What Keeping Jaelan Phillips Could Cost Eagles

The Philadelphia Eagles' walk unreserved is going to beryllium nether a microscope erstwhile again this offseason.

This was nan lawsuit up of nan 2025 National Football League waste and acquisition deadline, but nan mobility was solved arsenic nan Eagles went retired and acquired 26-year-old Jaelan Phillips from nan Miami Dolphins. Phillips was everything nan Eagles could've hoped for down nan stretch. Phillips played successful 8 games pinch nan Eagles and had 2 sacks, 4 passes defended, 1 forced fumble, 1 fumble recovery, 7 backmost hits, and 28 full tackles.

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Phillips now is heading to nan unfastened marketplace and should get paid well. Phillips is going to beryllium 1 of nan apical wide players available. CBS Sports classed Phillips arsenic nan No. 4 wide free supplier this year. But what could it costs to support Phillips around? Spotrac presently has his projected marketplace value astatine conscionable complete $52 cardinal complete 3 years.

The Eagles person to unfastened up nan checkbook

The Athletic's Brooks Kubena noted that Phillips is "within range" of wherever Josh Sweat was erstwhile he sewage a three-year, $40 cardinal woody from nan franchise.

"I’d besides expect Jaelan Phillips to beryllium a priority," Kubena wrote. "The Eagles spent a third-round prime to get him astatine nan waste and acquisition deadline, and, astatine property 26, Phillip’s floor plan is wrong scope of Josh Sweat’s erstwhile nan Eagles signed him to a three-year, $40 cardinal woody successful 2021. Safety Reed Blankenship should besides beryllium a target. Drew Mukuba’s rookie statement should springiness nan Eagles nan elasticity to widen Blankenship.

"(The Eagles signed C.J. Gardner-Johnson to a three-year, $27 cardinal woody erstwhile it was Blankenship who was connected an affordable deal.) As I wrote yesterday, if I were nan Eagles, I would connection linebacker Nakobe Dean a market-rate, one-year deal. And if I were Dean, I would not judge it. It does not make overmuch consciousness for either statement to perpetrate to a semipermanent woody pinch Jihaad Campbell successful nan equation."

If nan Eagles want to support Phillips successful town, they're going to person to salary him well. If not, they're going to beryllium successful a akin position arsenic they were up of nan waste and acquisition deadline needing a punch astatine nan walk rush.

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