PHILADELPHIA - Eagles running back LeSean McCoy may be asked to take a pay cut next season as the team looks to increase their cap space, according to reports from Philly.com.
The seventh-year back, with a cap number of $11.9 million next season, is the second-highest paid runner in football behind Adrian Peterson ($15.4 m.), and has already said he was not interested in a cut in pay when asked about it earlier this offseason.
And there is talk in Philadelphia that if McCoy's number could not be brought down, he may be cut.
Alongside the $4.1 million due fellow back Darren Sproles, the Eagles backfield is set to deprive the team north of $16 million next year against the cap.
McCoy is willing to restructure his current deal that his cap number would be lessened in the coming season, but also stated clearly that any new deal must involve the same amount of money.
"I know how hard it is to keep a team together, and I want to be part of this team," he told Philly.com last month. "But I don't want to take less money. I want to figure out a way to make it happen [where] we're all together."
Head coach Chip Kelly told WIP radio in December he wants McCoy to remain with the team.
McCoy carried for 1,319 yards and five touchdowns last season, a drop in production from 2013, when he rushed for 1,607 yards and nine scores.
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