There is always more than meets the immediate eye when it comes to the Philadelphia Eagles, and the 2025 NFL Draft is a classic case in point.
The Eagles wheeled and dealed throughout the weekend and landed 10 rookie picks and added to their future with a 2026 fifth-round pick from Atlanta, giving them a total of nine selections next spring. Philadelphia is also expected to gain some compensatory picks for losing 2025 unrestricted free agents like defensive tackle Milton Williams, outside linebacker Josh Sweat, and perhaps others, but that is not yet official.
So, we're looking at nine draft picks, including eight in the first five rounds.
"We are always trying to think of the present and the future simultaneously and optimize across what we're trying to build this year and then planning for a team that is sustainably good," Assistant General Manager Alec Halaby said. "This is something that we have tried to do here for years and something that we want to continue to do. I think we have a really good core to the roster. We have a lot of really good young players, but if you're not adding to that group every year, it can be gone like that (snaps fingers).
"We're very, very cognizant of that, of adding good, young players every year and we want to keep the roster dynamic."
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The Assistant GM provides detailed insight into everything the Eagles accomplished on a critical three-day weekend.
Future draft capital is always important and teams that win the Super Bowl generally aren't in position to have their shelves stocked immediately after. The Eagles, however, are in a terrific situation, having made 10 picks through the 2025 NFL Draft weekend and now looking at a positive situation in 2026.
"I think when you can add good players during the weekend, when you can feel good about your core, and you can look ahead and say, 'We have a lot of opportunities to add players and supplement what we have and add new core players, I think that's how you are sustainably good and have years when you can be great."
The Eagles were great in 2024, winning their second World Championship in seven seasons. What does the future hold? That has to be played out during the season, but the Eagles have the firepower to address the roster in a number of ways – continuing to extend contracts of their existing key players, working the various routes to add to the team, and, of course, looking at a 2026 NFL Draft picture that is very, very bright.
