By Tucker Bagley, Sports Talk Philly staff writer 
The final three games of the Eagles 2016 campaign don't really mean much for the franchise. They have virtually no shot at making the postseason and don't possess their own first-round pick, rendering their wins and losses rather inconsequential to the team's short-term plans.
Instead, player evaluation will be the focus of Howie Roseman and Doug Pederson who will try to decide which guys they want to keep as this rebuilding effort keeps moving forward. And these three players' employment status may just hinge on what they are able to prove over the final three weeks of the 2016 season.
Dorial Green-Beckham
2017 Cap Hit: $944,418
Dead Money: $0
The acquisition of Green-Beckham during training camp was unanimously lauded as a low-risk, high-reward move. But instead of growing into his frame and scratching the surface of his immense potential, the second-year wide receiver has seemed rather disinterested in playing the game of football. Green-Beckham has salvaged some horrendous games with garbage time yards, picking up only 73 receiving yards in the Eagles five wins this season.
Pederson has made it clear that something will have to change at the wide receiver position before next season. Due to their cap hits and the team's investment in them, Jordan Matthews and Nelson Agholor are locks, leaving just three or four spots open to competition. If the team decides to pursue a veteran in free agency and draft a guy in the early rounds to shore up the unit, the field will become very crowded for those roster spots.
Green-Beckham hasn't exactly shown a lot of fight as an Eagle, so it will be interesting to see how he responds when his job is on the line. The Eagles wouldn't owe the wide receiver a dime if they cut him, so expect him to get a shot in training camp, but it would be hard for Pederson to cut someone like Paul Turner who can be productive and works hard instead of a player with such tantalizing potential and a low work ethic.
Leodis McKelvin
2017 Cap Hit: $3.2 million
Dead Money: $250,000
The eight-year veteran has been rather inconsistent in his first year with the Eagles. In fact, before a transcendent performance on Sunday against the Washington Redskins, him leaving seemed almost like a foregone conclusion. While injuries have slowed McKelvin down at times in 2016, him being back will end up hinging on whether or not the Eagles see Nolan Carroll as a viable, long-term starter at cornerback.
At 29, Carroll may not fit into the Eagles long-term plans and it seems like he will pursuing other options in the offseason, so McKelvin has that going for him, as well as his relationship with Jim Schwartz. But McKelvin's health has always been a concern and if he is unable to build on the game he had on Sunday, the Eagles may look for a more reliable veteran in their secondary for 2017 and beyond.
Connor Barwin
2017 Cap Hit: $8.35 million
Dead Money: $600,000
Barwin has done so much in the Philadelphia community and remains a fan favorite, but his talents are being wasted in Schwartz's defense. In a league where teams are looking for versatile players who can line up all over the field, Schwartz has confined Barwin to a defensive end spot, handicapping the versatile defender.
Barwin is still third on the Eagles in sacks with four, but his cap hit ranks 10th among all defensive ends for next season. Unless Schwartz starts to use Barwin more creatively, he simply isn't worth that money and the Eagles could use their savings to pursue pass-rushers that are fits for their scheme.
Barwin's role has been diminishing as the season has worn on and his production just doesn't match his price tag and the Eagles could explore a trade early in the offseason if teams are interested in a player who can be so valuable in a 3-4 defense.
