The Eagles want to keep Jaelan Phillips, and they are “working hard” to ensure that happens.
Ian Rapoport of NFL Media reports that there is “growing optimism” that the sides could complete a deal before free agency.
Phillips, one of 18 free agents the Eagles have, will have a strong market if he hits the market.
Philadelphia traded a 2026 third-round pick to acquire Phillips, and he totaled 28 tackles and two sacks in eight games.
A first-round pick in 2021, Phillips has recorded 205 tackles, 28 sacks, 68 quarterback hits, an interception, two forced fumbles and 11 passes defensed in 63 games. He missed nine games in 2023 and 13 games in 2024 due to injuries.
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During the Scouting Combine in Indianapolis, Eagles G.M. Howie Roseman told PFT Live that he’ll pick up the phone whenever another team calls to talk about trading for one of his players.
The phone reportedly has been ringing about one of them.
Via Jeremy Fowler of ESPN, the Eagles have “received” trade calls about defensive tackle Jalen Carter.
Carter, who slid to No. 9 in the 2023 draft, has played well in three seasons, with a pair of Pro Bowl berths. He also was a second-team All-Pro in 2024, and he finished second in the defensive rookie of the year voting.
He’s under contract through 2026, with the Eagles hold an option for a fifth year. (Thanks to the Pro Bowl berths, his fifth-year option salary has spiked to $27.127 million.)
Whenever word emerges that a team is receiving possible trade calls about any player, there’s an important question to ask: Is the team subtly getting the word out that the player is available, in the hopes of getting more calls and, in turn, driving up the market?
Carter is currently eligible for a new contract. He’s owed $3.723 million for the coming season. With defensive tackle Jordan Davis getting a three-year extension at a new-money average of $26 million per year on Saturday, it’s possible the Eagles have made a choice as to which one of the two will be paid — and which one could be moved.
Eagles defensive tackle Jordan Davis had one year left on his contract. He now has four.
Per multiple reports, the Eagles and Davis have agreed to terms on a three-year, $78 million extension. Of the new, four-year contract, $65 million is guaranteed.
Davis, a first-round pick in 2022, was due to make $12.938 million in 2026, his fifth-year option.
The total, four-year contract will have a value of $90.938 million. The new-money average is $26 million; the average from signing is $22.73 million.
After appearing in 13 games with five starts as a rookie, Davis has started all 17 regular-season games over the past three seasons.
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.
The Texans surprisingly parted ways with quarterbacks coach Jerrod Johnson last week, but Johnson wasn’t out of work for long.
Johnson is joining the Eagles’ coaching staff, according to Mike Garafolo of NFL Network.
It’s still unclear why Johnson departed Houston, and why during the Scouting Combine, which is a rare time for a coach and a team to part ways.
Johnson will join an Eagles offensive coaching staff that head coach Nick Sirianni has shaken up this offseason, firing former offensive coordinator Kevin Patullo and replacing him with Sean Mannion.
If another team wants to make a trade offer for a player on the Eagles, General Manager Howie Roseman will always listen.
Roseman explained on PFT Live that his philosophy is it’s always worthwhile to hear what offers another team is willing to make. Asked if he would hang up if another team’s GM calls to make a trade offer for A.J. Brown, Roseman answered, “I would never do that about anything.”
“Part of our job as a general manager in the National Football League is to listen,” Roseman said. “To listen to what people are willing to do. If you don’t listen you may lose an opportunity to do something. so I don’t want to not listen to anyone calling me on anything because there may be something I say yes to that I wasn’t prepared to say yes to. And if I sit there and someone calls me on anyone and I say I’m not even going to listen, I don’t know what they’re going to offer. And my job is to make the team better. My job is to take 53 guys, build and develop a team that can compete and eventually win a championship. How do you do that? You have to make a lot of decisions to do that. So in the course of that, if there are opportunities that come up that you weren’t prepared for, and you just say, I had this plan and I’m stuck on this plan, I can’t deviate from that plan, I don’t know in my opinion if that’s the best way to run the Philadelphia Eagles.”
For Roseman, there’s no cost to answering the phone, and it can also be good for future planning to learn how highly other teams value his players. Even if a GM has no intention of trading a player, listening to other teams’ trade offers for that player gives the GM an idea of how money other teams would offer that player — and how much the Eagles would need to pay to keep that player — when he hits free agency.
So Roseman will always take the call. About Brown, or about anyone else on the Eagles’ roster.
