The Eagles’ Pro Bowl wall at the Jefferson Health Training Complex already has plenty of familiar faces, but there’s room for more names to get added in 2026.
Philadelphia sent five players to the Pro Bowl in 2025: Zack Baun, Jalen Carter, Cooper DeJean, Quinyon Mitchell and Cam Jurgens. DeJean and Mitchell got there for the first time, while Jalen Hurts was later added as an alternate. With Jonathan Greenard and Riq Woolen left out of the mix because they’ve already been Pro Bowlers with other teams, there are a handful of Eagles who could be next in line.
DeVonta Smith feels like the cleanest bet to make a jump. After months of speculation, the Eagles traded A.J.
Brown to the Patriots this offseason, which puts Smith in the WR1 spot for the first time since his rookie year in 2021. That role comes with a real chance to explode under new offensive coordinator Sean Mannion, especially if the new offense brings out more of what Smith does best.
The Eagles believe he’s still only scratching the surface of what he can be.
The production has already been there. Smith has topped 1,000 yards per season on average over his five NFL years, and his best stretch came in 2022 when he nearly hit 1,200 yards.
He drew 136 targets that season, though his other four years have averaged 104.5 targets. If that number climbs into the 140-150 range, 2026 could get very loud very fast.
The obstacle is the NFC receiver group, which still includes Jaxon Smith-Njigba, Puka Nacua, CeeDee Lamb, George Pickens, Amon-Ra St. Brown and Justin Jefferson.
Jordan Mailata is another name that keeps hovering around the Pro Bowl conversation without getting the full reward. He’s been one of the NFL’s best tackles for a while, but the recognition has lagged behind.
Maybe that’s because Lane Johnson has soaked up some of the spotlight. Maybe it’s because the idea of a former rugby player dominating in the NFL still feels novel to some people.
Either way, Mailata has been the Eagles’ full-time starting left tackle for six seasons and has been excellent.
His lone major honor so far is a second-team All-Pro selection in 2024, along with being named ProFootballFocus’s best overall player. PFF ranked him as the league’s sixth-best tackle last season, behind only Penei Sewell, Tristan Wirfs, Trent Williams, Garett Bolles and Andrew Thomas. Sewell, Wirfs and Williams were the NFC offensive tackles last year.
Jordan Davis also has a strong case after what he did in 2025. If there was an Eagles player who could legitimately point to a Pro Bowl snub, it was Davis.
He started all 17 games and put together a breakout season with 4 1/2 sacks, 72 tackles, 6 pass breakups, 9 TFLs and 6 QB hits. Along the way, he was named NFC Defensive Player of the Week and NFC Special Teams Player of the Week.
When a player gets left out, it helps to identify who was more deserving. In Davis’ case, the answer was hard to find.
Jalen Carter had a down year, and Quinnen Williams played only half of last season in the NFC. The Eagles clearly value Davis, too.
He signed a three-year, $78 million extension this offseason, making him the highest paid nose tackle ever, and he’s now under contract through the 2029 season.
Dallas Goedert belongs in this conversation every year, and every year the same basic issue comes up: he’s productive, but he’s never been a Pro Bowler. Last season, he caught 60 passes for 591 yards and a career-high 11 touchdowns. His best yardage season came in 2021, when he finished with 830 receiving yards, and he hasn’t gone over 600 in any of the last three seasons.
The Eagles’ offseason changes could help him. Brown is gone, and while a chunk of those targets should go to Smith, Goedert could see more work as well.
Philadelphia also drafted Eli Stowers in the second round, but Goedert is still the clear TE1 as he returns on a one-year deal in 2026. The NFC tight end spots won’t be easy to crack, though, with George Kittle and Trey McBride setting the standard.
Kittle is a seven-time Pro Bowler, and McBride is a two-time Pro Bowler after a massive 2025 season with 126 catches, 1,239 yards and 11 touchdowns.
Jalyx Hunt is the wildcard with the biggest upward arrow. If he keeps improving at the pace he showed in his first two NFL seasons, he could be ready for a Pro Bowl leap.
In 2025, Hunt became the first player in franchise history to lead the Eagles in both sacks and interceptions in the same season. He finished with 6 1/2 sacks and 3 interceptions while playing 62% of the defensive snaps.
Greenard is set to be the Eagles’ top edge rusher in 2026, but Hunt and Nolan Smith should still log plenty of snaps. The Pro Bowl takes three defensive ends and outside linebackers, and the 2025 group included Aidan Hutchinson, Micah Parsons and DeMarcus Lawrence at defensive end, with Brian Burns, Jared Verse and Byron Young at outside linebacker. Verse is now in Cleveland, though he was part of the trade that brought Myles Garrett to the Rams and the NFC.
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