Eagles Mailbag: Which players will be Eagles in 2025?

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We took the first half of your questions Friday. They were about Dallas Goedert, Carson Wentz and the next guy in line for a contract extension (see story)

Part 2 today: 

https://twitter.com/DrewTweetsNow/status/1040273590422315008

Drew always has these tough hypotheticals. I imagine he’s been filing all these and in the year 2030, he will prove to everyone that I’m an idiot. OK, back to the question. That’s a long time. Seven years in the NFL is an eternity; it’s wayyy longer than the average NFL career.

These three: Wentz, Sidney Jones, Jake Elliott.

Wentz is the most obvious one. If he’s the franchise quarterback, the Eagles are going to pay him whatever it takes to keep him for as long as he’s on the top of his game. For the next one, I was going to go with Jones or Derek Barnett because both are just 22. I went with Jones. I think he’s the real deal and will be here for a long time. The last one was kind of a cop out. Sorry. But if he's good, the Eagles will have no reason to get rid of him for years.

We’ve seen this from Doug Pederson over the past few seasons. He seems to get enamored with Darren Sproles at times and makes him a bigger part of the offense than he probably should be. I think some of that in the opener was not wanting to push Jay Ajayi too early because of that foot injury. 

But Ajayi looks healthy and he’s their best running back. He still led the team in carries and tied for the lead in snaps. Ajayi is going to be the team’s No. 1 back this season. There will still be a rotation, but he’s going to carry the load. He’s already on pace for a near-1,000-yard season and I expect Ajayi’s workload to increase. 

They can be really good. I know that’s probably simpler than you wanted, but they can be and should be really good. Jordan Hicks means a lot to the Eagles’ defense. And even though Nigel Bradham had a great year as the signal-caller, having Hicks back will allow him to think less and play faster. And it’s no coincidence Hicks always seems to be in the right spot to make a big play. He’s a really smart player.

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