The Philadelphia Eagles and common supervisor Howie Roseman are actually cooking within the NFL’s free-agency interval, agreeing with RB Saquon Barkley on a three-year, $37.75M deal and with defensive finish Bryce Huff on a three-year, $51.1M contract, per ESPN NFL insider Adam Schefter.
The Barkley deal is prone to rile up followers of the rival Giants. Former Large Blue star Tiki Barber mentioned lately, “The truth that Saquon would even ponder going to play for that staff in Philadelphia is insulting to his Large historical past and legacy.”
Barkley, 27, rushed for five,211 yards and 35 scores in 74 video games with New York. The previous Penn State star had a career-high 1,312 dashing yards in 2022, however he fell off to 962 dashing yards in an injury-hampered 2023 season.
The transfer marks a departure from franchise philosophy for Roseman and the Eagles, who’ve gone with a operating back-by-committee strategy since buying and selling LeSean McCoy to the Buffalo Payments in 2015. The Eagles have been one among many groups who moved away from investing excessive picks or large {dollars} at operating again.
Barkley will substitute D’Andre Swift, who rushed for 1,049 yards for the Eagles in 2023 however agreed on a three-year, $24M contract with the Bears on Monday.
The Eagles additionally made a giant splash on protection by agreeing with Huff, a 25-year-old undrafted free agent who shined with the New York Jets over the previous 4 seasons.
Huff, who’s 6-foot-3 and 255 kilos, will assist the Eagles reload their defensive position, which suffered the lack of retired franchise nice Fletcher Cox on Sunday.
Huff’s signing makes it doubtless the Eagles will transfer on from one among their prime edge-rushers, Haason Reddick or Josh Sweat.
The Eagles led the league in sacks in 2022 with 70 en path to a loss to the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs within the Tremendous Bowl. Nevertheless, that determine declined to 43 in 2023 as Tampa Bay ousted the Eagles within the first spherical of the playoffs.
Huff, a rotational participant who performs totally on passing downs, had a breakout season in 2023 with 10 sacks, 21 QB hits and 68 pressures whereas taking part in lower than half the snaps for the Jets. He led the NFL’s second-best go protection in sacks.
