Get ready for a busy and exciting week in the NFL. Free agency officially begins today when the NFL’s negotiating window opens at noon. That will be the first chance other teams will get to enter legal negotiations with pending free agents. Before noon, teams have exclusive negotiating right s with their own pending free agents. It’s important to remember that while you’ll start hearing about deals over the next couple of days, nothing can become official until 4 p.m. on Wednesday. That’s the official start of the new league year. Every year, there are some deals around the NFL that fall through. Some early news The Eagles on Saturday afternoon reached terms on a three-year, $78 million contract extension with defensive tackle Jordan Davis. Davis was set to play the 2026 season on the fifth-year option of his rookie deal. This extension will keep him under contract through the 2029 season and will lower his salary cap hit for 2026. We’ll see if Jalen Carter is next. The Eagles drafted Carter in the first round one year after Davis, so they don’t need to sign him to an extension this offseason but he’s eligible for the first time in his career after playing out the first three seasons of his rookie deal. The Eagles typically like to get these mega extensions done early.  While ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler reported the Eagles have received trade calls on Carter, there hasn’t been an indication that they’re actually looking to move him. Carter was the ninth overall pick in 2023 and has been a Pro Bowler each of the last two seasons. Eagles pending free agents The Eagles have a long list of free agents as they enter this week: Offense: TE Dallas Goedert, WR Jahan Dotson, OT Fred Johnson, OL Brett Toth, TE Grant Calcaterra, TE Kylen Granson, OL Matt Pryor, QB Sam Howell, RB A.J. Dillon, FB Ben VanSumeren (RFA) Defense: LB Nakobe Dean, OLB Jaelan Phillips, S Reed Blankenship, S Marcus Epps, CB Adoree’ Jackson, DE Brandon Graham, OLB Joshua Uche, OLB Azeez Ojulari, OLB Ogbo Okoronkwo, P Braden Mann It seems that the Eagles’ top priority going into free agency will be trying to retain Phillips, whom they acquired in a trade during the 2025 season. ESPN reported: “People inside the league believe Philly is attempting to re-sign Phillips to a deal that would pay him well above $20 million per year. But Phillips will have a strong market if he chooses to enter free agency.” As of Sunday evening, NFL Network reported there’s some optimism the Eagles will be able to keep Phillips. If the Eagles can’t re-sign Phillips, they will look for other ways to bolster their edge rusher depth. And here’s at where the Eagles’ pending free agents rank on national lists: ESPN 5. Jaelan Phillips32. Reed Blankenship48. Nakobe Dean NFL.com 3. Jaelan Phillips43. Nakobe Dean81. Dallas Goedert98. Reed Blankenship CBS Sports 4. Jaelan Phillips33. Nakobe Dean The Ringer 3. Jaelan Phillips31. Nakobe Dean ProFootballFocus 11. Nakobe Dean14. Jaelan Phillips45. Dallas Goedert69. Reed Blankenship85. Brandon Graham179. Marcus Epps184. Joshua Uche232. Azeez Ojulari234. Matt Pryor Playing the comp pick game Just like last offseason, the Eagles are expected to lose more big-time free agents than they add so they will be playing the compensatory pick game once again. They won’t be in a hurry to sign free agents who might cancel out a compensatory pick that they could have coming for the 2027 draft. The comp picks for 2026 haven’t yet been announced but the Eagles are projected to get three picks from their free agent losses. Those draft picks are valuable, especially since they have been legal to trade.  Keep in mind that any player released from his contract does not negatively affect the compensatory pick formula. So the Eagles will likely keep an eye on those players if they make sense. Let’s make a deal? The start of free agency can sometimes spur action on trades too. The big question in Philadelphia is about the future of A.J. Brown. While the Eagles have said they’ll listen to offers for just about anyone, they’re making it very clear that they don’t need to trade Brown and that it’ll take a lot to pry him away. That’s kind of where that stands entering this week, so we’ll see if teams begin to up their offers. It’s a little tricky to operate this offseason without knowing the future of Brown and it’s possible this situation could linger. As of Sunday night, NFL Network’s Mike Garafolo explained that those trade talks have seemingly stalled a bit. With Howie Roseman at the helm, you can never rule out a trade, especially if the markets in free agency begin to explode. Roseman has plenty of draft picks to use as chips in potential trades. Even if he doesn’t go for a blockbuster move, Roseman usually makes some sort of trade around the start of the new league year. Just last year, Roseman traded away Kenny Pickett and C.J. Gardner-Johnson. When it comes to trades, Roseman is one of the more active GMs in football. Offseason of change After a relatively disappointing 2025 season, the Eagles have undergone some major changes to their coaching staff this offseason. They moved on from offensive coordinator Kevin Patullo and replaced him with former Packers QBs coach Sean Mannion. The 33-year-old Mannion has just two years of coaching experience but played for nearly a decade in the NFL and is expected to install a brand new scheme in Philly. He also brought a couple of coaches with him and longtime offensive line coach Jeff Stoutland stepped down. While the Eagles hired Mannion as their OC, they also hired two other finalists — Josh Grizzard and Jerrod Johnson — for other roles on the staff. On defense, Vic Fangio flirted with the idea of retirement but eventually decided to return for his third season as the Eagles’ defensive coordinator. That was perhaps the best news of the offseason. But the Eagles did lose talented defensive backs coach and passing game coordinator Christian Parker to a divisional rival when the Cowboys hired him to be their new defensive coordinator. Some of these changes could affect the way the Eagles acquire talent in free agency and in the draft. This story uses functionality that may not work in our app. Click here to open the story in your web browser. ...read more read less