{"id":330759,"date":"2026-06-10T15:11:31","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T15:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/330759\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T15:11:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T15:11:31","slug":"eagles-te-dallas-goedert-had-other-opportunities-in-free-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/330759\/","title":{"rendered":"Eagles TE Dallas Goedert ‘Had Other Opportunities’ In Free Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few days after free agency opened in March, tight end Dallas Goedert<\/a> re-signed with the Eagles on a one-year, $7MM guarantee<\/a>. Goedert is now poised to play a ninth straight season in Philadelphia, but the career-long Eagle heard from other teams during his brief trip to the open market.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI was able to test free agency a little bit,\u201d he said<\/a> Tuesday (h\/t: Josh Alper of PFT<\/a>). \u201cHad opportunities to go elsewhere. Nothing was a better opportunity than I thought I could have here. Being able to play in the same place for nine years is special. It would\u2019ve had to be something really drastic to have me try to sign somewhere else.\u201d<\/p>\n

Just as Goedert wanted to stay in Philadelphia, it was in the team\u2019s best interest to re-sign him. Not only did Goedert remain a key part of the Eagles\u2019 offense in 2025, but losing him would have negatively affected their cap situation. The Eagles would have taken on $20.49MM in dead money had they failed to re-sign Goedert. Hoping to prevent that, the Eagles and Goedert agreed to push back the void date<\/a> on his contract on multiple occasions. Doing so bought them enough time to hammer out a new deal.<\/p>\n

An Eagle since they chose him in the second round of the 2018 draft, Goedert now ranks fifth in franchise history in catches (409), tied for ninth in touchdowns (35) and 14th in receiving yards (4,676). He has accumulated those numbers despite missing time in every season since 2019. The 31-year-old played 15 of 17 games in 2025 and piled up 60 catches for 591 yards and a team-leading 11 scores, which set a single-season franchise record for his position.<\/p>\n

The Eagles are likely to lean on Goedert as an important cog in their passing attack again this year, especially after trading<\/a> receiver A.J. Brown<\/a> to the Patriots. They also drafted a potential heir apparent in second-rounder Eli Stowers<\/a>, giving new offensive coordinator Sean Mannion and quarterback Jalen Hurts<\/a> a pair of gifted pass catchers at the position. That wasn\u2019t the case last year, as backup tight ends Grant Calcaterra<\/a> and Kylen Granson<\/a> combined for just 16 receptions. Calcaterra has since joined Goedert in re-signing<\/a> with the Eagles, who also added blocking specialist Johnny Mundt<\/a> in free agency, while Granson left for Tennessee<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A few days after free agency opened in March, tight end Dallas Goedert re-signed with the Eagles on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,7513,104,103,10388],"class_list":["post-330759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-goedert","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-philadelphia-eagles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}