Jan. 18, 2026, 5:41 a.m. ET
The Philadelphia Eagles’ 2025 season ended with a playoff loss and questions about player performance.Several key offensive players, including Saquon Barkley and A.J. Brown, saw a decline in their Pro Football Focus grades from 2024 to 2025.Despite a drop in his PFF grade, Saquon Barkley rushed for over 1,000 yards for the second consecutive season.Multiple starting offensive linemen, such as Jordan Mailata and Lane Johnson, also experienced a regression in their individual performance grades.
The new league year is fast approaching, and with weeks until the Super Bowl, the Philadelphia Eagles‘ uncertain off-season has begun after a 23-19 loss to the battered 49ers last weekend that knocked Nick Sirianni’s team out of the playoffs and into an off-season filled with questions, a new offensive coordinator, and potential trades.
Still, one of the best teams in the NFL, the Eagles, was led by star power at multiple positions, but regression is unavoidable within a roster, and Philadelphia saw some concerning declines from important players in 2025.
Here’s a closer look at the players who regressed most for the Eagles in 2025, using Pro Football Focus’s individual overall grades as our guide.
RB Saquon Barkley
2024 PFF grade: 85.0 NFL rank: 10th
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2025 PFF grade: 67.9 NFL rank: 44th
Barkley is the first Eagle to rush for 1,000+ yards (1,140 – 10th in NFL) in back-to-back seasons since LeSean McCoy (2013-14).
WR A.J. Brown
2024 PFF grade: 90.9 NFL rank: 3rd
2025 PFF grade: 80.9 NFL rank: 15th
WR DeVonta Smith
2024 PFF grade: 82.7 NFL rank: 14th
2025 PFF grade: 76.7 NFL rank: 26th
DeVonta Smith (1,008) and A.J. Brown (1,003) are the only Eagles WR duo to produce 1,000+ receiving yards each in the same season. Only five Eagles have three 1,000+ yard receiving seasons – Brown (four), Smith, Harold Carmichael, DeSean Jackson, and Mike Quick.
WR Jahan Dotson
2025 Jahan Dotson, PFF grade: 54.1 NFL rank: 121st
TE Grant Calcaterra
2024 PFF grade: 53.7 NFL rank: 59th
2025 PFF grade: 50.5 NFL rank: 73rd
OL Jordan Mailata
2024 PFF grade: 95.8 NFL rank: 1st
2025 PFF grade: 88.1 NFL rank: 6th
OL Lane Johnson
2024 PFF grade: 85.4 NFL rank: 7th
2025 PFF grade: 77.4 NFL rank: 18th
OL Landon Dickerson
2024 PFF grade: 79.2 NFL rank: 9th
2025 PFF grade: 67.5 NFL rank: 30th
OL Cam Jurgens
2024 PFF grade: 67.1 NFL rank: 13th
2025 PFF grade: 66.0 NFL rank: 19th
DB Reed Blankenship
2025 Reed Blankenship, PFF grade: 42.2 NFL rank: 96th