Eagles - Banner says Sheppard skipping Eagles workouts wont' force trade

0 Comments | Philadelphia Daily News, June, 2008 | by LES BOWEN bowenl@phillynews.com

SKIPPING the current voluntary full-team workouts will not nudge Lito Sheppard any closer to getting traded, Eagles president Joe Banner said yesterday.

"He will be with us this year," Banner said of Sheppard, who has been seeking a trade because he is dissatisfied with a contract extension he signed 4 years ago, which runs through 2011. The week before the April 26 NFL draft, a Sheppard trade seemed a sure thing, but it didn't happen then - because the Eagles were asking too much, because teams were reluctant to give Sheppard a new, state-of-the-art contract after he missed 14 games the last three seasons, or because of some combination of those reasons - and, apparently, it won't now. Banner said nothing was happening on the Sheppard trade front.

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