The Eagles were active all through August in 2025, but this year’s roster cutdown window came and went without the usual Howie Roseman shuffle. For a front office that has never been shy about working the phones, the quiet stood out.
Roseman said the lack of deals wasn’t because Philadelphia sat on its hands. Quite the opposite. In a recent interview, he said the Eagles were in touch with nearly everybody.
“I think from our perspective, a lot of conversations with every team - almost every team. There's a couple, maybe not so much,” Roseman said, per Dave Zangaro of NBC Sports Philadelphia.
“But I think that when we were talking to these other teams, the players they were interested in, felt like we were going to hold on to. The players maybe we were interested in, maybe they felt the same way.”
That’s a different kind of deadline-day story than the one Eagles fans got used to last August. In 2025, Philadelphia completed five trades during the month, adding John Metchie III, Jakorian Bennett, offensive lineman Fred Johnson, and others. None of those moves turned the league upside down, but they did give the roster some late summer reinforcement.
This time, Roseman said the Eagles simply didn’t find the right fit. He also made it clear the team liked the players already in the building, which made a trade-for-trade’s-sake approach unnecessary.
“With the way that practices went and the games went, there wasn't an opportunity to do some of the player-for-player trades,” Roseman added. “We like to get looks at guys.
Just because of where our numbers were. I think you guys know me well enough to know that I like the action and was trying, but it just didn't make sense for us at the time.
We would've just been doing it to make a move.”
So the front office did its part, even if the final result was a quieter stretch than usual. Now it’s on the players and coaches to turn that work into wins this fall.
Philadelphia opens the regular season at home against the Commanders in Week 1. That NFC East matchup is set for 4:25 PM ET on September 13th at Lincoln Financial Field.
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