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The future of defensive tackle Jalen Carter with the Philadelphia Eagles is starting to appear somewhat in doubt, given the club’s hesitancy to hand him a lengthy contract extension.
Right now, he’s still under team control through the upcoming 2026 and 2027 NFL season after they exercised his fifth-year contract option in April. But why the delay in a long-term extension before his market price inevitably goes up?
NFL Insider Albert Breer, while responding to a question from an Eagles fan in a recent mailbag piece, indicated that the Eagles are “hesitant” to hand out a major extension to Carter.
“Ben, the answer is yes, they are hesitant to pay him,” Breer wrote via Sports Illustrated. “Philadelphia is telling you what you need to know with its actions. The Eagles have always been aggressive paying their own, in large part because they know that the earlier you do the deal, the better the price you’ll get. It’s a strategy that takes commitment from ownership, which Philly clearly has (some owners would rather keep money in their accounts until the summer), and has served the team very well over the years.”
“The fact that we’re into June without Jalen Carter having a deal is notable, and I’d guess if they do one now, before his fourth season as a pro, then it’d come with flexibility for the team,” he continued. “If Carter won’t give them that flexibility now, maybe he’ll just wait another year.”
Carter, whom the Eagles selected in the first round (ninth overall pick) of the 2023 NFL Draft, helped the club win Super Bowl LIX and has accumulated 108 tackles with 13.5 sacks so far in his career.
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