It is being reported that Eagles DT Jordan Davis has been traded to the Jacksonville Jaguars for a 2027 1st round pick and a 2029 2nd round pick. This is a shocker considering the team just gave Davis a huge 3/$78m extension in the offseason. His deal came with a near $19m signing bonus.
For the Eagles, this means taking on a $15.5m dead cap hit for 2027 rather than the $8.5m he was scheduled to play under. However, the team does save about $1m this season.
By my math, this means the Eagles will be down to around $26m in space for next season. See below. I’ll update that by Tuesday night after the deadline.
What this means is that the Eagles are very serious about NOT trading Moro Ojomo and are actually trying to extend him. This has not been a smokescreen.
This is a huge haul for Davis considering immediately after signing his new deal after a breakout 2025, he fell back down to Earth. The Eagles now have a bunch of extra high picks coming the next 3 seasons:
- 2027: extra 1st from Jacksonville (Davis)
- 2028: extra 1st from New England (AJ Brown); extra 2nd from Baltimore (Jurgens)
- 2029: extra 2nd from Jacksonville (Davis)
The Jaguars part in this is to add Davis for very little this season, just their prorated portion of his minimum salary. As for next year though, they would only be facing a cap charge of his minimum salary and 1/5th of his $17.1m option bonus. In total that means a cap hit of less than $5m for Davis. His 2027 salary is fully guaranteed while his over $25m salary for 2028 guarantees on the third day of the league new year, March 14-ish.
The Jaguars are a very good team and got better today. They will make the playoffs. Eagles fans have to hope that they do not get the #1 seed in the AFC and lose in the first round of the playoffs. If that happens, this pick could land anywhere between #19 and #24.
More to Come
Sources: Spotrac.com and overthecap.com
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