The Philadelphia Eagles and defensive tackle Jordan Davis have agreed to a three-year contract extension, league sources confirmed to The Athletic.<\/p>\n
The new deal is worth up to $78 million, with $65 million guaranteed, and keeps Davis under contract with the Eagles through 2029, the sources confirmed.<\/p>\n
The Eagles selected Davis with the 13th pick in the 2022 NFL Draft. The 26-year-old emerged as one of the NFL\u2019s top defensive tackles in 2025, anchoring the middle of the Eagles\u2019 defensive line.<\/p>\n
He showed flashes throughout his first three seasons but also had bouts of inconsistency. Davis committed to improving his conditioning and remained in shape throughout the season, fulfilling the promise expected of him when the Eagles traded up in the first round to land the former Georgia standout.<\/p>\n
Davis had a career-high 4.5 sacks to go along with six passes defended while playing a career-high 686 snaps in all 17 games. He ranked second in the NFL among defensive linemen with 63 tackles on designed run plays, according to TruMedia.\u00a0But his production was not always evident in counting stats. Davis\u2019 presence was most evident watching him play.<\/p>\n
This contract is evidence that the Eagles believe Davis is just beginning to scratch the surface of his prodigious talent. They\u2019re paying him to be an elite defensive force \u2014 not just a space-eating nose tackle. He was known for his size and athleticism coming out of Georgia, when the 6-foot-6, 341-pound lineman ran a 4.78-second 40-yard dash and had a 32-inch vertical jump at the NFL combine. The size and athleticism now match the production. Davis won both defensive player of the week and special teams player of the week last season.<\/p>\n
The three new years are added to the final year of Davis\u2019 current contract that was set to expire after 2026.\u00a0Before this deal, Davis was set to count $12.94 million against the salary cap while playing on his fifth-year option. With the extension, the Eagles can now spread the salary cap hit over a longer period and reduce Davis\u2019 charge against the cap.<\/p>\n
An extension for Davis was one way the Eagles could open cap space, which the team will need to either re-sign pending free agents, add players on the open market, or potentially trade A.J. Brown before June 1. (The cap machinations would be different if a Brown trade occurs after June 1.)<\/p>\n
Davis was one of three Eagles defensive tackles eligible for contract extensions this offseason, along with Jalen Carter and Moro Ojomo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Philadelphia Eagles and defensive tackle Jordan Davis have agreed to a three-year contract extension, league sources confirmed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":525416,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,1260,85],"class_list":["post-525415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-philadelphia-eagles","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/525416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}