{"id":8228,"date":"2025-10-19T17:41:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T17:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/8228\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T17:41:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T17:41:20","slug":"is-brandon-graham-coming-out-of-retirement-to-rejoin-eagles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/8228\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Brandon Graham coming out of retirement to rejoin Eagles?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Brandon-Graham-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">PHILADELPHIA &#8211; Veteran defensive end Brandon Graham is in active talks with the Philadelphia Eagles about a potential comeback, nearly nine months after retiring following the team\u2019s Super Bowl victory, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/news\/brandon-graham-talked-with-eagles-coming-out-of-retirement-rejoining-team\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">according to league sources<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTXF\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Graham, 37, has had conversations with the Eagles regarding a return to the field, possibly signing on for a 16th NFL season. He hung up his cleats after the Eagles\u2019 February win, during which he played despite re-tearing a torn triceps injury suffered earlier in the season.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The Eagles\u2019 defense has struggled this year, tied for 25th in the league with just nine total sacks and only one from an active edge rusher. With edge injuries and inexperience plaguing the unit, multiple sources say Graham\u2019s return could provide both immediate impact and valuable locker-room leadership.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Graham, now working as a media analyst and co-hosting the &#8220;Unblocked&#8221; podcast, acknowledged on his show that the Seahawks\u2019 pass-rusher retirement and current team needs made the idea of returning &#8220;pretty cool.&#8221; He didn\u2019t commit to a decision yet but did express openness.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Former Eagles center Jason Kelce commented recently that if Graham still has the desire, the team &#8220;should damn sure give him that opportunity,&#8221; citing both the team\u2019s need and Graham\u2019s leadership value.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">No contract details have been released, and an official re-signature has not yet been announced. The Eagles face the Minnesota Vikings this Sunday, with the potential return of Graham looming as another storyline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Multiple sources were used for this report including NFL and ESPN.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/us\/pa\/philadelphia\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/sports\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sports<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article PHILADELPHIA &#8211; Veteran defensive end Brandon Graham is in active talks with the Philadelphia Eagles about a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[539,69,71,70,726,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-8228","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-pa","9":"tag-philadelphia","10":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","11":"tag-philadelphia-news","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}