The article discusses the moves made by the Eagles in the offseason, focusing on CB Riq Woolen, TE Johnny Mundt, and other notable additions. It also mentions the importance of roster building and the potential for more moves before the 2026 season.
The Eagles still have about four months before they start their 2026 season so there could be some more moves coming. But now that we’ve reached a quieter part of the offseason ahead of spring OTAs, let’s take a look back at most of the Eagles ’ activity this offseason before ranking GM Howie Roseman’s best moves: CB Riq Woolen, TE Johnny Mundt, CB Jonathan Jones, OLB Arnold Ebiketie, WR Hollywood Brown, TE Stone Smartt, RB Dameon Pierce, S J.T.
Gray, WR Elijah Moore, OLB Joe Tryon-Shoyinka, LB Chandler MartinOLB Jaelan Phillips , WR Jahan Dotson , LB Nakobe Dean , S Reed Blankenship , OL Matt Pryor , QB Sam Howell , OL Brett Toth , OLB Joshua Uche , OLB Azeez Ojulari , TE Kylen Granson , RB A.J. Dillon , FB Ben VanSumeren WR Makai Lemon, TE Eli Stowers, OT Markel Bell, QB Cole Payton, OG Micah Morris, S Cole Wisniewski, DT Uar Bernard, OLB Keyshawn James-Newby Roseman is always looking to add talent through the mid-season trade deadline and sometimes even beyond, so it’s important to remember that there’s no finish line in roster building.
The 26-year-old former first-round pick from Georgia had a breakout season in 2025. During the 2024 season, Davis began to get in better shape and all that hard work really paid off last year. In 2025, Davis started all 17 games and had a career-high 4 1/2 sacks, 9 TFLs and 6 QB hits. He was an NFC Defensive Player of the Week in Week 11 and NFC Special Teams Player of the Week in Week 3.
Davis was scheduled to play the 2026 season on the fifth-year option of his rookie contract for nearly $13 million, but back in early March reached terms of a three-year extension. That three-year extension is worth $78 million, giving Davis an annual average salary from 2027-2029 of $26 million. That makes him one of the highest-paid defensive tackles in the NFL. There is clearly some projection in paying Davis this much money.
But the veteran nose tackle has always been able to stop the run and has started to scratch the surface of his ability rushing the passer. The Eagles are counting on his continued improvement and Davis doesn’t want to let them down.
“That's something that I don't really stop to think about because you're still in the midst of it all,” Davis said in March. “Fletch told me that they are keeping you for not what you've done, but for what you can do, what you are expected to do. “Although I do have times or a moment of reflection, those times are very short. I know that it's more work at hand to do.
You can never be comfortable. You can't be comfortable, not in this league, not in this world. You always have to be striving for something greater. And that's where I'm at right now.
” The Eagles are paying Davis for his contributions on the field but he has also become one of the most important players in the locker room. He’s a glue guy and the leader of an extremely talented defensive tackle group, which includes Jalen Carter, who could also be getting an extension at some point this offseason. The Eagles are hoping second-round pick Eli Stowers ends up being the tight end of the future.
But it was a big move for the Eagles to bring back Dallas Goedert on a one-year deal for 2026. And the contract seems like a bargain. In 2025, Goedert played on a one-year, $10 million contract, and the Eagles got him back for just $7 million in 2026.
“Really excited to bring Dallas back,” Roseman said at the NFL owners meetings. “Felt like we were in communication with his agent throughout the process, trying to find what was right for him and what was right for us. I think it was really the first time he had an opportunity to go into free agency and see what was out there. But at the same time, he loves Philadelphia.
He was telling us throughout the process that he would love to come back. He felt like even with the success he had, he had unfinished business. Just really excited to bring him back. ” The Eagles played this well.
They basically let the 31-year-old Goedert and his agent gauge the market but made it clear that he was still wanted in Philadelphia. And Goedert, who has played the first eight years of his career in Philly, didn’t want to go anywhere else. While Goedert’s run blocking fell off a bit in 2025, he still had a good season. Goedert played in 15 games and had 60 catches for 591 yards and an Eagles tight end-record 11 touchdown catches.
It’s understandable that the Eagles prioritized finding Goedert’s replacement in the draft last month but making sure there’s an overlap was wise. It’s tough to judge a draft pick before he plays in a game. But the process the Eagles used to select Lemon in the first round out of USC was a sound one. Roseman was able to pull off a trade from 23 to 20 with the Dallas Cowboys to swoop in front of the Steelers for Lemon.
This is a guy the Eagles had ranked as a top 15 player. And this is yet another year of the Eagles finding a way to draft a first-round pick well below his consensus draft slot.
"We kind of had a really good sense of who we thought the first 15 guys would be," Roseman said. "One of those guys did not go in the first 15, and he was available to us. So I think for us, when we saw that, it was just trying to figure out where we can move up. ” The Lemon pick led to a strange scene on draft night.
The Eagles couldn’t get Lemon on the phone because the Steelers were already talking to him, assuming they were going to take him at pick No. 21. Not so fast. While there are no sure things in the NFL draft, Lemon appears to be a high-floor player who will contribute immediately as a rookie. In 2025, Lemon won the Biletnikoff Award as the top receiver in college football with 79 catches for 1,156 yards and 11 touchdowns.
With the likely trade of A.J. Brown in a few weeks, Lemon is expected to slot in as the Eagles’ WR2 behind DeVonta Smith. The Eagles were able to get by with Adoree’ Jackson in their CB2 role during the 2025 season and they were clearly done just trying to get by. So they signed Riq Woolen to a one-year, $12 million deal for the 2026 season.
On paper, this gives the Eagles perhaps the best cornerback trio in the NFL with Quinyon Mitchell, Cooper DeJean and Woolen.
“Now, does he have to be more consistent to hit that at times? For sure,” Roseman said.
“There’s a reason that a supremely talented player was available and he knows that. I think we have some insight into who the person is because Clint was his DC, running a very similar system.
“And so you know, we like to get really talented guys we think are good people that maybe had not the caliber year they’re capable of. That doesn’t guarantee anything. But we thought based on where we were and the price point, that it was a good fit for both sides.
” But the upside for this move is huge and the thought of pairing a good version of Woolen with a couple of All-Pros in Mitchell and DeJean was too much to pass up. Woolen is 27 now after spending the first four years of his career with the Seahawks. His best season came as a fifth-round rookie in 2022 when he made a Pro Bowl with 6 interceptions and 16 pass breakups.
In his four-year NFL career, Woolen has 12 picks and 53 pass breakups. The Eagles’ biggest acquisition this offseason came on Day 2 of the draft when they consummated their trade with the Vikings to bring in pass rusher Jonathan Greenard. The Eagles got Greenard and a 2026 seventh-round pick for No. 98 overall in 2026 and a third-round pick in 2027.
Then the Eagles signed Greenard to a four-year, $98 million contract extension with $60 million in new money. Earlier this offseason, the Eagles made an attempt to re-sign Jaelan Phillips and then showed interest in Trey Hendrickson. Ultimately, they ended up with Greenard, who is definitely not a consolation prize.
“Through the offseason things change,” Roseman said. “Things change from when you start the offseason to as you come to the draft process, you get a truer sense, kind of as the process goes along, of the things that you have, the things that you need, the things you can acquire. And we felt like, at this time, this was a really good move for our football team to acquire him, to improve our defensive line.
Really excited to get him. ” Greenard, who turns 29 later this month, had 12 1/2 sacks in 2023 in his final year with the Texans and 12 sacks in his first year with the Vikings. In 2025, his sack total dipped to 3 in 12 games, but his pressure numbers were still strong. In fact, Greenard’s pressure rate of 15.4% in 2025 was higher than his pressure rate of 13.4% in 2024.
And his pressure numbers are comparable to what Phillips was able to do last season in Miami and Philly:Phillips in 2025: 15.9% The Eagles still have Nolan Smith and Jalyx Hunt as a part of their edge rusher rotation, but they can now slot in Greenard at the top of that rotation. Greenard will likely play 70+ percent of the Eagles’ defensive snaps and will be expected to produce at a high rate.
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