In order to keep the veteran tight end in Philadelphia, the Eagles and Dallas Goedert have reached an agreement on a revised contract and pay reduction.
The agreement, which was first reported by Jeff McLane of the Inquirer and verified by a league source, is significant for both Goedert, who won’t have to begin searching for a new team two months after free agency began, and the Eagles, who retain one of Jalen Hurts’ top targets and one of the greatest playoff tight ends in NFL history.
According to ESPN’s Field Yates, Goedert will receive $10 million from the deal, plus incentives worth an additional $1 million. At first, he was owed $14 million in cash.
Goedert, who has played for the Eagles for all seven of his years, had a cap cost of roughly $11.8 million in 2025. There is no information on the precise cap value of the new contract.
It would have been the tenth-highest cap hit for any tight end in the NFL.
Although the Eagles did not draft a tight end and would not have had a TE1 on the roster if they had traded or dismissed Goedert, they still had Grant Calcaterra and added two veteran tight ends in the offseason, Harrison Bryant and Kylen Granson.
In 93 regular-season games, Goedert, a second-round selection in 2018, has 349 receptions for 4,085 yards and 24 touchdowns. Since 2019, he has ranked ninth among NFL tight ends in terms of yards per game with 49.
However, he has been one of the league’s finest in the postseason. He has caught 52 passes for 562 yards and four touchdowns in 12 career playoff games, which is the eighth-most by a tight end. In the 2024 Super Bowl run, he set team records with 17 receptions for 215 yards and a touchdown, despite missing seven games during the regular season. The 215 yards are the second-highest total an Eagle has ever had in a single playoffs. In 2017, Alshon Jeffrey had 219.
This became a complex and drawn-out problem since it is difficult to determine Goedert’s worth, and for a long, based on Howie Roseman and Nick Sirianni’s discussion of Goedert, it did not appear like a favorable resolution would materialize.
When healthy, Goedert remains one of the game’s most effective tight ends. This past season, Goedert recorded 50 yards per game, which was third-highest in his career and sixth-highest in the league. However, his age and injuries reduce his worth. Since 2020, he has only averaged 12½ games per season, and at 30, he is too old to be a part of Roseman’s youth program.
Goedert is currently the team’s second-oldest anticipated starter, only surpassed by 35-year-old Lane Johnson. Tight end Brent Celek was the last time an offensive skill player in his 30s started 12 or more games for the Eagles in 2015.
Goedert wanted to be here, and Roseman defied some pretty strong trends, but in the end, the team felt he was worth it, and when the player and the team want something, it typically gets done.
