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Eagles resolve Josh Sweat impasse with contract restructure originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia
Josh Sweat has agreed to a restructured contract that keeps him in an Eagles uniform this year.
The restructure doesn’t add any years to Sweat’s contract but is worth $10 million guaranteed in 2024 with incentives that could bring the total value to $13 million. The news was first reported by ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler and confirmed by NBC Sports Philadelphia.
Sweat, the Eagles’ 4th-round pick in 2018, was heading into the final year of his contract and had a $9.1 million cap hit.
What this means for Haason Reddick isn’t immediately clear. Reddick is also going into a contract year and has a massive $21.8 million cap hit in 2024. The Eagles also just gave another edge rusher, Bryce Huff, a three-year, $51 million contract.
That’s a lot of money for pass rushers, but if anybody can make that work it’s Roseman. The Eagles dropped from 70 sacks in 2022 to 43 last year and that was a big reason the Eagles had the 2nd-worst pass defense in the NFL this past season.
There was all kinds of speculation that the Eagles were trying to trade Sweat – as well as Reddick – and might even release him. Instead, he’ll be back for a seventh season with the Eagles.
Sweat showed steady progression as a pass rusher the first few years of his career. He barely played on defense as a rookie – 68 snaps all year – then had 4.0 sacks off the bench in 2019, 6.0 sacks primarily off the bench in 2020 and 7 ½ and a Pro Bowl in 2021 in his first year as a full-time starter and a career-high 11 in 2022.
But last year was a mystifying one. Like so many other Eagles on both sides of the ball, he got off to a hot start before slumping badly the second half of the season.
Through the first Dallas game, Sweat had 6 ½ sacks in nine weeks and ranked fifth in the NFC. He then went eight straight games without a sack, becoming the first Eagles starting edge rusher on record to go eight…
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Author : NBC Sports Philadelphia
Publish date : 2024-03-15 18:33:36
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