The Eagles have restructured three-time Pro Bowl guard Landon Dickerson’s contract, slightly reducing his salary and wiping out the 2028 season entirely, according to ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler.
Dickerson signed a four-year, $84 million extension two years ago that made him the NFL’s highest-paid guard. That deal ran through 2028. According to Fowler, the restructure is worth “around” $36 million over two years, including $15.7 million this year. That is about $3 million less than Dickerson was due over the next two years, although Fowler reported that he can make up the difference by meeting incentives in 2027.
With the restrucure, Dickerson is now only signed through 2027, and would become a free agent in two years. With a new average annual salary of $18 milllion per year, Dickerson drops from 3rd-highest to 9th-highest-paid guard in the league.
The restructure is likely a product of Dickerson’s concerning injury history, which dates back to his college days at Florida State and Alabama.
Dickerson has only missed six games in his NFL career, but he’s been plagued by an endless series of in-season injuries and offseason surgeries that reportedly had him mulling retirement this offseason and certainly affected his play this past season, when he missed the Pro Bowl for the first time since his rookie year in 2021.
Presumably, the motivation for the restructure was to give Dickerson the opportunity for free agency a year early while protecting the Eagles from having to pay him in 2028 if he’s no longer able to play at a high level.
Dickerson made Pro Bowls after the 2022, 2023 an 2024 seasons, becoming the first offensive lineman in franchise history to make three Pro Bowls in his first four seasons and the first Eagle at any position to do that since Donovan McNabb.
Dickerson has had 13 surgeries going back to college. Among his serious injuries are a torn right ACL while playing for Florida State in 2016, a season-ending sprained ankle the next year, a torn left ACL with Alabama in 2020 and most recently a right knee scope before the 2025 season and a left knee injury in the 2025 NFC Championship Game that required offseason surgery.