{"id":496861,"date":"2025-11-03T13:23:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T13:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/496861\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T13:23:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T13:23:13","slug":"jaelan-phillips-traded-dolphins-send-pass-rusher-to-eagles-ahead-of-nfl-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/496861\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaelan Phillips traded: Dolphins send pass rusher to Eagles ahead of NFL deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Article-featuredImageImg\" alt=\"jaelan.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/jaelan.png\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"433\" width=\"770\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>The Miami\u00a0<a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nfl\/teams\/MIA\/miami-dolphins\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dolphins<\/a>\u00a0traded edge rusher <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nfl\/players\/2806235\/jaelan-phillips\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jaelan Phillips<\/a> to the Philadelphia\u00a0<a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nfl\/teams\/PHI\/philadelphia-eagles\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eagles<\/a> for a 2026 third-round NFL Draft pick, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/jjones9\/status\/1985324896612766017\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">CBS Sports insider Jonathan Jones reports<\/a>. Phillips is a pending free agent, and this move from Miami comes three days after the franchise\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nfl\/news\/dolphins-part-ways-with-gm-chris-grier-reportedly-retaining-mike-mcdaniel-as-coach-for-rest-of-season\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">parted ways with general manager Chris Grier<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Phillips has 25 tackles and three sacks in nine games for Miami.\u00a0 He only played four games last season due to a torn ACL. Phillips managed 22 sacks over his first 2.5 seasons with the Dolphins prior to an Achilles tear against the <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nfl\/teams\/NYJ\/new-york-jets\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jets<\/a> in November 2023. He returned to play those four games last season, but missed the rest of the year with a torn ACL.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Coming off last season&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/cbssports.com\/nfl\/superbowl\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Super Bowl<\/a> victory, Philadelphia slipped in the pass-rush department with 16 sacks, which is tied for 24th in the NFL. Recently-retired edge rusher\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nfl\/players\/2061139\/zadarius-smiths\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Za&#8217;Darius Smith&#8217;s<\/a>\u00a01.5 sacks are the fourth-most on the team he last played for the Eagles in Week 6.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>General manager Howie Roseman made it a point to go after proven talent off the edge and Phillips fills a need for the Eagles. Roseman said in October that the Eagles keep roster enhancement at the forefront of franchise importance.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t sit here, no matter what the year is, no matter what the time of the year is, and feel content with what we&#8217;re doing,&#8221; Roseman said. &#8220;I&#8217;m the first one to admit we will make some mistakes. But I promise you we&#8217;re going to keep shooting. We&#8217;re going to do our best to put together the best team that we possibly can.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Eagles (6-2) lead the NFC East and play the Packers at Lambeau Field next Monday night before hosting the Lions in back-to-back primetime matchups.<\/p>\n<p>This is the Eagles&#8217; third successful trade in the last week after previously adding cornerbacks Jaire Alexander and Michael Carter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Getty Images The Miami\u00a0Dolphins\u00a0traded edge rusher Jaelan Phillips to the Philadelphia\u00a0Eagles for a 2026 third-round NFL Draft pick,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":496862,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4955,4835,1999,7,16251,492,251,80451,80452,4836,6,24182,109,3452],"class_list":{"0":"post-496861","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-2026-nfl-draft","9":"tag-chris-grier","10":"tag-fantasy-football","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-jaelan-phillips","13":"tag-jalen-hurts","14":"tag-miami-dolphins","15":"tag-miami-dolphins-gm","16":"tag-miami-dolphins-gm-fired","17":"tag-mike-mcdaniel","18":"tag-nfl","19":"tag-nfl-trade-deadline","20":"tag-philadelphia-eagles","21":"tag-tua-tagovailoa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115485986515482729","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496861","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=496861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}