“If you draft a player to be a backup, why did you draft him? You're drafting a guy because you think he's worthy of being drafted at that spot, but you're also drafting him because you think he can compete. If you're going to say, 'This guy's a backup,' - really? That doesn't make any sense to me.”

American football coach and former player

Herm Edwards is an American football coach and former NFL cornerback. He played for ten seasons, mostly with the Philadelphia Eagles, and later became a head coach in the league from 2001 to 2008 with the New York Jets and Kansas City Chiefs. After his NFL coaching run, Edwards worked as a football analyst for ESPN from 2009 to 2017. He later returned to the sideline as head coach of the Arizona State Sun Devils from 2018 to 2022, building a career that spans both professional football and college coaching.