The Eagles are looking to gear up for a big season after a disappointing end to the 2025-2026 season. The Philadelphia Eagles ended their season with a 23-19 loss to the San Francisco 49ers in the Divisional round. This game summed up their offensive struggles, 24th-ranked, where the once well-oiled offensive machine could not get over schematic and effort issues.
The Eagles had a rough free agency. They lost three important pieces of their defense: starting linebacker Jaelan Phillips, starting Safety Reed Blankenship and rotational Linebacker Nakobe Dean.
Phillips signed with the Carolina Panthers on a four-year, $120 million contract, while Blankenship and Dean inked three-year deals each with the Houston Texans and Las Vegas Raiders. Offensively, the Eagles did not re-sign wide receiver (WR) Jahan Dotson, who would sign with the Atlanta Falcons.
However, the Eagles were still able to retain several players, helping close the gap lost from departing Eagles. The Eagles re-signed defensive tackle (DT) Jordan Davis to the largest nose tackle contract in history. They also exercised the built in fifth-year options from the rookie contracts of Jalen Carter and Nolan Smith.
Additionally, Roseman signed free agents cornerback (CB) Tariq Woolen, formerly a Seattle Seahawk, and WR Hollywood Brown, formerly a Kansas City Chief.
In the 2026 draft, the Eagles selected WR Makai Lemon with the 20th overall pick; he had played for the University of Southern California. The Eagles also acquired Pro Bowl LB Jonathan Greenard in a trade with the Minnesota Vikings for a 2026 third-round pick and a 2027 third-round pick.
In the seventh round of the draft, the Eagles selected Defensive Tackle Uar Bernard with the 251st pick overall. Bernard, born and raised in Nigeria, was part of the international player pathway program, and his freak athleticism is being compared to that of Myles Garrett, widely considered one of the best Defensive ends in the league.
Through these offseason additions, the Eagles expectations remain high for students at Germantown Academy.
“The regular season schedule looked really easy in my opinion”, Brightcliffe said. “ And their division isn’t very good, so I think they’ll make it into the playoffs, but I don’t know if they will make it into the playoffs deep, because last year there wasn’t a lot of good chemistry with play calling. I know we have some developing rookies. I also know we lost Reed Blankenship, and you gotta expect the young guys like Cooper Dejean and Quinyon Mitchell to step up”.
While the Eagles notched the fourth most QB pressures in the NFL, the defensive line had relatively underwhelming production, racking up just 43 sacks, with no individual player passing seven on the season. With the addition of Greenard, as well as a healthy Jalen Carter and Jordan Davis, the Eagles should come back with a premier defensive line unit.
The students’ prediction of what a “successful season” means for the Eagles appeared to coincide with “a Super Bowl. That’s the only way I see us having a successful season,” Brightcliffe said.
The experts project Philadelphia to be top contenders in the National Football Conference (NFC) with their current win total set at 10.5 wins, while also favored to win the NFC East for the third straight year.
As another football season dawns on Philadelphia, faculty across the academy find themselves in optimism for the upcoming Eagles season.
“I’m predicting a record of 12-5. We got Jalen Hurts ready to go, locked in on the season. We’re going to be playoff contenders,” O’Keefe said. We gotta run the ball more, use Saquon, and get that ball moving on the ground first. That’s how we’re gonna pounce into the playoffs and get that Super Bowl win.”
The Eagles exciting season has commenced voluntary OTA’s, with training camp starting mid-summer, and optimism remains high in the GA community for future success.