ESPN’s Adam Schefter is reporting that the Buffalo Bills and Philadelphia Eagles are going to consummate a trade to send Eagles perennial Pro Bowl running back LeSean McCoy to Buffalo in exchange for linebacker Kiko Alonso.

On paper, this deal makes little sense for each party and upon further review it makes even less sense.

Eagles head coach and now pseudo-GM Chip Kelly gets reunited (we’re hoping it feels good) with his former Oregon linebacker and says goodbye to the fastest player on the team.

Unfortunately for Kelly, Alonso is far from a sure thing as he missed all of 2014 with a torn ACL.  Although the Eagles need as much help as they can get on defense (they finished 28th in the league in 2014), a middle linebacker is rarely a difference maker in today’s NFL unless it’s a Patrick Willis type of player, which Alonso clearly isn’t.

From the Bills perspective, new head coach Rex Ryan gets to “Ground and Pound” with LeSean McCoy.  McCoy had a “down year” with 1,319 yards and just five touchdowns in 2014.  At 5-foot-11, 208 pounds, McCoy has a somewhat slight frame for the pounding that he’s likely to get in Rex Ryan’s offense.

With a draft that seems loaded at running back, the Bills could have seemingly acquired a player at least four years younger, who will make a fraction of McCoy’s $9.75 million base salary.

Former Eagles tackle Todd Herremans was asked about McCoy’s salary on 97.5 The Fanatic.

“For how much money?” Herremans said. “For his contract? Hooof. I hope so for his sake. (Laughs). I don’t know.”

He was asked about a restructure?

“I think they could find something to work out like that. I guess it all just depends on how bad Chip Kelly wants him, and if he thinks he’s that instrumental in his offense. If he feels he can get somebody cheaper and just plug him and still get production, then…we’ll see.”

So it seems as if the Eagles traded their best offensive player for a middle linebacker coming off a torn ACL and the Bills traded a solid linebacker for a seemingly overpriced running back that you can find in free agency or the draft.