These aren\u2019t the Eagles who had the worst seasons in 2025, they\u2019re the Eagles who had the most disappointing seasons.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Here are 10 Eagles who contributed to some extent to a Super Bowl championship in 2024 but fell short of expectations in 2025.<\/p>\n
Some will definitely be back in 2026. Cam Jurgens, Landon Dickerson, Jalen Hurts, Jalen Carter and Nolan Smith aren\u2019t going anywhere. A couple \u2013 Reed Blankenship and Grant Calcaterra – are unsigned going into free agency. And a few, like former Pro Bowlers A.J. Brown and Jake Elliott, face uncertain futures.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It was a disappointing season all-around for the Eagles a year after winning their second Super Bowl. These guys are among the reasons why.<\/p>\n
1. A.J. Brown:\u00a0Brown still had a good year and surpassed 1,000 yards for the fourth straight season and sixth time in seven seasons. But this is a guy who had close to 1,500 yards in 2022 and 2023 and from a pure talent standpoint is a top-five WR in the NFL, and he finished 18th\u00a0among WRs in receiving yards this year. But beyond the lack of production \u2013 and certainly Kevin Patullo\u2019s play calling and Jalen Hurts’ inconsistency were a part of that \u2013 are the distractions that he caused with his passive aggressive social media posts and erratic sideline behavior and how his unhappiness affected his play on the field. It\u2019s one thing to be frustrated. It\u2019s another to let it spill over into your performance, and Brown let that happen. And it\u2019s impossible to talk about him without considering how awful he was in the playoff loss to the 49ers. He can be and should be so much better than what we saw this year.<\/p>\n
2. Cam Jurgens: He made the Pro Bowl somehow, but Jurgens\u2019 play was just nowhere near what it was in his breakthrough 2024 season. Yeah, he was coming off offseason back surgery, so maybe some of it was injury-related, but he said he was healthy the second half of the season and his play never got any better. The o-line was a big part of the offense\u2019s struggles this year and Jurgens was a big part of that. When he\u2019s right, he can be so dominating at the line of scrimmage and athletic pulling and getting out in front of the play. We just didn\u2019t see that anywhere nearly at the same level this year. The Eagles need the Cam Jurgens of 2024 back in 2025.<\/p>\n
3. Landon Dickerson:\u00a0Similar to Jurgens, Dickerson is another interior lineman who was unable to repeat his 2024 performance because of injuries. The combination of a left guard and a center who were both disappointing was a major issue. The concern whether Dickerson can get back to his all-pro level is greater than Jurgens just because he\u2019s had so many different injuries and it\u2019s fair to wonder if he\u2019ll ever be able to stay totally healthy for a full season. When he\u2019s right, Dickerson is one of the most dominating interior linemen in the league. We just didn\u2019t see that guy enough this year.<\/p>\n
4. Jalen Carter:\u00a0Carter\u2019s regression was partially injury related, but two things that were within his control were his fitness level, which Vic Fangio called him out on, and the Dak Prescott incident, which cost him the opener. You give Carter credit for trying to play through those shoulder injuries, and he was better when he came back after a three-game layoff but still nowhere near the dominating force we saw in 2024. At times you could see that elite player but not consistently. Will be interesting how his step backward affects contract talks now that he\u2019s eligible for an extension.<\/p>\n
5. Nolan Smith:\u00a0After the way he finished last year, with 10 sacks in his last 16 games and a franchise-record 4.0 in the postseason, expectations were high for the Eagles\u2019 second 1st-round pick of 2023. But Smith never really got going. He was sackless in three games before missing five games with a triceps injury. After he came back, he only had 3.0 sacks in 10 games. So he had more sacks in the 2024 postseason than the 2025 regular season. Bottom line is Smith only has 10 \u00bd sacks to show for 45 regular-season games over three years. You expect much more from a 1st-round pick.\u00a0<\/p>\n
6. Jake Elliott:\u00a0Through the 2023 season, Jake Elliott was the 13th-most accurate kicker in NFL history among 178 kickers who attempted 100 field goals with 86.2 percent accuracy. Since then he\u2019s made just 76.2 percent of his kicks, which ranks 29th\u00a0out of 31 kickers who\u2019ve attempted at least 30 field goals. And this past year, he was 20-for-27 for 74.1 percent, 2nd-worst among 30 kickers who attempted at least 17 field goals and worst by an Eagles kicker since Norm Johnson made 72 percent of his field goals in 1999. Elliott is the first Eagles kicker to be worse than 78 percent in consecutive seasons since Chris Boniol in 1997 and 1998. Is it time for a new kicker? That will be something to keep an eye on going into the offseason.<\/p>\n
7. Kelee Ringo:\u00a0After starting training camp as the projected starter at CB2 opposite Quinyon Mitchell, Ringo lost the job to Adoree\u2019 Jackson and didn\u2019t play a single defensive snap the first three games of the season. He played a lot over the next few weeks when Jackson struggled and then suffered a groin injury. But Vic Fangio benched him during a Thursday night national TV game against the Giants, and he didn\u2019t get significant snaps again until his disastrous performance in the meaningless season finale against Josh Johnson and the Commanders. Ringo was a 4th-round pick, but the Eagles traded a 3rd-round pick to draft him, and that’s a lot to invest in a guy who was this bad. He\u2019s got size and speed but has never been able to put them together and play consistently. He\u2019s still only 23 and he is a very good special teamer, but he could be out of chances with the Eagles.<\/p>\n
8. Jalen Hurts:\u00a0The numbers were actually not bad. Hurts\u2019 98.5 passer rating was 8th-highest in the NFL, his 25 touchdown passes were tied for 9th\u00a0with Josh Allen, and he had the 2nd-best interception percentage in the league. But Hurts can be so much better, and we\u2019ve seen it. He was fantastic up through the Vikings game but over the last 10 games he was just OK. Unfair to put him on this list when Kevin Patullo was the root of the offense\u2019s problems? I don\u2019t think so. When you\u2019re an MVP runner-up at 24 and Super Bowl MVP at 26 it\u2019s fair to expect more than what Hurts delivered this past season. First seven games, Hurts had a 108.9 passer rating, 70 percent accuracy, with 11 TDs and one INT, and we were talking about him in the MVP race. Last 10 games, he was 89.3 and 60.5 percent with 15 TDs and five INTs, middle of the pack in every category.\u00a0\u00a0And his reluctance to run and use one of his best weapons was another reason for disappointment. Hurt wasn\u2019t terrible this year, but he can be so much better.<\/p>\n
9. Reed Blankenship:\u00a0In his third year as a starter,\u00a0Blankenship just didn\u2019t make the plays he made his first two years. After piling up seven INTs and 17 pass breakups in 2023 and 2024, he had just one INT and four pass breakups this year. And after compiling Pro Football Focus grades of 73.4 and 69.5 in 2023 and 2024 he was at 42.6 this year, which ranked 74th\u00a0out of 75 safeties who played at least 500 snaps. Blankenship, who started out as an undrafted free agent in 2022, remains unsigned with free agency a month and a half away.<\/p>\n
10. Grant Calcaterra:\u00a0Why the Eagles relied so heavily on Calcaterra as Dallas Goedert\u2019s backup I\u2019ll never understand. Calcaterra made some big plays as a receiver last year but with Goedert healthy this year he caught only nine passes for 76 yards this year and his blocking was ineffective, to put it mildly.\u00a0\u00a0Of 62 tight ends to play at least 375 snaps, his 76 yards were 2nd-fewest in the league this year. Like Goedert and every other tight end on the roster, Calcaterra is headed for free agency. It\u2019s a position the Eagles need to address, but it\u2019s hard to imagine Calcaterra \u2013 a 6th-round pick in 2022 \u2013 fits into that future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"These aren\u2019t the Eagles who had the worst seasons in 2025, they\u2019re the Eagles who had the most…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":726287,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2068],"tags":[25,4904,7,6,242,109,2476],"class_list":{"0":"post-726286","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia-eagles","8":"tag-eagles","9":"tag-eagles-blog","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-nfl","12":"tag-philadelphia","13":"tag-philadelphia-eagles","14":"tag-philadelphiaeagles"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116006879681672295","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726286","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=726286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/726287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=726286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=726286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=726286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}