The Philadelphia Eagles officially announced three moves on Tuesday afternoon. Here\u2019s an overview:<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s sort through this news on a player-by-player basis.<\/p>\n
Smith was unexpectedly placed on injured reserve due to a strained triceps injury back on September 24. At the time, reporting indicated that the Eagles had hope Smith could return for Philly\u2019s Week 10 game against the Green Bay Packers. It appears that the 2023 first-round pick might indeed be able to play this coming Monday night. We\u2019ll see how he fares in practice leading up to this week\u2019s game; the Eagles will issue their first official injury report on Thursday, November 6.<\/p>\n
Smith\u2019s return would be a nice boost for an Eagles pass rush that could use some more juice. Smith is also a strong run defender given his fearless tenacity when it comes to setting the edge.<\/p>\n
If Smith is able to play, the Eagles\u2019 edge rusher rotation looks like this:<\/p>\n
Assuming Phillips can make a smooth transition to the Eagles after being acquired in a trade with the Miami Dolphins, this unit has potential to be more effective than it was in the first half of the 2025 season.<\/p>\n
Note that the Eagles have until 4:00 PM Eastern on Monday, November 10 to officially activate Smith to their roster to have him available for the Packers game.<\/p>\n
Johnson is a solid fifth or sixth edge rusher and quality special teams contributor. But the Eagles clearly wanted to upgrade on him. With the Eagles releasing Marshall, perhaps they\u2019ll add Johnson to the practice squad. Note that Johnson must pass through waivers now that the NFL trade deadline has passed and all players are subject to the waiver process (including vested veterans).<\/p>\n
With the Eagles re-signing Danny Gray to the practice squad on Monday, Marshall became expendable at wide receiver.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Philadelphia Eagles officially announced three moves on Tuesday afternoon. Here\u2019s an overview: Let\u2019s sort through this news…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272971,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,46147,99],"class_list":["post-272970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-philadelphia-eagles-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}