The Eagles have given edge rusher Haason Reddick permission to seek a trade, according to Ian Rapoport of NFL.com. Reddick is owed a $14.25MM salary in 2024, the last year of his current deal.
Reddick, 29, was selected by the Cardinals in the first round of the 2017 draft, and he had an inauspicious start to his career, struggling through several underwhelming years as an off-ball linebacker. When Chandler Jones went down with a season-ending bicep injury in 2020, Reddick convinced Arizona’s coaching staff to let him take Jones’ place as a pass rusher. After all, Reddick had thrived in that role in college, but he was considered too small for it at the professional level. The move paid major dividends, as Reddick racked up 12.5 sacks that season and parlayed his success into a one-year, $6MM deal with the Panthers in 2021.
Reddick compiled 11 sacks in his first and only season in Charlotte, at which point it became clear that his Cardinals breakout was no fluke. That convinced the Eagles to hand him a three-year, $45MM contract in 2022, and he followed up a 16-sack performance that year with another 11-sack effort in 2023. He has made the Pro Bowl in both of his first two seasons in Philadelphia.
As Eliot Shorr-Parks of 94WIP.com observes, Reddick’s contract has been an “issue” for over a year. After his tremendous 2022 campaign, in which he finished fourth in Defensive Player of the Year voting, both player and team knew that Reddick was underpaid relative to his market value. Reddick, however, did not hold out for a new contract, and the Eagles did not explore one either (which is understandable, as he was just one year into a three-year accord). Now, it is clear that Reddick wants to be paid like the elite player he is, and with 11 edge defenders enjoying AAVs of at least $20MM, that would seem like the floor in negotiations with Philadelphia or any other club.
Of course, as both Shorr-Parks and Zach Berman of PHLY observe, allowing Reddick to shop himself does not necessarily mean that his time with the Eagles is up. Ultimately, Philadelphia simply may not like any trade offers enough to deal a top player at a premium position, but if the Eagles do decide to retain Reddick, Berman believes GM Howie Roseman will authorize a new contract rather than let a disgruntled player finish out his below-market deal. Berman adds that Roseman’s decision will be influenced, at least to some degree, by the presence of Josh Sweat, who is also entering a platform year.
In addition to his production over the past four seasons, Reddick has also proven to be highly durable, having missed one game in seven professional seasons (h/t Berman). Although he will be 30 in September, it would not be surprising to see other teams pony up significant trade compensation along with a contract that would position Reddick among his highest-paid peers.
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My guess is that they see Nolan Smith sliding right into that role. Much cheaper alternative with eyes on signing some talent elsewhere on the roster.
Ironically the Cardinals now make sense as a team that would know how to use him.
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wow so the offseason is starting like the last 2 months of the regular season like crap for us Eagle fans! why in the world are they going to let our best defensive player the last two years ago via trade? I know it’s because of money but we got an Elite pass rusher it wasn’t used right last year and drop it in the coverage as much as he did. now other teams are going to know the Eagles are in a bad spot cuz they don’t want to pay him but his market value is they will probably get screwed when it comes to what they get and return if he does get traded
Am I missing something or are they in perfectly good cap shape? Especially once Kelce retires and they cut or restructure Byard. Plus they have an extra second rounder, so they hopefully have an extra cheap starter in the not too distant future.
He is pushing 30 making 16 million plus. Sweat also in final year of contract.
This tactic in general is BS. He negotiated and signed a contract. He should have to honor it no matter what his “status” is in the league.
Ya as soon as NFL teams start honouring the contracts then the players will.
Maybe the NFLPA ought to start worrying about that in the next CBA negotiations since they’ve obviously bargained that away for something else in every negotiation in league history.
hersch, teams honor the contracts what are you talking about?
Say the Eagles cut Reddick today, or any other player under contract. That team would have to pay the player the agreed amount of guaranteed money left on the deal.
Here is how it works. Player negotiates with a team for a contract. The contract stipulates how much is to be paid, how often, and by what means even in the event of a trade, termination, or releasing of that player. The terms are signed mutually by both the player and the team.
This fallacy that teams don’t honor contracts is a farce.
Or it’s just how the NFL works. More often than not, teams either extend, cut, or trade high priced veterans rather than have them play out a last year under contract. Beside, the Eagles did this with Slay and it turned out to be a prelude to keeping him. You may think contracts should always be lorded over players, but it’s not how the league operates and treating your valued employees with good faith is smart management.
Figure the asking price would be multiple 2nds or 3rds.
I think if they’re going to trade him, they’d be very happy with one second.
The recent comps would be Bradley Chubb and Montez Sweat. Both Chubb and Sweat were younger when they were traded. Chubb had 1 year left on a rookie deal then was extended as a part of the deal I believe. Sweat also on a rookie deal and only played half a season due to when he was traded.
Reddick while good is either 1 year at a high price with option to tag him and likely piss him off if you look to keep him for a 2nd year – OR – 1 year at a high price and extending a 30 year old pass rusher at a high price.
Chubb brought a first and chase edmonds, sweat a 2nd rounder. So I think a 3rd and a swap or something similar is where it would finish for a return.
If the Eagles won’t pa up for Reddick then all this fluff I’m reading about the Eagles signing Parsons is just that…fluff. Parsons to the Eagles will never happen.
Maybe they are saving money just for Parsons.
When you reach the level of super bowl participant or contender, you can’t keep ’em all. Expensive stuational pass rusher usually falls in to that category no matter where he ranks.
Draft picks are way too coveted to trade for high priced vets like Reddick. Once a team starts having success (like my Lions this season) then your team starts getting more expensive. Take my squad for example. We have 2 glaring holes on D we need to fix (EDGE & CB1). Most people are clamoring for an expensive FA for these positions, but that’s not how you do it. You hire a fantastic GM like we have in Brad Holmes and let him go to work. Our draft class was obliterated by the experts last season when we took Gibbs, Campbell, LaPorta and Branch in the first 2 rounds and now 2 of them are All Pros and the other 2 are premium starters. You can’t pay everyone, so you HAVE TO have lower priced rookies that you hit on that can start so that way when it’s time to pay up for Sewell, St Brown and Goff then your able to do so. Philly needs to take that same stance.
Buccanneers could use a Man like Haason
Bucs run defense is good, but use a pass rusher like Reddick for sure
Reddick wasn’t alone in being an athletic linebacker that was played out of position in Arizona. It was mindblowing how just…committed, I suppose, the team was to drafting athletic guys and using them in different roles than what they excelled at prior. Unreal, in my mind.
That said, Reddick is firmly in “veteran piece fir a championship push” mode right now, in how he projects to fit on a team. The issue will of course be in trade compensation. As a free agent, Reddick would be in high demand by Buffalo or Miami, but having to give up a draft pick muddies the waters. I doubt that the Bills will pay what the Eagles would want, especially as they roster Miller.
But that’s just one example-I actually think that the Lions are a decent possibility. They’re mostly a homegrown roster behind Goff, but they’re now at the point where they can augment their core with high end veteran free agents in a few spots. Reddick would fit well in a role as a pass rusher, with Cominsky available to play outside on the run downs if necessary (I personally think that Cominsky, while sized as an end, could slide inside to work with McNeil with a good edge opposite Hutchinson, and that could provide potentially a better product that starting Jones inside). Of course, proper compensation is important. Every team has its ceiling. Unless this becomes a bidding war, which I don’t think that it will (despite Reddick drawing good interest, he’s probably going to get a short term deal due to his age), it seems like a third is the upper end of compensation here. Remember, they’ll still need to work out a deal afterward, even if it’s a short one. If Carroll hadn’t been out in Seattle, this would seem like his type of move, even with Williams present. Interesting teams would be Houston and Las Vegas, though I doubt that Houston is quite in that mode now, and Vegas just had a regime change.