Before the start of Free Agency, the Eagles retained a player who has been involved in the team's run of success the past four seasons, agreeing to terms with tight end Grant Calcaterra, and then added a trusted veteran in tight end Johnny Mundt. Both players are here on one-year deals.
The 6-foot-4, 240-pound Calcaterra is entering his fifth NFL season after he joined the organization as a sixth-round pick out of SMU in 2022. A member of the 2022 NFC Champion and the Super Bowl LIX Champion squads, Calcaterra has 42 receptions for 494 yards and two touchdowns over 62 regular-season games (22 starts).
"He's been a part of a lot of winning football here and he has been part of the reason why we've done a lot of good things here," Head Coach Nick Sirianni said of Calcaterra last season.
The 2024 Super Bowl season was also Calcaterra's most productive campaign as he posted 24 receptions for 298 yards and a touchdown, while playing 766 offensive snaps (66 percent) and starting 13 of the 17 regular-season games. Calcaterra averaged 5.7 yards after the catch, good for 13th among all NFL tight ends with at least 250 routes run that year. His career-long reception came in Week 3 of his rookie season when he caught a 40-yard reception on an over route against Washington.
Before entering the NFL, Calcaterra started his college career at Oklahoma, where he was teammates with Jalen Hurts, before finishing at SMU. He hauled in 79 receptions for 1,102 yards and 13 touchdowns between his college stops. He briefly pursued a career as a firefighter and has utilized his platform to support the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation during the NFL's My Cause My Cleats initiative.
Mundt enters his 10th NFL season after going undrafted out of Oregon in 2017.
The 6-foot-4 Mundt spent his first five seasons on the Los Angeles Rams before playing the next three on the Minnesota Vikings, overlapping with new Eagles Offensive Coordinator Sean Mannion in 2022 and 2023. While it remains to be seen what Mannion's vision is for the offense, the tight end position has played a vital part in Philadelphia, and the scheme the new coordinator has the most experience with, in both the run game and the pass game over the years.
Mundt appeared in 16 regular-season games for the Jaguars last year and was one of the best blocking tight ends in the league. Amongst the 88 tight ends with at least 100 blocking snaps, Mundt had the seventh-highest pass blocking grade and ninth-highest run blocking grade, according to Pro Football Focus.
A Super Bowl LVI champion with the Rams, Mundt has 74 catches for 658 yards and four touchdowns in his NFL career.
Mundt was released by the Jaguars on March 10, so he didn't have to wait until the start of the League Year to find a new home, and he quickly did here in Philadelphia.
With these moves, the Eagles tight end room consists of Jaheim Bell, E.J. Jenkins, and Cameron Latu in addition to Calcaterra and Mundt.
