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Dallas Goedert Remaining a Philadelphia Eagle After All
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Let’s get it back to the Eagles with a resolution to the Dallas Goedert “situation,” if you even want to call it that:
McLane was first to report the news, writing for the Inquirer that the new deal “is for one year at $10 million with the potential to earn up to an additional $1 million in incentives, a source said.“
The genesis of the Goedert speculation was basically fans and media looking at his contract and thinking he’d be a trade candidate and/or cap casualty going into 2025. He was set to earn a little more than $14 million this year, which was the last year of the four-year deal he signed back in 2021.
When the Eagles did not draft a tight end back in April, it seemed like Goedert was on a path to remaining with the Birds, so here we are. You know the deal with Dallas. Great tight end when healthy, but he has missed a full season’s worth of games going back to the first year of the extension.
This past season, he only played 10 regular season games, catching 42 passes for 496 yards and two touchdowns. But he was excellent in the playoffs, reeling in 17 of his 20 targets for 215 yards and a touchdown on what was one of the coolest plays in Eagles history:
Kevin has been writing about Philadelphia sports since 2009. He spent seven years in the CBS 3 sports department and started with the Union during the team's 2010 inaugural season. He went to the academic powerhouses of Boyertown High School and West Virginia University. email - k.kinkead@sportradar.com