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Eagles Named ‘Best Landing Spot’ for Former No. 1 Pick<\/a> originally appeared on Athlon Sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Philadelphia Eagles will head into the 2025 NFL season as the defending champions after defeating the Kansas City Chiefs in the Super Bowl last season.<\/p>\n

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A lot has changed since that Super Bowl win occurred. During the offseason, the Eagles lost quite a few key pieces, especially on the defensive side of the football.<\/p>\n

Among the key departures were pass rushers Josh Sweat and Milton Williams. They also saw Darius Slay, C.J. Gardner-Johnson, and Isaiah Rodgers leave town.<\/p>\n

Howie Roseman has not made a lot of noise late in the offseason. However, there is a chance that he could consider dipping into the free agency market to add another defensive piece. Adding to the pass rush would be a wise move to make for Philadelphia.<\/p>\n

Keeping that in mind, the Eagles have been connected as a possible landing spot for one interesting free agent option.<\/p>\n

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Bleacher Report analyst Matt Holder recently took a look<\/a> at the top potential landing spots for a few defensive free agents. One of those free agents was none other than Jadeveon Clowney.<\/p>\n

Holder believes that Philadelphia would be a top suitor for Clowney.<\/p>\n

“The Eagles\u2019 defense took a lot of hits this offseason, including losing Josh Sweat in free agency,” Holder wrote. “While Nolan Smith Jr. and Jalyx Hunt are expected to take over, in addition to pass-rush specialists Azeez Ojulari and Joshua Uche, it couldn\u2019t hurt to bring in Clowney as an insurance policy.”<\/p>\n

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Philadelphia Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni\u00a9 Bill Streicher-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

Clowney is coming off of a 2024 NFL season with the Carolina Panthers that saw him play in 14 games. He racked up 46 tackles, 5.5 sacks, and four defended passes.<\/p>\n

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While he has never lived up to the hype that he received when he was the No. 1 overall pick in the 2014 NFL draft, Clowney would still be worth taking a flier on.<\/p>\n

It’s possible that the Eagles will have no interest in Clowney. However, it would not hurt to bring him in and see what he has left in the tank.<\/p>\n

Related: Eagles Earn Least-Surprising Position-Group Ranking In Entire NFL<\/a><\/p>\n

This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports<\/a> on Jul 8, 2025, where it first appeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eagles Named ‘Best Landing Spot’ for Former No. 1 Pick originally appeared on Athlon Sports. The Philadelphia Eagles…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191946,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2068],"tags":[10035,1172,260,9313,32791,25,7,1641,9714,4893,10167,7522,18582,110,7891,6,242,109,2476,425],"class_list":{"0":"post-191945","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia-eagles","8":"tag-azeez-ojulari","9":"tag-c-j-gardner-johnson","10":"tag-carolina-panthers","11":"tag-darius-slay","12":"tag-defensive-free-agents","13":"tag-eagles","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-howie-roseman","16":"tag-isaiah-rodgers","17":"tag-jadeveon-clowney","18":"tag-jalyx-hunt","19":"tag-josh-sweat","20":"tag-joshua-uche","21":"tag-kansas-city-chiefs","22":"tag-milton-williams","23":"tag-nfl","24":"tag-philadelphia","25":"tag-philadelphia-eagles","26":"tag-philadelphiaeagles","27":"tag-the-eagles"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114819878635971665","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191945","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=191945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}