The Philadelphia Eagles’ Tremendous Bowl season is over and the 2025 NFL offseason is formally right here. We’re persevering with our Eagles roster outlook collection by inspecting the defensive deal with place. PREVIOUSLY: Quarterback | Operating again | Tight finish | Broad receiver | Offensive deal with | Offensive guard | Middle | Edge rusher.
THE PLAYERS
JALEN CARTER
STATS: 831 snaps, 42 whole tackles, 4.5 sacks, 12 TFLs, 2 compelled fumbles, 16 QB hits, 52 QB hurries, 6 cross deflections
PLAYOFF STATS: 237 snaps, 11 whole tackles, 2 sacks, 2 TFLs, 1 compelled fumble, 7 QB hits, 16 QB hurries, 2 cross deflections
REVIEW: Previous to the 2024 season, BGN’s Jonny Web page wrote about how Carter had Defensive Participant of the 12 months upside. That dominant capacity was totally on show within the Eagles’ Week 3 win over the New Orleans Saints, the place Carter completely wrecked their total offense. Carter continued to excel over the course of the season, usually drawing additional consideration that created one-on-one alternatives for his teammates. For his efforts, Carter made his first profession Professional Bowl along with being named second-team All-Professional. Carter was liable for arguably the largest two play sequence from the Eagles’ Tremendous Bowl season when he sacked Matthew Stafford after which pressured the Los Angeles Rams quarterback into an incompletion for a game-sealing turnover on downs within the Divisional Spherical. The Eagles had been by no means in additional hazard of shedding within the playoffs than they had been earlier than Carter saved the day. One other facet of Carter’s spectacular season is how usually he performed. Vic Fangio rode him exhausting; Carter logged 79.4% of the Eagles’ whole defensive snaps. In contrast, he solely performed 563 snaps for 48.5% as a rookie.
OUTLOOK: Carter is at the moment signed via 2026 and the Eagles have a fifth-year choice they will train for 2027. If Carter continues to progress as a game-wrecking pressure, he very properly may be DPOY as quickly as subsequent season. And he’ll seemingly be one of many highest paid defenders within the NFL when he turns into eligible for a contract extension subsequent yr.
MY TAKE: Keep.
Ballot
Jalen Carter: Keep or go?
MILTON WILLIAMS
STATS: 501 snaps, 24 whole tackles, 5 sacks, 7 TFLs, 1 compelled fumble, 10 QB hits, 39 QB hurries, 1 cross deflection
PLAYOFF STATS: 153 snaps, 7 whole tackles, 2 sacks, 2 TFLs, 1 compelled fumble, 2 QB hits, 11 QB hurries, 2 cross deflections
REVIEW: Williams had an important coaching camp and that offseason success carried over into the common season. With Carter usually drawing additional consideration, Williams crushed his one-on-one alternatives to log a profession excessive in sacks. Williams completed the season robust by shining in Tremendous Bowl LIX with two sacks (together with a strip-sack on Patrick Mahomes) and two TFLs.
OUTLOOK: If the wage cap didn’t exist, the Eagles conserving Williams can be a no brainer. He’s an ascending defensive lineman who solely turns 26 in April. He’s extraordinarily athletic. He’s solely missed one sport in his total profession. Williams deserves to receives a commission … and he seemingly will. However provided that the Eagles have restricted sources to work with, I simply don’t assume spending them on Williams is the best play for them. With studies that Osa Odighizuwa, who’s in an analogous place to Williams, may make over $21 million per yr … Williams is about to get PAID. Once more, I consider Williams has earned his cash. However this can be a man who had half of a sack in 2023. He performed higher than that quantity would counsel, to be clear. However Williams isn’t a participant the Eagles MUST preserve. Particularly when 1) there are different defensive tackles who can excel enjoying subsequent to Carter, 2) the Eagles have a possible in-house alternative for Williams in Moro Ojomo, and three) the 2025 NFL Draft is loaded with DT expertise. It’s unlucky the Eagles can’t preserve Williams however letting him stroll is the best name for them. His departure will assist the Birds relating to buying compensatory picks within the 2026 NFL Draft.
MY TAKE: Go.
Ballot
Milton Williams: Keep or go?
JORDAN DAVIS
STATS: 388 snaps, 27 whole tackles, 1 sack, 3 TFLs, 0 compelled fumbles, 1 QB hit, 12 QB hurries, 2 cross deflections
PLAYOFF STATS: 57 snaps, 6 whole tackles, 2 sacks, 2 TFLs, 0 compelled fumbles, 2 QB hits, 3 QB hurries, 1 cross deflection
REVIEW: After logging 519 snaps (45%) in 2023, Davis solely logged 388 snaps (37%) this season. Together with the playoffs, the 2022 first-round choose performed the fourth-most snaps of any Eagles defensive deal with. Davis’ impression arguably goes past the field rating since he’s usually tasked with consuming house. And he really did present up with some massive performs within the stat sheet in the course of the postseason; he doubled his sack whole from the common season.
OUTLOOK: Declaring Davis a bust is clearly too harsh. However it’s honest to say he hasn’t precisely lived as much as excessive expectations related to being the No. 13 general choose. It’ll be very attention-grabbing to see how the Eagles deal with his contract scenario transferring ahead. 2025 is the final yr of Davis’s rookie contract however the Eagles should resolve to train his fifth-year choice or not by the Could 1 deadline. In the event that they do choose it up, they’ll be handing over a completely assured $11.7 million worth to Davis for the 2026 season. That’s some huge cash for a participant who was principally DT4 this previous season. And based mostly on that utilization, it doesn’t seem to be Vic Fangio goes to massively increase his position transferring ahead.
MY TAKE: Keep.
Ballot
Jordan Davis: Keep or go?
MORO OJOMO
STATS: 388 snaps, 20 whole tackles, 0 sacks, 0 TFLs, 0 compelled fumble, 5 QB hits, 33 QB hurries, 0 cross deflections
PLAYOFF STATS: 102 snaps, 7 whole tackles, 1 sack, 2 TFLs, 0 compelled fumbles, 1 QB hit, 7 QB hurries, 0 cross deflections
REVIEW: Ojomo went from solely enjoying 68 snaps as a rookie in 2023 to being DT3/DT4 in 2024. He performed the identical quantity of standard season snaps as Davis and he performed greater than Davis within the playoffs. Ojomo was extra disruptive than zero sacks would point out; he ranked twentieth out of 119 inside defenders in Professional Soccer Focus’s Cross Rush Productiveness charge.
OUTLOOK: With Williams more likely to go away in free company, there’s a possibility for Ojomo to have an even bigger position in 12 months 3. There’s motive to consider he could make one other leap in his improvement.
MY TAKE: Keep.
Ballot
Moro Ojomo: Keep or go?
THOMAS BOOKER
STATS: 166 snaps, 18 whole tackles, 1 sack, 2 TFLs, 0 compelled fumbles, 2 QB hits, 3 QB hurries, 1 cross deflection
PLAYOFF STATS: 11 snaps
REVIEW: After initially becoming a member of Philly’s apply squad in 2023, Booker signed a futures contract to spend the 2024 offseason with the Eagles. As soon as thought of a protracted shot to make the crew, Booker performed properly sufficient final summer time to earn a roster spot as a depth defensive deal with. Though he solely performed sparingly, he did do some good issues every time he was on the sector.
OUTLOOK: Booker is signed via 2025. I feel it’s honest to consider the 25-year-old would possibly be capable of tackle an even bigger position within the Eagles’ DT rotation. On the very least, he may very well be a very good DT5 to have round once more subsequent season.
MY TAKE: Keep.
Ballot
Thomas Booker: Keep or go?
BYRON YOUNG
REVIEW: The Eagles claimed Byron Younger off waivers in late August and waived Marlon Tuipulotu in favor of him. Younger was a wholesome scratch for each sport till the Eagles positioned him on injured reserve in late October. The crew opened Younger’s apply window in early January to permit him to take reps for 3 weeks. They by no means appeared intent on really including him again to the roster.
OUTLOOK: The Eagles added Younger — the No. 70 general choose from the 2023 NFL Draft — as a result of they worth the 24-year-old’s potential. In his first offseason with the Eagles, Younger may have a possibility to show he deserves to make the common season roster, seemingly as DT5 or DT6. Not going to imagine he sticks round however it’s potential he does.
MY TAKE: Go.
Ballot
Byron Younger: Keep or go?
GABE HALL
REVIEW: The Eagles initially signed Corridor as an undrafted rookie free agent following the 2024 NFL Draft. He spent the whole season on the apply squad earlier than signing to the Eagles’ offseason roster after Tremendous Bowl LIX.
OUTLOOK: Corridor shall be combating an uphill battle to make the Eagles’ 2025 common season roster however he’ll get an opportunity in offseason practices and preseason video games to point out he belongs.
MY TAKE: Go.
Ballot
Gabe Corridor: Keep or go?
NFL FREE AGENCY OR TRADES
Williams will seemingly go away in free company and I don’t see the Eagles spending massive cash to switch him. It’s simpler to check them including depth to the place, if something.
San Francisco 49ers common supervisor John Lynch stated former Eagles defensive deal with Javon Hargrave goes to be launched as a post-June 1 lower. If any new cash he makes goes to merely offset what the Niners already owe him, it doesn’t actually matter what he’s going to be paid on his subsequent deal. It’ll be extra about which groups he desires to play for … and possibly he desires to return to Philly.
The Chicago Bears not too long ago launched DeMarcus Walker, who overlapped with Vic Fangio on the Denver Broncos from 2019-2020.
Mario Edwards Jr. has some Eagles connections. Howie Roseman unsuccessfully tried to say him off waivers in 2018. He additionally overlapped with Eagles senior defensive assistant/defensive position coach Clint Hurtt on the Seattle Seahawks in 2023.
Outdated pal Marlon Tuipulotu shall be a free agent.
NFL DRAFT APPROACH
There’s a very good likelihood the Eagles will take a defensive deal with with the No. 32 choose within the 2025 NFL Draft. This yr’s DT class is alleged to be loaded. Names generally linked to the Eagles in mock drafts embody: Darius Alexander, T.J. Sanders, Walter Nolen, Tyleik Williams, and Shemar Turner. It’ll be shocking if the Eagles don’t draft a defensive deal with earlier than Day 3.
