PHILADELPHIA — Howie Roseman leaned forward and grabbed the microphone. The Philadelphia Eagles general manager was fielding a question Tuesday about A.J. Brown’s future, and Roseman had a question of his own.

“What do you think the odds are that I’m answering this question any different than I’ve answered it anywhere else?” Roseman asked. “Do you think that’s 50%? Do you think that’s 75%?”

To be fair, the context has changed a bit since Roseman was asked about Brown’s future with the team two weeks ago at the league meetings in Arizona. The Eagles on Friday traded two draft picks to Green Bay for Dontayvion Wicks and then signed Wicks to a one-year contract extension. That came after they signed Hollywood Brown and Elijah Moore in free agency to add to the depth at wide receiver.

The question Roseman didn’t let fully finish also was about his comfortability with the depth at receiver if A.J. Brown is traded, but Roseman’s answer didn’t change from what he said in Arizona.

“A.J. Brown is an Eagle,” he said.

It’s a topic that will continue to follow Roseman as Brown’s uncertain future with the team lingers and probably will continue to linger considering the dangling date of June 1 off in the distance. The Eagles could spread out his dead salary-cap hit over two seasons if they trade him after that date rather than taking it all on for 2026.

As the depth chart stands now, Wicks seemingly slots in behind A.J. Brown and DeVonta Smith as the No. 3 receiver, although Hollywood Brown figures to compete for touches, too. Wicks, Roseman said, is a player the Eagles have followed closely. They’ve gotten to see him up close a few times, with the Eagles and Packers playing three times since Wicks was drafted in the fifth round out of Virginia in 2023.

“He’s a physical, explosive player at the top of routes,” Roseman said. “He can play inside or out.”

Roseman said his studies of the league revealed teams stockpiling more talent and deeper receiving units.

“That was one of the priorities going into this offseason, increasing the depth and the quality of talent in the receiver room throughout the room,” Roseman said. “That really fit for us. Really excited to get Tay here and think he’s an arrow-up guy.”

Roseman said he and Nick Sirianni spent part of their flight to Arizona watching tape of Wicks, who turns 25 in June and has 108 catches for 1,328 yards and 11 touchdowns in three seasons playing for a Packers team with multiple pass-catching weapons. At one point, Roseman said he climbed over the person sitting next to Sirianni to show him a play.

“I think his toughness really shows up on tape,” Sirianni said. “When you can create that type of separation, we obviously get really excited about that.”

If Roseman wasn’t willing to talk about Wicks’ acquisition in the context of Brown’s future, what about next week’s draft? Receiver has been a somewhat popular position for the Eagles in some mock drafts.

The draft, Roseman said, is “its own entity.”

“The biggest mistake we can make is assuming we know what the team is going to look like a year from now, two years from now, and missing out on a player because we have a perceived need and then we don’t fill the need because the player is not good enough,” Roseman said.

“Nothing that we’ve done up until this point will affect the evaluations that we have on draft day.”

Can he say the same for the evaluation of A.J. Brown’s future?

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