Lane Johnson, Saquon Barkley, and Nick Sirianni would benefit most from a Super Bowl title for the Eagles
Players, coaches, and general managers alike can boost their Hall of Fame chances by carrying away the Lombardi Trophy. Here are the Eagles who stand to gain the most from a win.

NEW ORLEANS — Terrell Davis ran for just 7,607 yards, gained more than 1,200 yards just three times, played just four full NFL seasons, and retired after seven. But he’s in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Davis won two Super Bowls.
Russ Grimm, the most versatile, cleverest, and toughest of “The Hogs” offensive line back in Washington’s heyday, averaged only 10 starts in his injury-riddled 11 years and made the Pro Bowl just four times. But Grimm, too, is in the Hall. Grimm won three Super Bowls.
For legacies, winning it all matters. For branding, winning it all matters. For paydays, winning it all matters.
So, which Eagles would benefit most from a win over the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl LIX on Sunday?
Good question.
1. RT Lane Johnson
He has six Pro Bowls to his name but just two first-team All-Pro appointments, and he’s salty about it.
Johnson is, arguably, the best tackle in Eagles history, perhaps the best long-term player in Eagles history, and perhaps the best tackle in the NFL since he was drafted fourth overall in 2013, when judged by his 12-year body of work. These credentials alone, along with a Super Bowl title after the 2017 season, could be sufficient for Johnson to win election to the Hall. However, Johnson was twice suspended for violating the NFL’s PED policy, and Hall voters can be a cantankerous bunch.
If he leads the league’s best offensive line to Super Bowls after the 2017, 2022, and 2024 seasons and wins twice, his argument would be ironclad.
2. RB Saquon Barkley
He’s fewer than 400 rushing yards behind Davis’ career mark, he already has three seasons with at least 1,200 rushing yards, and, like Davis, he’s got three Pro Bowl nods. Both have a 2,000-yard season — Barkley had 2,005 this season, Davis had 2,008 in 1998 — but Davis has two Super Bowl wins. Sure, he won them with John Elway, Mike Shanahan, and Shannon Sharpe, but win them he did. Barkley has had two winning seasons.
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A Super Bowl title to punctuate a campaign in which Barkley is perceived to have saved the jobs of Jalen Hurts and Nick Sirianni might make all the difference when the Hall voters consider Barkley.
3. Coach Nick Sirianni
The narrative, right or wrong, is that Sirianni faltered in 2023 when he lost his coordinators to head coaching jobs and hired ineffective replacements. The narrative, right or wrong, is that GM Howie Roseman and owner Jeffrey Lurie hired Vic Fangio to run the defense as a virtually autonomous co-head coach and hired Kellen Moore to remove Sirianni from scheme construction, game planning, and play-calling.
Those narratives, right or wrong, will evaporate if Sirianni wins Super Bowl LIX. He will be a two-time Super Bowl coach with a win. He will be the most successful from-scratch coach in history. And, if he beats (reported) $20 million man Andy Reid, Sirianni could command a salary that might triple his current $7 million deal, which expires after the 2025 season.
4. GM Howie Roseman
Ron Wolf built winners by the Bays — both Tampa and Green — but he was GM of only one Super Bowl winner, which made him a god in Wisconsin. Bill Polian built the perennial bridesmaids in Buffalo before winning his only Super Bowl, in Indianapolis. Both are in the Hall. Both dealt with free agency and a salary cap for only part of their careers.
Roseman has mastered player movement and the cap, and if he reaches three Super Bowls in eight years and wins two of them, he’ll have a strong chance to join the likes of Polian and Wolf.
5. QB Jalen Hurts
Why is Hurts so low? Why isn’t he No. 1?
Because analytics have surpassed empiricism in player evaluation. Just being a Super Bowl Winning Quarterback doesn’t matter as much as it used to. Air yards and Expected Points Added have made mundane metrics like completion percentage and winning percentage less meaningful, and, in general, less relevant.
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However, it’s fair to argue that Hurts has been as efficient and maybe more valuable than Tom Brady and Ben Roethlisberger through each of their first five seasons as starters. The difference: Brady and Roethlisberger each had at least two Lombardi Trophies by then.
6. Owner Jeffrey Lurie
Most owners inducted into the Hall have done more than just own teams. Several also were GMs, like Al Davis and Jerry Jones, while others were pioneer masters of the game, like Paul Brown and George Halas.
No one will ever mistake Jeffrey Lurie for George Halas, and he hasn’t won like Art and Dan Rooney, but a second Super Bowl win during a 25-year run of relevance is, at least, another step toward immortality for Lurie.
Honorably mentioned
Wide receivers A.J. Brown and DeVonta Smith are each averaging more than 1,000 yards per season in their combined seven seasons with the Eagles, and both look to do so for several more seasons, so winning a Super Bowl for them might not be as necessary for a Hall run as their bosses and teammates.
Similarly, while offensive linemen Jordan Mailata and Landon Dickerson are having superb beginnings to their careers, each needs about six or seven more such seasons, injury-free, at the top of his game on winning teams to warrant Hall consideration — a tough ask for players playing their positions.