Howie the Juggler

Howie Roseman is a great general manager. He’s made some terrific trades over the years. He has had some great draft picks. He’s also done a really good job with free agency signings. Howie and his staff have done a great job of working the salary cap to give the Eagles every advantage. All this work led to three Super Bowl appearances and two wins over the last decade.

Right now Howie is facing a couple of very tough situations. He’s got the AJ Brown situation to deal with and he’s also trying to re-sign Dallas Goedert. Trading AJ is incredibly complex. He is a great player and the Eagles don’t want to deal him, but AJ seems to want out of town. Trying to get good value for a great player is never easy. Then you factor in the salary cap side of things and the deal is even harder to do.

At this point it feels like AJ will be traded. That could happen next week, April or in June. Right now the Eagles are talking to at least three teams about this. The Patriots, Rams and Broncos all have interest. All three want to win a Super Bowl and could be in a “go for it” mode that would lead them to pay a steep price.

Normally this type of deal would be Howie’s primary focus. But he’s got to juggle this with DG’s situation as well. There was a deadline on Friday for the Eagles to re-sign Goedert or they would take on dead cap money. The Eagles don’t have much cap space so the smart move is to re-sign Goedert. He’s still a solid player and it feels like he wants to be back.

This situation isn’t easy because Goedert took a pay cut last year and I’m sure he wasn’t thrilled about that. I think he was hoping to hit the open market and get a good deal. Unfortunately the market for TEs this year featured a lot of activity, but no big deals. Teams didn’t throw big money at the TEs. There weren’t great options, but it was still surprising to see the contracts be so reasonable. There is a good TE class in the draft and that might affect things. It also feels like teams focused on other spots. Look at how edge rushers were getting huge deals. You can’t pay everyone.

Goedert knows that re-signing helps the Eagles. I’m sure that has him pushing for a figure that is higher than what Howie wants to pay. Both sides agreed to delay the deadline from Friday to Monday so would indicate they are still actively talking and both sides want to get something done. If you want a more detailed explanation of the cap side of things, go read this piece. The Eagles really benefit from keeping DG around.

Right now it is hard for Howie to know what cap space he has and what moves can be made. The Eagles still have a hole at safety. They might want to add another edge rusher or wide receiver. Who can they afford? These positions might be addressed in the draft, but you can’t expect them all to be done then.

This will help.

Salary cap breakdown of Riq Woolen’s $12 million contract with the Eagleshttps://t.co/jXW5Dbzqk1

— Jason_OTC (@Jason_OTC) March 14, 2026

The Eagles structured Woolen’s contract so his cap hit this year is just $3.4M. They are trying to do everything possible to have enough space to make more moves, as well as being able to handle the cap ramifications of trading AJ.

This is probably as challenging of an offseason as Howie has had to deal with. He’s worked a lot of magic in the past. It will be interesting to see how he and the Eagles come out of all of this.

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Still no update on the Jonathan Greenard situation. The Vikings are shopping him. The trick is finding someone to pay the right price. They might be asking for too high of a pick right now. With as crazy as the edge rusher market was this past week, I’m surprised we haven’t heard about more teams going after him. The Eagles are in contact with his agent so stay tuned to see if anything happens.

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