Your Eagles guide to free agency, Part I: What changes and new faces are coming on offense?

A week from now, the NFL’s new league year begins, the free-agency frenzy kicks off, and rosters for the 2026 NFL season will start taking shape.

For the Eagles, a crucial offseason is underway. They moved on from offensive coordinator Kevin Patullo after the offense took a big step back in 2025, and replaced him with first-year coordinator Sean Mannion, who will bring a new scheme to an offense in need of a jolt.

The Eagles have 20 total pending free agents and a few holes to fill, but, as of now, only have around $14 million in cap space, according to Over the Cap, before making any moves to clear room.

How will they approach free agency? What new faces could be coming to town?

Let’s start our two-part free agency preview with a position-by-position look at the offense.

Why start here? Well, it’s the obvious place to start, because the entire offseason approach sort of revolves around what happens with A.J. Brown.

Will the Eagles trade him or keep him? They’re certainly going to listen to offers, and it’s likely a resolution comes sooner than later given how the move could shape the rest of the Eagles’ offseason.

With or without Brown, though, the Eagles need reinforcements at wide receiver. They’re losing Jahan Dotson in free agency and need a WR3 (or WR2, depending on Brown). It’s a position the Eagles likely will add talent to during the draft, but there are options in free agency, too.

Romeo Doubs: The fit is obvious. Doubs, who turns 26 next month, was with Mannion in Green Bay, where last season he caught 55 passes for 724 yards and six touchdowns. He’s a good route runner who has produced in each of his first four NFL seasons since the Packers drafted him 132nd overall out of Nevada in 2022. It is not a loaded class, which means Doubs could be pricier than he normally would be.

Deebo Samuel: Perhaps his beef with the Eagles could be squashed. Samuel is 30 now and the burst that made him a big-name receiver with the stats to back it up seems to come and go. Will Samuel’s market be too rich for the Eagles? It’s hard to imagine given his age, but he did still rack up 72 catches for 727 yards and five touchdowns with Washington last season.

Christian Kirk: Kirk, 29, is due for a pay cut after injuries led to a decline in his statistical output with Jacksonville and Houston over the past two seasons. With the Texans, Kirk was surrounded by talent and that limited his production, too. But with Nico Collins out for the playoffs, Kirk broke out in a playoff win over Pittsburgh, catching eight of nine targets for 144 yards and a touchdown. He caught another touchdown the next week in a loss to New England. Could Kirk be available a little bit cheaper on a one-year deal? The Eagles may want to find out.

Other names to watch: Jalen Nailor, Kendrick Bourne, Van Jefferson

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The Eagles are returning all five starters for the 2026 season along the offensive line, but it also may be the most important offseason for roster building at the position in quite some time.

And it’s all happening without longtime position coach Jeff Stoutland in the fold.

Lane Johnson and Landon Dickerson weighed retirement until recently. Cam Jurgens flew to Colombia to treat his ailing back. Tyler Steen’s long-term viability at right guard is up for debate.

There’s a lot to address. Let’s start with Johnson, whose eventual replacement most likely will come via the draft. Don’t be surprised to see the Eagles take a tackle with their first pick. But they also need a swing tackle with Fred Johnson as a free agent. There are two second-year tackles on the roster in Cameron Williams and Myles Hinton, but Johnson’s ability to get through a full season isn’t a lock, so the Eagles need contingency plans.

They are relatively thin on the interior, more so than at tackle. Long-term replacements for Dickerson and potentially elsewhere are more likely to come via the draft, but the Eagles will need to mine the free-agency market.

Evan Neal: Neal fits the Eagles’ playbook. No, not Mannion’s playbook. Neal, 25, is a first-round pick (seventh overall in 2022) who has been a bust and even changed positions from tackle to guard. He’s 6-foot-7 and 340 pounds. Hello, Mekhi Becton? Stoutland isn’t around to have the same kind of makeover, but Neal will be a pretty cheap flier.

Isaac Seumalo: Another guard, Seumalo, an Eagle from 2016-22, is a 32-year-old who made the Pro Bowl in 2024 with the Steelers. Unlike Neal, Seumalo isn’t a project. He’s a player you sign to start over Steen and be in the building for Dickerson insurance.

Alijah Vera-Tucker: Vera-Tucker has been really solid for the Jets, but he’s coming off a torn triceps that wiped out his 2025 season and could be available on a one-year, prove-it deal. The 14th overall pick in the 2021 draft would push Steen in camp and could earn the starting job while giving the Eagles more plug-and-play depth than they have right now.

Trey Pipkins III: It’s time to put a tackle on this list. Pipkins wasn’t great with the Chargers in 2025, but he’s started a lot of games in seven seasons and could be an option for a reliable swing tackle behind the Eagles’ starters.

Other names to watch: James Daniels, Fred Johnson

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Welcome to the biggest area of need for the Eagles, due respect to Jaheim Bell, Cam Latu, and E.J. Jenkins, the three tight ends on the roster.

Dallas Goedert is a free agent after coming back last season on a restructured deal and scoring more touchdowns (11) than he had in the previous three seasons combined (8). But while he was a major red-zone weapon running routes, Goedert’s blocking took a step back. Grant Calcaterra, the Eagles’ sixth-round pick in 2022, is also a free agent and is best used as a receiver. The Eagles certainly need to add a pass catcher or two at this spot, but the scheme they’re turning to will also require much better blocking.

The Eagles probably will draft a tight end, but they need to add in free agency as well. They seem likely to be priced out of the top of the market — think Kyle Pitts, David Njoku — in what is a relatively weak free-agent class.

Goedert: What will Goedert command on the open market? How will teams view his 11 touchdown receptions after he finally got through a season mostly healthy? He’s still just 31 years old and thinks some of his best football is ahead of him. If the number isn’t too high, the Eagles could bring him back.

Isaiah Likely: It’s unclear what Likely’s market is going to be in free agency. The soon-to-be-26-year-old has been playing in Mark Andrews’ shadow in Baltimore, and has probably benefited from having talented pass catchers around him. But Likely has shown flashes, and the Eagles could get in the mix for him. A weak class, though, means he could fetch more than some teams are willing to spend.

Jake Tonges: Tonges is limited in his catching abilities, but he’s an elite blocking tight end that the Eagles could certainly value as TE2 or TE3. Tonges, who turns 27 in July, has been with the 49ers since 2023 and knows how to block up outside zone concepts.

Tyler Higbee: Higbee recently turned 33 and has played just 13 games over the last two seasons. He would add an experienced red-zone target to the offense, but most importantly Higbee is a solid blocker in the run and pass game.

Charlie Kolar: Kolar’s running mate in Baltimore, Likely, is the better and more expensive option on the free-agent market. But Kolar, 27, is one of the better blocking tight ends in the league.

Other names to watch: Robert Tonyan, Nick Vannett

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This position, like receiver, also has a trade possibility that could impact how the Eagles address it in free agency.

That depends on whether Tanner McKee fetches a draft pick that makes him worth offloading. The Eagles value the backup quarterback spot, and behind Jalen Hurts, McKee is the only quarterback under contract for 2026. The Eagles probably will take another quarterback on Day 3 at the draft, but they could add to the group in free agency, too, especially for another camp body. Last year, they drafted Kyle McCord in the sixth round and were later forced to part with draft compensation to bring in Sam Howell in the QB3 spot.

Howell: Keep the band together? Howell is a free agent and still has much more NFL playing experience than McKee. He didn’t see the field for the Eagles last season, but they could do worse than bringing him back to the room.

Trey Lance: The No. 3 overall pick in the 2021 draft is still just 25 years old and was with his third NFL team this season when he backed up the Chargers’ Justin Herbert. Lance spent his first two seasons with the 49ers in the Kyle Shanahan offense, from which the Eagles likely will install elements during the offseason. Can’t hurt to have a player in the building with some experience hearing calls from the man himself.

Clayton Tune: Another one for the translator category. Tune, a fifth-round pick by Arizona in 2023, was on Green Bay’s practice squad last season and could help Hurts and Co. transition into the Mannion offense and terminology.

Other names to watch: Kenny Pickett, Brett Rypien