Bleeding Green Nation
An early look at how Philadelphia’s roster is taking shape.
With free agency and the NFL Draft behind us, now’s a good time to take a look at how the 2025 Philadelphia Eagles depth chart is shaping up. We’ll start today with the offense before next moving on to defense and special teams. After that, we’ll post our first 53-man roster projection ahead of the upcoming season. (For fun, take a look at how the roster looks compared to last year at this time.)
1 - Jalen Hurts
2 - Tanner McKee
3 - Dorian Thompson-Robinson
4 - Kyle McCord
Hurts is the reigning Super Bowl MVP. The Eagles might need to rely on his arm a bit more than they did in 2024. The Kenny Pickett trade elevated McKee to QB2. From everything we’ve seen in a small sample size, he has the makings of a quality backup ... and perhaps more? DTR and McCord are set to battle it out for the emergency third quarterback role. As long he doesn’t totally stink (like Clayton Thorson once did), McCord will probably win the job.
1 - Saquon Barkley
2 - Will Shipley
3 - AJ Dillon
4 - Lew Nichols
5 - Montrell Johnson Jr.
6 - ShunDerrick Powell
How will Barkley follow up the best running back season in NFL history? He’ll probably still be pretty good ... but just how good is the question. And we’ll see if he’s able to hold up durability-wise after such a massive workload in 2024. The Eagles seem high on Shipley as a direct replacement for Kenny Gainwell, who was also a coaching staff favorite. Dillon hasn’t played in a regular season game since December 2023. He needs to prove he can still play coming off a serious neck injury. Dillon could be a nice big-bodied rotational back. If Dillon can’t justify a roster spot, perhaps Nichols could step up and be RB3. If not, he’s a contender to be on the practice squad. Undrafted rookie free agents Johnson Jr. and Powell will be looking to prove they belong in the NFL. Powell seems especially intriguing as a long-term project:
1 - Ben VanSumeren
BVS is no longer listed at linebacker on the Eagles’ roster. It’s just fullback now. And his jersey number change from No. 57 to No. 43 confirms as much. Speaking on SportsRadio 94WIP this week, Jeffrey Lurie said the Eagles are “going to quietly try to resurrect the fullback position.” Of course, he was speaking to former Eagles fullback Jon Ritchie when he said that, so he very well could have been pandering. In any case, BVS showed good potential as a lead blocker last season and that was with his time divided on multiple positions. Now he’ll really be able to lock in on playing fullback. It’ll be interesting to see if the Eagles trust him to see some offensive touches in addition to blocking.
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