Ought to the Eagles maintain Milton Williams?

The Philadelphia Eagles’ Super Bowl season is over and the 2025 NFL offseason is formally right here. We’re persevering with our Eagles roster outlook sequence by analyzing the defensive sort out place. PREVIOUSLY: Quarterback | Running back | Tight end | Wide receiver | Offensive tackle | Offensive guard | Center | Edge rusher.

THE PLAYERS

JALEN CARTER

STATS: 831 snaps, 42 complete tackles, 4.5 sacks, 12 TFLs, 2 pressured fumbles, 16 QB hits, 52 QB hurries, 6 move deflections

PLAYOFF STATS: 237 snaps, 11 complete tackles, 2 sacks, 2 TFLs, 1 pressured fumble, 7 QB hits, 16 QB hurries, 2 move deflections

REVIEW: Previous to the 2024 season, BGN’s Jonny Page wrote about how Carter had Defensive Player of the Year upside. That dominant potential was absolutely on show within the Eagles’ Week 3 win over the New Orleans Saints, the place Carter completely wrecked their whole offense. Carter continued to excel over the course of the season, typically drawing further consideration that created one-on-one alternatives for his teammates. For his efforts, Carter made his first profession Pro Bowl along with being named second-team All-Professional. Carter was answerable for arguably the largest two play sequence from the Eagles’ Super Bowl season when he sacked Matthew Stafford after which pressured the Los Angeles Rams quarterback into an incompletion for a game-sealing turnover on downs within the Divisional Spherical. The Eagles have been by no means in additional hazard of dropping within the playoffs than they have been earlier than Carter saved the day. One other facet of Carter’s spectacular season is how typically he performed. Vic Fangio rode him onerous; Carter logged 79.4% of the Eagles’ complete defensive snaps. In contrast, he solely performed 563 snaps for 48.5% as a rookie.

OUTLOOK: Carter is at the moment signed via 2026 and the Eagles have a fifth-year possibility they will train for 2027. If Carter continues to progress as a game-wrecking power, he very nicely is likely to be DPOY as quickly as subsequent season. And he’ll probably be one of many highest paid defenders within the NFL when he turns into eligible for a contract extension subsequent 12 months.

MY TAKE: Keep.

MILTON WILLIAMS

STATS: 501 snaps, 24 complete tackles, 5 sacks, 7 TFLs, 1 pressured fumble, 10 QB hits, 39 QB hurries, 1 move deflection

PLAYOFF STATS: 153 snaps, 7 complete tackles, 2 sacks, 2 TFLs, 1 pressured fumble, 2 QB hits, 11 QB hurries, 2 move deflections

REVIEW: Williams had an incredible coaching camp and that offseason success carried over into the common season. With Carter typically drawing further consideration, Williams crushed his one-on-one alternatives to log a profession excessive in sacks. Williams completed the season robust by shining in Tremendous Bowl LIX with two sacks (together with a strip-sack on Patrick Mahomes) and two TFLs.

OUTLOOK: If the salary cap didn’t exist, the Eagles keeping Williams would be a no-brainer. He’s an ascending defensive lineman who solely turns 26 in April. He’s extraordinarily athletic. He’s solely missed one sport in his whole profession. Williams deserves to receives a commission … and he probably will. However on condition that the Eagles have restricted assets to work with, I simply don’t suppose spending them on Williams is the appropriate play for them. With reports that Osa Odighizuwa, who’s in the same place to Williams, might make over $21 million per 12 months … Williams is about to get PAID. Once more, I imagine Williams has earned his cash. However it is a man who had half of a sack in 2023. He performed higher than that quantity would recommend, to be clear. However Williams isn’t a participant the Eagles MUST maintain. Particularly when 1) there are different defensive tackles who can excel enjoying subsequent to Carter, 2) the Eagles have a possible in-house substitute for Williams in Moro Ojomo, and three) the 2025 NFL Draft is loaded with DT expertise. It’s unlucky the Eagles can’t maintain Williams however letting him stroll is the appropriate name for them. His departure will assist the Birds on the subject of buying compensatory picks within the 2026 NFL Draft.

MY TAKE: Go.

JORDAN DAVIS

STATS: 388 snaps, 27 complete tackles, 1 sack, 3 TFLs, 0 pressured fumbles, 1 QB hit, 12 QB hurries, 2 move deflections

PLAYOFF STATS: 57 snaps, 6 complete tackles, 2 sacks, 2 TFLs, 0 pressured fumbles, 2 QB hits, 3 QB hurries, 1 move deflection

REVIEW: After logging 519 snaps (45%) in 2023, Davis solely logged 388 snaps (37%) this season. Together with the playoffs, the 2022 first-round choose performed the fourth-most snaps of any Eagles defensive sort out. Davis’ influence arguably goes past the field rating since he’s typically tasked with consuming area. And he really did present up with some huge performs within the stat sheet throughout the postseason; he doubled his sack complete from the common season.

OUTLOOK: Declaring Davis a bust is clearly too harsh. However it’s honest to say he hasn’t precisely lived as much as excessive expectations related to being the No. 13 general choose. It’ll be very attention-grabbing to see how the Eagles deal with his contract state of affairs transferring ahead. 2025 is the final 12 months of Davis’s rookie contract however the Eagles should resolve to train his fifth-year possibility or not by the Could 1 deadline. In the event that they do choose it up, they’ll be handing over a completely assured $11.7 million worth to Davis for the 2026 season. That’s some huge cash for a participant who was principally DT4 this previous season. And based mostly on that utilization, it doesn’t appear to be Vic Fangio goes to massively broaden his function transferring ahead.

MY TAKE: Keep.

MORO OJOMO

STATS: 388 snaps, 20 complete tackles, 0 sacks, 0 TFLs, 0 pressured fumble, 5 QB hits, 33 QB hurries, 0 move deflections

PLAYOFF STATS: 102 snaps, 7 complete tackles, 1 sack, 2 TFLs, 0 pressured fumbles, 1 QB hit, 7 QB hurries, 0 move deflections

REVIEW: Ojomo went from solely enjoying 68 snaps as a rookie in 2023 to being DT3/DT4 in 2024. He performed the identical quantity of normal season snaps as Davis and he performed greater than Davis within the playoffs. Ojomo was extra disruptive than zero sacks would point out; he ranked twentieth out of 119 inside defenders in Professional Soccer Focus’s Cross Rush Productiveness charge.

OUTLOOK: With Williams more likely to go away in free company, there’s a chance for Ojomo to have an even bigger function in Yr 3. There’s purpose to imagine he could make one other leap in his improvement.

MY TAKE: Keep.

THOMAS BOOKER

STATS: 166 snaps, 18 complete tackles, 1 sack, 2 TFLs, 0 pressured fumbles, 2 QB hits, 3 QB hurries, 1 move deflection

PLAYOFF STATS: 11 snaps

REVIEW: After initially becoming a member of Philly’s observe squad in 2023, Booker signed a futures contract to spend the 2024 offseason with the Eagles. As soon as thought of a protracted shot to make the workforce, Booker performed nicely sufficient final summer time to earn a roster spot as a depth defensive sort out. Though he solely performed sparingly, he did do some good issues at any time when he was on the sector.

OUTLOOK: Booker is signed via 2025. I feel it’s honest to imagine the 25-year-old may be capable to tackle an even bigger function within the Eagles’ DT rotation. On the very least, he might be a great DT5 to have round once more subsequent season.

MY TAKE: Keep.

BYRON YOUNG

REVIEW: The Eagles claimed Byron Younger off waivers in late August and waived Marlon Tuipulotu in favor of him. Younger was a wholesome scratch for each sport till the Eagles positioned him on injured reserve in late October. The workforce opened Younger’s observe window in early January to permit him to take reps for 3 weeks. They by no means appeared intent on really including him again to the roster.

OUTLOOK: The Eagles added Younger — the No. 70 general choose from the 2023 NFL Draft — as a result of they worth the 24-year-old’s potential. In his first offseason with the Eagles, Younger may have a chance to show he deserves to make the common season roster, probably as DT5 or DT6. Not going to imagine he sticks round however it’s attainable he does.

MY TAKE: Go.

GABE HALL

REVIEW: The Eagles initially signed Corridor as an undrafted rookie free agent following the 2024 NFL Draft. He spent your complete season on the observe squad earlier than signing to the Eagles’ offseason roster after Tremendous Bowl LIX.

OUTLOOK: Corridor will probably be preventing an uphill battle to make the Eagles’ 2025 common season roster however he’ll get an opportunity in offseason practices and preseason video games to point out he belongs.

MY TAKE: Go.

NFL FREE AGENCY OR TRADES

Williams will probably go away in free company and I don’t see the Eagles spending huge cash to switch him. It’s simpler to ascertain them including depth to the place, if something.

San Francisco 49ers normal supervisor John Lynch mentioned former Eagles defensive sort out Javon Hargrave goes to be launched as a post-June 1 lower. If any new cash he makes goes to merely offset what the Niners already owe him, it doesn’t actually matter what he’s going to be paid on his subsequent deal. It’ll be extra about which groups he needs to play for … and possibly he needs to return to Philly.

The Chicago Bears just lately launched DeMarcus Walker, who overlapped with Vic Fangio on the Denver Broncos from 2019-2020.

Mario Edwards Jr. has some Eagles connections. Howie Roseman unsuccessfully tried to assert him off waivers in 2018. He additionally overlapped with Eagles senior defensive assistant/line of defense coach Clint Hurtt on the Seattle Seahawks in 2023.

Outdated pal Marlon Tuipulotu will probably be a free agent.

NFL DRAFT APPROACH

There’s a great likelihood the Eagles will take a defensive sort out with the No. 32 choose within the 2025 NFL Draft. This 12 months’s DT class is claimed to be loaded. Names generally linked to the Eagles in mock drafts embody: Darius Alexander, T.J. Sanders, Walter Nolen, Tyleik Williams, and Shemar Turner. It’ll be stunning if the Eagles don’t draft a defensive sort out earlier than Day 3.