{"id":135482,"date":"2025-06-16T22:52:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T22:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/135482\/"},"modified":"2025-06-16T22:52:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T22:52:10","slug":"eagles-panthers-on-shortlist-for-justin-simmons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/135482\/","title":{"rendered":"Eagles, Panthers On &#8216;Shortlist&#8217; For Justin Simmons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interest in free agent safety <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/S\/SimmJu00.htm?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.profootballrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-06-16_pfr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Justin Simmons<\/a> has started to build as teams wrap up mandatory minicamp and plan their summer roster moves.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cdn.profootballrumors.com\/files\/2022\/06\/USATSI_18261550.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-256159 size-medium\" style=\"border: 2px solid #000000;margin: 15px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/USATSI_18261550-222x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"222\" height=\"300\"  \/><\/a>The Eagles and the Panthers are on a \u201cshortlist\u201d to land the nine-year veteran, according to ESPN\u2019s Jeremy Fowler (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nfl\/eagles\/news\/eagles-on-shortlist-for-4-time-all-pro-pat3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">via Sports Illustrated\u2019s Patrick McAvoy<\/a>). Both teams could use the safety depth after moving on from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/G\/GardCh00.htm?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.profootballrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-06-16_pfr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">C.J. Gardner-Johnson<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/W\/WoodXa00.htm?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.profootballrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-06-16_pfr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Xavier Woods<\/a> this offseason, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Simmons is coming off somewhat of a down year in Atlanta after earning Pro Bowl or second-team All-Pro honors in his previous five seasons in Denver. That period included three years under then-Broncos head coach\u00a0Vic Fangio, who is now the Eagles\u2019 defensive coordinator. Simmons has played some of his best football in Fangio\u2019s two-high defenses and could look to reunite with his former coach this year.<\/p>\n<p>Simmons is familiar with Panthers DC Ejiro Evero, as well. He held the same position in Denver in 2022, when Simmons recorded a career-high six interceptions. Evero also spent the 2021 season in Los Angeles under Raheem Morris, who coached Simmons in Atlanta last year.<\/p>\n<p>The Panthers have reached out to Simmons\u2019 representation, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/josephperson\/status\/1934701473813741640\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">per Joe Person of The Athletic<\/a>, though no deal is imminent. He earned $7.5MM from the Falcons last year and is likely looking for similar compensation for the 2025 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Interest in free agent safety Justin Simmons has started to build as teams wrap up mandatory minicamp and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135483,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2068],"tags":[260,25,7,6559,6,242,109,2476],"class_list":{"0":"post-135482","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia-eagles","8":"tag-carolina-panthers","9":"tag-eagles","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-justin-simmons","12":"tag-nfl","13":"tag-philadelphia","14":"tag-philadelphia-eagles","15":"tag-philadelphiaeagles"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114695500334245661","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}