The Philadelphia Eagles have been busy in the last week, and there’s still time before Tuesday’s NFL trade deadline for more to happen.
The business they did Monday may have been their best yet.
ESPN has given each Eagles move a grade, and the trade for Jaelan Phillips from the Miami Dolphins on Monday morning has gotten the best mark: an A-minus.
“Framed in those terms — a 2026 third-round pick and around $6.6 million for half a season of Phillips and a likely 2027 fourth-round pick — this seems well worth it,” ESPN’s Seth Walder writes. “The Eagles are true Super Bowl contenders, so the leverage on patching up any weakness is high. Anything that moves the needle on probability of a Lombardi Trophy is valuable.”
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Phillips is on an expiring contract, which made him expendable for Miami.
So far this season, Phillips has 3.0 sacks in nine games with 25 tackles.
In his career, Phillips has 26.0 sacks in 55 games.
He’s a 26-year old edge rusher who began his college career at UCLA and finished it at Miami. The Dolphins then drafted the Hurricanes star with the No. 18 overall pick in the 2021 NFL Draft.
The Eagles have already made trades for a pair of cornerbacks, too, in Michael Carter II and Jaire Alexander.
Walder gave the Alexander grade a B- for the Eagles and the Carter trade a B.
And there’s still time for the Eagles to make more trades and get more grades.
