear almost $8 million of cap space. There's no doubt in mind who won this transaction. The Oregon Ducks Philadelphia Eagles obviously plan to be extremely aggressive in free agency now having over $40 million in cap room.