{"id":143276,"date":"2025-06-19T21:50:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T21:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/143276\/"},"modified":"2025-06-19T21:50:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T21:50:10","slug":"eagles-trade-could-flop-as-receiver-being-phased-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/143276\/","title":{"rendered":"Eagles Trade Could Flop As Receiver Being Phased Out"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eagles Trade Could Flop As Receiver Being Phased Out<\/a> originally appeared on Athlon Sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Philadelphia Eagles have a well-earned reputation as a franchise that makes daring acquisitions … with big payoffs.<\/p>\n

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Jahan Dotson \u2014 with a future uncertain heading into the 2025 season \u2014 has not been one of the “big payoff” names.<\/p>\n

Philly first declined his fifth-year option in April, making him a free agent after this season. So he might not have a long-term future here.<\/p>\n

And what about the short term?<\/p>\n

The Eagles traded for Dotson from the division rival Washington Commanders a year ago, sending a third-round pick and two seventh-rounders for the former first-round selection.<\/p>\n

It seemed a steep price. But what if Dotson realized his potential here?<\/p>\n

But no. In 17 regular-season games, he managed just 19 receptions for 216 yards and no TDs.<\/p>\n

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He is capable of more; as a rookie with Washington, he caught 35 passes for 523 yards and seven touchdowns.<\/p>\n

But here? A.J. Brown (27) and DeVonta Smith (26) are the top guys. Johnny Wilson, at 6-foot-6 and 235 pounds, may be coming on. And the same with\u00a0Ainias Smith from the Texas A&M Aggies.<\/p>\n

Terrace Marshall Jr.,\u00a0Avery Williams,\u00a0Elijah Cooks and Danny Gray are also available to fill out the roster.<\/p>\n

Training camp will matter here. Brown and Smith do plenty, and Philly can rely on Saquon Barkley and Jalen Hurts in the running game and more. But a third receiver was the idea of that trade …<\/p>\n

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And right now that trade looks like a rare flop from GM Howie Roseman.<\/p>\n

Related: ESPN Links Eagles To Possible Signing of Asante Samuel Jr.<\/a><\/p>\n

This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports<\/a> on Jun 19, 2025, where it first appeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eagles Trade Could Flop As Receiver Being Phased Out originally appeared on Athlon Sports. The Philadelphia Eagles have…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2068],"tags":[8694,10489,22251,15457,5640,25,23558,1972,7,7191,492,10490,6,242,109,2476,894,111],"class_list":{"0":"post-143276","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia-eagles","8":"tag-a-j-brown","9":"tag-ainias-smith","10":"tag-avery-williams","11":"tag-danny-gray","12":"tag-devonta-smith","13":"tag-eagles","14":"tag-elijah-cooks","15":"tag-first-round-selection","16":"tag-football","17":"tag-jahan-dotson","18":"tag-jalen-hurts","19":"tag-johnny-wilson","20":"tag-nfl","21":"tag-philadelphia","22":"tag-philadelphia-eagles","23":"tag-philadelphiaeagles","24":"tag-saquon-barkley","25":"tag-washington-commanders"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114712243521352396","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143276","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=143276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}