The Eagles season came to an end without a playoff spot, but running back LeSean McCoy finished with a 99-yard effort to help beat the Giants in Week 17.
That left McCoy with 1,319 rushing yards for the season, the second-best total of both his career and his two years playing for head coach Chip Kelly. Given the team’s frequently toasted secondary and turnover issues at quarterback, it would seem that McCoy’s future with the organization would be low on the list of things to worry about heading into the offseason even with some questions early in the season about a drop in production.
After the game, though, McCoy sounded like a man who wasn’t totally convinced that he’d be back in Philadelphia for the 2015 season. McCoy is set to make $9.75 million next year with a cap charge north of $11 million, but said that he’s open to discussions about restructuring the deal because he wants to remain with the team.
“The season just ended, and . . . I’m an Eagle. I love it here,” McCoy said, via the Philadelphia Inquirer. “My six years here have been excellent. I’ve been very, very, very productive here. I have a great relationship with my coaches, the owner. We’ll see what happens. It’s a business. Anything can happen; I know that. But I’m sure we can work something out. And hopefully, everything does work out. They know how I feel about them. I know how they feel about me. So we’ll see what happens. At the end of the day, it’s a business.”
The Eagles spent all season plugging holes along their offensive line, something that certainly impacted McCoy individually and the offense as a whole over the course of the season. That doesn’t mean that McCoy won’t be reworking his deal in the coming months, but Kelly said on WIP Monday that he wants McCoy back and a parting of the ways would be a much bigger surprise that last offseason’s jettisoning of DeSean Jackson.