{"id":14504,"date":"2025-05-01T06:22:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T06:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/14504\/"},"modified":"2025-05-01T06:22:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T06:22:12","slug":"philadelphia-eagles-not-ready-to-give-up-on-jordan-davis-pick-up-fifth-year-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/14504\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Eagles not ready to give up on Jordan Davis, pick up fifth-year option"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsnaut.com\/tag\/philadelphia-eagles\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Philadelphia Eagles;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Philadelphia Eagles<\/a> decided Wednesday to pick up the fifth-year option on defensive tackle Jordan Davis, committing to the former first-rounder despite his decreasing role in the defense.<\/p>\n<p>Davis, selected out of <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsnaut.com\/tag\/georgia-bulldogs\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Georgia;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Georgia<\/a> in the first round of the 2022 NFL Draft, arrived in Philadelphia surrounded by high expectations that he has yet to fulfill as he enters his fourth season. Conditioning issues have hampered his development and limited his impact.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The massive nose tackle\u2019s playing time tells the story of his career trajectory. In 2023, Davis participated in 45% of defensive snaps, but that figure dropped to 37% last season under defensive coordinator Vic Fangio, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/eagles\/eagles-jordan-davis-contract-option-ty-robinson-20250430.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The Philadelphia Inquirer\u2019s E.J. Smith;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">The Philadelphia Inquirer\u2019s E.J. Smith<\/a>. Davis found himself primarily deployed on early downs within Fangio\u2019s defensive tackle rotation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe 6-foot-6, 336-pound nose tackle has proved to be stingy against the run and has started 39 games over the last four years as a result, but often comes off the field for passing situations in favor of more effective interior rushers,\u201d writes Smith.<\/p>\n<p>While Davis has registered just 3.5 career regular-season sacks, he did show flashes of pass-rush ability during last year\u2019s playoff run, notching one sack in both the NFC Championship game and Super Bowl.<\/p>\n<p>By exercising the option, the Eagles have committed a fully guaranteed $12.9 million to Davis for the 2026 season. The move signals that general manager Howie Roseman and the front office remain believers in Davis\u2019 ability to elevate his performance in his critical fourth NFL campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Related Headlines<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Philadelphia Eagles decided Wednesday to pick up the fifth-year option on defensive tackle Jordan Davis, committing to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14505,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2068],"tags":[2793,25,7,479,6,242,109,2476,7960],"class_list":{"0":"post-14504","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia-eagles","8":"tag-defensive-tackle","9":"tag-eagles","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-jordan-davis","12":"tag-nfl","13":"tag-philadelphia","14":"tag-philadelphia-eagles","15":"tag-philadelphiaeagles","16":"tag-vic-fangio"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114431141268863316","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14504","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=14504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}