The Eagles’ Bryce Huff signing was about the only blemish on a well-constructed Super Bowl team. Huff signed for just more than $17MM per year last March but was a healthy scratch for Philadelphia’s season-ender against Kansas City. The Super Bowl champions are now looking into parting ways with the former Jets pass rusher.
Huff is coming up in trade rumors; more interestingly, so is Dallas Goedert. Philly is open to trade talks involving Goedert and Huff, Fox Sports’ Jordan Schultz tweets. The Eagles had been eyeing a potential fourth-round pick for their long-serving tight end, The Exhibit’s Josina Anderson mentioned previously.
One of the league’s better all-around tight ends, Goedert is going into a contract year. He turned 30 earlier this offseason. Although Goedert has continually missed time due to injuries, he has consistently operated as Philly’s No. 3 target behind A.J. Brown and DeVonta Smith on his current contract — a four-year, $57MM deal. Though, the former second-round pick has missed 15 games over the past three seasons.
Tied to just a $1.3MM 2025 base salary, Goedert also carries a $5.8MM option bonus for 2025. The Eagles have regularly used these to create cap space in recent years, while four void years are in place to reduce cap numbers as well. Goedert is only set to carry an $11.8MM cap number this year. It would cost the Eagles $21.4MM in dead money to move off Goedert before June 1. The Eagles also appear open to a trade here that involves a 2026 or 2027 mid-round pick, Anderson adds.
A separation is firmly in play for the Eagles and Goedert, per 94WIP.com’s Eliot Shorr-Parks, who adds a pay cut may be the only way Goedert comes back to Philadelphia. Although the tight end market has not moved substantially since Goedert agreed to his current deal — one finalized shortly after the Eagles traded Zach Ertz during the 2021 season — Goedert remains a quality blocker who has contributed plenty in the passing game in recent years. Boasting three 600-plus-yard seasons, Goedert finished with 42 catches for 496 yards and two touchdowns in 2024 while adding, after being activated from IR following a knee injury, 17 grabs for 215 yards and another TD in the playoffs.
A Goedert trade would leave the Eagles with a significant tight end need, and three top options — Evan Engram, Juwan Johnson, Mike Gesicki — are off the market. This draft does house a few quality options, but potentially significant trade-ups would need to take place from No. 32 for the Eagles to have a chance at the top two (Tyler Warren, Colston Loveland).
Huff both suffered an injury and was ineffective in Vic Fangio’s defense. Playing just 285 defensive snaps last season, the former Jets rotational rusher tallied 2.5 sacks. Week 8 brought Huff’s final 20-plus-snap effort in a game of consequence, as the Eagles only turned to him in a regular role in Week 18. Huff had posted a 10-sack Jets season and received substantial free agency interest. The Eagles are ready to see if some clubs still view Huff highly.
I just knew the Eagles would find a way to destroy their Superbowl winning team.
That seems like an overreaction.
If you think that’s an overreaction to trading the guy who saves most drives from going three and out and is one of the best blockers in the league, I really don’t know what to tell you.
There is a reason they only won a handful of playoff games between 2018 and when they went again in 2022 and why they were terrible in 2023 after being in the Superbowl the previous season.
Unnecessary and boneheaded decisions like this are why.
1) They haven’t actually made this “unnecessary and boneheaded” decision yet.
2) Goedert is 30 and has missed 15 regular season games over the last three years. Eventually the future is going to come. Maybe they’d rather move on a year early than a year late.
3) Goedert is a good player, but the idea that this constitutes destroying the team is an overreaction.
No, Goedert is not a good player. He is a great one. Period.
You are wrong. It’s really that simple.
You don’t “move on a year early rather than late” from a core player as the defending Superbowl champions. That’s not what actual winning teams do. They keep the team together.
It’s definitely not an overreaction. Watch how many more drives stall out without him. He has bailed Hurts out time and time again, game in and game out.
“You don’t ‘move on a year early rather than late’ from a core player as the defending Superbowl champions. That’s not what actual winning teams do. They keep the team together.” Buddy, I’ve got news for you about how the Chiefs and Patriots managed their dynasties. And while I like Goedert, that “great” player is not an elite tight end, and he’s been banged up in recent years. You expect him to stay “great” forever? They drafted him as a successor to Ertz. I’m sure they’ll plan for the future this time, too.
Yeah, and that’s why they went from Superbowl champions to not even sniffing the playoffs in less than three years. They went from two great tight ends to one developing tight end in Goedert and a bunch of terrible sidekicks like Stoll.
Just stop it.
And lol no that’s absolutely not how they managed their dynasties. They kept their core intact no matter what and built around it. Maybe you should pay more attention before you get condescending.
If you claim Goedert isn’t an elite tight end, you’re just showing your bias. It has nothing to do with liking someone. The Eagles wouldn’t have even made the playoffs without him these past four years. They got LUCKY that he panned out the way he did as a receiver. Most of us expected him to just be a blocker to replace Celek.
Dude, the Chiefs traded Tyreek Hill mid-dynasty. The Patriots moved on from people all the time during the Brady years. Mayne you should pay attention.
I think you have a weird Goedert bias. I like the guy, but no, he’s not an elite tight end. Also he caught 71 passes his last year of college. No one expected him to be mostly a blocker.
Also, the Eagles went from Super Bowl champions to not making the playoffs because the Wentz contract went terribly and they needed to reset their cap. They missed the playoffs exactly once. They’ve now made the Super Bowl twice in three years.
Mid dynasty? They traded him after having only won ONE Superbowl and then promptly getting destroyed by Tampa Bay, and Tyreek was never a core player. Kelce was. Kelce was the guy the offense was built around.
They kept guys like MECOLE HARDMAN over him.
No, buddy. You do. Yeah, he is elite. If he went to a team with a QB who is actually a prolific passer, he’d have never had less than 1,000 yards.
Lol umm yeah most people absolutely expected him to be mostly a blocker because of the competition he played against.
Hahahahaha that’s hilarious. The Wentz contract? Is that why they let some of their most important players walk, traded others, and gave Wentz ONE legit WR the rest of his time as an Eagle, and a banged up one at that?
They only made the Superbowl that year because of Frank Reich’s offense (where they actually RAN THE BALL) and because moves like getting Patrick Robinson worked out, and they proceeded to do the complete opposite the following off-season and season.
“They missed the playoffs exactly once”. Lol they could barely even win a wildcard or division game. These claims are just embarrassing. They went from the best team in the league to a laughingstock and never stopped being a laughingstock until they shocked the NFL in 2022.
“Tyreek was never a core player.” Good lord man. You also claim below that Goedert is a perennial Pro Bowler when he’s literally never made a single Pro Bowl and you call my claims embarrassing.
And again, no, people were not mostly expecting him to be a blocker. The very first sentence of Lance Zierlein’s draft profile of him: “Goedert is a very talented pass catching tight end with the ability to work all three levels of the field.”
You just regurgitate what other people say, throw in some condescension and appeal to majority, and use absolute statements about things that are not in fact objective facts.
Yes, your claims are embarrassing. The Eagles were a joke after that Superbowl. Teams would LAUGH at them when they played them in 2019-2021.
They barely even won most of the games they won this year and had to be a wildcard team, and you pretend they’re some amazingly well run organization and a perennial champion, and yet you claim I’m biased.
I know exactly what they are. You don’t seem to.
I’ve listed a number of facts you’ve ignored. In the last nine seasons, they’ve won two Super Bowls, made another one, and only missed the playoffs once. I’m sorry I think that’s a successfully run team. Good luck with whatever’s going on with you.
None of them were facts lol but whatever.
“Whatever’s going on with me”? Not driding a “smarter than everyone” GM and an owner who sees winning as secondary is what’s going on with me.
This clown you’re going back and forth with is a closet Cowboys fan…. his take is moronic. You are spot on with what you’ve said in this thread. Howie is setting the team up for long term success. I’m in a wait and see mode as the draft hasn’t even happened. If we lock up Carter this year and have a strong draft, the Eagles will be fine for years to come.
I’m sure you’ll go back to not pretending to be an Eagles fan anymore soon enough. Bandwagon fans like you are so comical.
I’ve been a fan since Cunningham was the QB.
Oooof has forgotten more NFL than u think you should know. I got my beefs with Oooof on occasion, but the man knows the game!
Dallas G is a good tight end and No one lists him as great. I could list 15 TEs over him and it’s not a knock only to stat-He is not a great TE. He could’ve been replaced with a Giesiki, Juwan Johnson type and the eagles wouldn’t miss a beat. Plus his injuries are catching up to him and the cap number is big. I can see why they are moving on bc TE’s are replaceable in today’s NFL. There are only 5-10 non replacement type guys and he’s def not it.
Delusional take.
Dallas??? Is that you?
I’ve probably been an Eagles fan longer than you’ve been alive, you clown.
You’re nowhere near an Eagles fan….trolling
Lol I love when bandwagon fans pull this lame nonsense.
If they do trade Goedert, enjoy wearing your Hurts So Good shirt while they struggle to win games because Hurts has nobody to bail him out on broken plays anymore.
Then I’m sure it won’t take long for you to forget to pretend you’re an Eagles fan in the first place.
Wat are u 6 ?
This guy has been on every Eagles related roster lately talking about how badly run the Eagles are. Do not engage.
You’re a clown.
They’ve more than earned that image, and this off-season is more proof of it.
They should be retaining as many players as possible yet they’re looking to offload guys in moves that create more dead cap than cap space!
I don’t even care anymore. It was nice to delude myself for a bit that they had changed but you go on drinking the Kool Aid all you want, trusting a guy who in reality has done everything to lose our trust and continues to with this stupid “we can replace everyone but Hurts” kind of thinking.
I read all your comments and as a die hard Eagles fan, moving off Goedert is probably the dumbest thing they could do this offseason. He’s been a little banged up but he’s MASSIVELY important to this team. His blocking and receiving make a huge difference for this offense. It is PAINFULLY obvious when he doesn’t play. It makes 0 sense to trade him this offseason. I wholeheartedly agree with all your comments. Even the RUMOR of this pisses me off, let alone if we actually do it
There are some fascinating brains on this here internet.
Kind of like the brains that think the Eagles doing the exact opposite of what they did in 2017 every year after, including not drafting a corner in the first round for 20 years and only drafting one in the second ONCE during that time, doing that same stupidity again in 2023, and doing it again now as the defending champions are the sign of a smart and well run team.
That caring more about comp picks than winning is intelligent. That overhyping potential draft picks and pretending they’re better than current NFL players who are among the best at their position is objective or intelligent.
Do you have a single original thought? It sure doesn’t seem like it.
lol ok man. I’m sorry you find it so hard to be an Eagles fan. Have a good one.
Years of penny pinching and being okay with being mediocre while claiming to be the gold standard only to see those same idiotic decisions cost good to great teams their season tends to earn you the image of not caring about winning.
I’m sorry you get so emotional over somebody calling out bad team management. Probably because you have the exact same asinine thinking as the Eagles.
They consistently spend more cash than just about any team in football. It’s like talking to someone who lives in a parallel dimension. But hey, feel free to try reading this thread with fresh eyes and seeing who seems emotional.
Lol no they absolutely don’t. A handful of off-seasons out of the fifteen plus Howie has been there does not a “consistently” make.
The fact is the ONLY times they’ve actually done what the rest of the league does and make intelligent decisions rather than thinking of their asinine view of “value”, they’ve gone to or won a Superbowl. Only to go right back to the idiocy the very next off-season and season.
The only emotional people are the ones who can’t see that. Last year was a mostly intelligent off-season. What do they follow that up with? Talking about trading or actually trading the very players who got them there.
You seem awfully upset….you OK?
You’re a clown calling me a Dallas fan for questioning Howie after years of stupid moves from him.
Seems like you’re the one who’s upset.
lol Yes, CJ Gardner-Johnson is what got them there.
Starting him rather than having a hole at safety absolutely played a part. He had six picks this year and plenty of big hits.
Almost like no one player carries a football team and they’re all important. Huh, what a concept!
One of the top spending teams in the national football League
lol that’s incorrect
Lol no it’s not.
Goedert saved the Eagles from so many stalled drives thanks to Hurts it’s not even funny, and he’s one of the best blocking tight ends in the league.
You misspelled “improve” ..: as in “look to improve before it becomes a liability”.
Free Agent TE aren’t the answer but Buffalo has Kincaid and might be persuaded to trade Knox
It’s also a very promising draft for tight ends.
Improve? The only thing the Eagles have done is create holes where there were none before at positions where they have had self-inflicted problems for years.
You don’t look to trade for or draft a tight end when you have one of the best in the league as the defending Superbowl champions!
Wrong
Dalton Knox was drafted a year after Goedert. A year.
What a stupid suggestion when talking about trading a perennial Pro Bowler who only has low numbers because of Hurts.
Dallas Goedert has not made one Pro Bowl.
Because he gets way less targets than the other top tight ends.
Just like Devonta Smith is a guy who could easily lead the league in receiving on any given year but barely cracks 1,000 thanks to a quarterback who in reality isn’t all that prolific of a passer. That’s called being a team player and making sacrifices.
And here’s where you laughably try to claim Devonta Smith isn’t an elite WR.
Because they are loaded on offense
The birds are completely loaded on offense and in case you haven’t noticed tend to run the rock a bit. Heard the same when ertz went away. Huff is Howies 1 percenter.
They barely won the games they won in the regular season because of the offense they run. Goedert is a huge reason why the offense works at all.
You absolutely didn’t hear the same when Ertz was traded because we had Goedert already.
If you were actually a fan, you’d know this is more like Chad Lewis.
1 percenter? Lol I could easily point to twenty moves from Howie like the Huff signing.
A fan ? I’ve been watching this team since norm snead. Howie admits bad signings and moves on. His occasional bad signing doesn’t set his franchise back. You are a armchair,stuff your face with nachos and a mountain dew kinda fan. Birds were absolutely dominant last season. Rugby might be a good sport for you to start off as a fan.
Terrible take but a casual fans excellent take.
Love when casual fans call somebody else a casual fan.
Wonder if Huff could wind up in SF and reunite with Saleh, who figured him out in the first place.
Goedert straight up for Marcedes Lewis…who says no? LOL
You’re a clown.
I have no emotional investment in these players whatsoever (or in the team for that matter at this point).
My analysis is objective. Yours is emotional. That’s why you’re what, trying to troll me with lame absurd comments thinking I’ll get mad?
You all are the ones who fanboy people. Not me.
You’re butt hurt and this entire thread sees that you have little understanding of team management. I’m sure you ripped Howie last year for the Baun pickup….. if you want to whine after the draft, go ahead…but you won’t.
You’re clearly the butthurt one to the point of calling me a Dallas fan. Why don’t you cry about it, Hurts fanboy?
Nope I liked the pickup. I absolutely ripped him for not having a starting caliber OLB though. That’s called objectivity.
Guess what? I also called out the Huff signing that you all praised while pretending Redick was so replaceable.
So maybe you should stop talking like you know anything or being disrespectful towards anybody else.
I’m not the one whining though, am I? You are. Calling me a Dallas fan because you’re in your feelings that I called out a handful of Howie’s decisions while praising others.
Howie is going to have to include a pick, no one is going to give anything for the privilege of giving a 15.5M option bonus to Huff (which is guaranteed). A reminder that Howie makes his share of mistakes.
Don’t say that! Questioning Howie is sacrilege!
The Goedert situation is exactly like the Redick situation. They keep thinking they can replace elite players with guys they gamble on, and they’re usually wrong.
Moving on from Reddick was a smart move. He wanted a new contract and was horrible last year. They just picked the wrong guy to replace him.
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I don’t believe the Goedery rumors at all, as they can’t take on $21m in cap space before June 1st.
They don’t have the ability to clear much and they need what they have to sign some FAs and their draft picks.