How Eagles G.M. Howie Roseman has made training camp holdouts extinct originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia
Look around the NFL and you see players unhappy with their contracts, constantly at odds with the front office and even holding out of training camp in some high-profile cases.
There’s one place you never see that.
Here.
Who was the last Eagle under contract who held out of training camp?
Good luck trying to figure that one out.
You have to go back 13 years – to Lehigh and the summer of 2011, when DeSean Jackson skipped the first 11 days of training camp and only reported after that – on Aug. 9 – because additional missed days could have cost him a year of pension credit and pushed back free agency another year.
Evan Mathis skipped OTAs in 2015 and was released soon after. But that was during Chip Kelly’s brief G.M. tenure and doesn’t count against Howie Roseman’s track record.
And a few rookies have missed a day or two but with draft pick contracts now slotted, that’s pretty much disappeared as well.
There have been close calls for Roseman. Sam Bradford skipped spring practices in 2017 after the Eagles drafted Carson Wentz. It looked like Zach Ertz would sit out of camp in 2021, when he was disappointed in contract talks and wanted a trade (that he eventually got), but he showed up for the start of camp, bleached blonde hair and all.
But veteran holdouts? On Howie Roseman’s watch?
It just doesn’t happen.
The combination of Roseman staying out in front of contracts and signing guys early and owner Jeff Lurie willing to spend – and in some cases over-spend – for players the Eagles value has kept the Eagles out of situations that the Cowboys are going through with CeeDee Lamb, the Jets with former Eagle Haason Reddick and the 49ers with Trent Williams.
“Yeah, I think it starts with ownership,” Roseman said. “Starts with Jeffrey’s ability to let us sign guys early and to try and get out ahead of things, which we couldn’t do without his…
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Publish date : 2024-07-26 23:08:14
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