The Jets will not tender restricted free agent John Metchie, according to Jordan Schultz of The Schultz Report.
That will make Metchie a free agent.
The Texans selected Metchie with the 44th overall pick in 2022, but he missed his rookie season. While working his back back from an ACL tear, Metchie was diagnosed with leukemia.
Metchie, 25, caught 40 passes for 412 yards and a touchdown in 2023-24 in Houston before the Texans traded him to the Eagles for Harrison Bryant and a swap of third-round picks in training camp last summer.
At the trade deadline in 2025, the Eagles shipped him to the Jets in exchange for Michael Carter II and a late-round 2027 swap. He caught 29 passes for 256 yards and two touchdowns in nine games for the Jets last season after making four receptions for 18 yards in seven games with the Eagles.
Would the Eagles trade wide receiver A.J. Brown? Maybe, if another team offers them a first-round pick, a second-round pick and a player.
The Eagles want a “Quinnen Williams-type deal” for Brown, according to Mike Garafolo of NFL Network.
Williams was traded from the Jets to the Cowboys last season for a 2026 second-round pick, a 2027 first-round pick and defensive tackle Mazi Smith.
In other words, Roseman wants more for Brown in 2026 than he had to give up to acquire Brown from the Titans in 2022. On draft day that year, the Eagles sent a first-round pick and a third-round pick to the Titans for Brown.
Complicating matters is that it would cost the Eagles more on this year’s salary cap to trade Brown than to keep him. The cap charge for trading Brown would mean losing more than $20 million in salary cap space. If you’re going to lose both your top wide receiver and a lot of salary cap space, you’d better be getting a lot in return.
So far, teams are not making the kinds of offers the Eagles want. Unless that changes, Brown is staying put.
Eagles tight end Dallas Goedert is set to hit free agency for the first time in his career.
Mike Garafolo of NFL Media reports that the Eagles are interested in re-signing Goedert, and the sides will continue to talk. The Eagles, though, have several contracts they are dealing with, including the future of wide receiver A.J. Brown, that might affect their budgeting.
Goedert ranks 49th on PFT’s top-100 free agents list.
He had career-highs with 60 catches and 11 touchdowns and had 591 yards in 15 games.
In his eight seasons, all with the Eagles, Goedert has 409 receptions for 4,676 yards and 35 touchdowns.
The asking price is known. The outcome isn’t.
Where will defensive end Maxx Crosby play next?
DraftKings has the Bears as the +200 favorites to secure his services via trade with the Raiders. Staying put with the Raiders is a +350 proposition.
Five teams are clustered at +700: the Rams (Fuck Them Picks, Part Two), Cowboys, Bills, Ravens, and Eagles.
The Patriots land at +1000, with the Lions and Buccaneers at +1200.
The Raiders, as PFT reported last week, want two first-round picks and a player for Crosby. Crosby, as Jay Glazer said during Super Bowl week, is “done” with the Raiders.
Whether this saga is done remains to be seen. Although no trades can become official until next Wednesday at 4:00 p.m. ET, teams can reach tentative agreements now.
The Eagles have added a defensive lineman to their offseason roster.
The team announced the signing of Ta’Quon Graham on Monday afternoon.
Graham was a 2021 fifth-round pick of the Falcons and he re-signed with the team last year. He was placed on injured reserve to open the season, but returned to play in two games before being released in November. He signed to the Eagles’ practice squad after that, but did not appear in any more games.
Graham played in 51 games overall with the Falcons. He had 88 tackles, a forced fumble, a fumble recovery, and a sack in those appearances.
