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Heading into the 2025 NFL season, the Philadelphia Eagles roster is in pretty good shape.
Sure, they didn’t sign any marquee free agents, with Howie Roseman bringing back Zack Baun before targeting cheap players on the margin. But the team more than made up for it in the 2025 NFL Draft, with 10 draft picks plus eight more undrafted free agents helping to fill the roster out heading into the summer.
And yet, the Eagles are not a complete team, with a few areas of concern that should be addressed moving forward.
Fortunately, there are plenty of opportunities for the Eagles to sure things up before Week 1, with a chance to adjust the contracts of their own players, to make moves to acquire new ones, and even the potential that an interesting prospect or two could hit the waiver wire before opening night. Though “talent acquisition season” may be over, there’s still a chance the Eagles are a better team before Week 1 kicks off.
Heading into the 2025 NFL Draft, it seemed like the Eagles were going to be in the market for a new tight end.
On paper, it made sense; while Dallas Goedert is a great player, he was injured a number of times during the 2024 NFL season, and the Eagles barely missed a beat, with Grant Calcaterra doing a fine enough job with a bigger workload. Factor in his eight-figure contract value in 2025, and the timing felt right to say goodbye to the South Dakota State product in favor of a younger, more cost-controlled player moving forward.
And yet, after missing out on the top four tight ends on the board, the Eagles kept taking things in another direction, bypassing Harold Fannin Jr. in the second and passing on Day 3 players like Gunnar Helm and Jackson Hawes in favor of other options.
Could the Eagles make a trade for another tight end? Maybe so, but if that doesn’t happen, Roseman would be wise to rework Goedert’s contract in 2025 like he did with Josh Sweat in 2024, freeing him up to become a free agent in 2026 while making his team less expensive in the short term. Even if he isn’t the future, Goedert is still the Eagles’ third-best pure receiving option in 2025 and should keep him around as a result.
Much like tight end, the Eagles didn’t add a wide receiver in the 2025 NFL Draft, bypassing the position after landing two, Ainias Smith and Johnny Wilson, last spring.
In 2024, neither Wilson nor Smith really shone in South Philadelphia, with the former being used mostly as a blocker while the latter barely played at all after struggling in training camp. While the former showed some upside, as he remains the biggest wide receiver in the NFL and could transition to tight end if things go poorly, the Eagles would be...
