new deal for Titans defensive tackle Jeffery Simmons<\/a> pushed the top of the market at the position from $31.75 million per year to $35.2 million.<\/p>\nThat becomes directly relevant to Carter\u2019s unsettled contract situation in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n
Carter has become one of the most dominant defensive players in the NFL, after only three seasons. By making it to multiple Pro Bowls, his fifth-year option for 2027 has spiked to $27.127 million. His franchise tag, as of 2028, will be at least $32.554 million.<\/p>\n
In March, a report surfaced that the Eagles had gotten calls about a trade for Carter. Which seemed to come from a leak calculated to invite more calls \u2014 and possibly encouraging backchannel conversations that would allow Carter to conclude that whatever the Eagles may have been offering is in line with what he could get elsewhere.<\/p>\n
Since then, Carter was an apparent hold-in during mandatory minicamp. Although coach Nick Sirianni declined to say why Carter wasn\u2019t participating in team drills, Sirianni didn\u2019t need to.<\/p>\n
Carter wisely isn\u2019t doing anything that may put himself at risk until he gets paid. Especially since he\u2019s due to be paid only $3.723 million in 2026.<\/p>\n
The Eagles usually do a good job of getting guys signed early, because delay always pushes the bar higher. In Carter\u2019s case, the Simmons contract does precisely that.<\/p>\n
Now, the target for the new-money APY on a new deal won\u2019t be a click above $31.75 million. Carter will reasonably believe that he should come in ahead of $35.2 million.<\/p>\n
So what would it take to get to $35.3 million? With $30.85 million due over the next two years, a five-year, $136.75 million deal would get there.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s the minimum, at this point. And Carter likely won\u2019t be doing anything during training camp until he gets there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jalen Carter should be smiling. Every major NFL contract has ripple effects with other players. Friday\u2019s new deal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":715747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-715746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715746","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=715746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/715747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}