Mandatory minicamp wrapped last Wednesday. The team is now off until training camp opens in late July. Eighty-nine days from today, the Eagles take the field at Lincoln Financial Field for Week 1 against the Washington Commanders. That game (Sunday, September 13, 4:25 PM, FOX) is the first real verdict on a roster that has changed at almost every layer this offseason.
Here is what the Eagles actually look like heading into camp, by area.
The Coaching Staff: Three New Voices, One Continuation
The headline story of the spring is that Jalen Hurts is on his third primary offensive system in four years. Kellen Moore left for the Saints head job after Super Bowl LIX. Kevin Patullo replaced him for 2025. Patullo was fired in January after the wild-card loss. Sean Mannion is the install for 2026.
OC Sean Mannion brings a Shanahan-tree, wide-zone-blocking, motion-heavy scheme that lives on play-action and middle-of-the-field route concepts. Hurts publicly bought in at minicamp: "Fluency is important. So being able to build with one language and grow within that, that opportunity excites me." That is a quarterback who is tired of starting over every spring.
OL coach Chris Kuper replaced Jeff Stoutland, the 12-year institution who shaped Lane Johnson, Jordan Mailata, Cam Jurgens, and Landon Dickerson into All-Pros. Kuper coached Minnesota's offensive line for four years, played 91 NFL games at right guard for Denver, and has been explicit about how he is approaching the room: "Replacing him, I've just got to be myself." Lane Johnson, who has the most institutional Stoutland equity in the building, said publicly that 2025's offense was "stagnant" and that he likes Kuper a lot. The pieces line up.
DC Vic Fangio is the continuation. He just won the 2026 PFWA Dr. Z Award for lifetime achievement as an assistant coach. He has publicly committed to the Eagles for at least two more years. The Fangio defense was the No. 1 unit in football in 2024 and a top-five group in 2025. Continuity at coordinator on the defensive side is the biggest single advantage the Eagles have over the rest of the NFC.
The Offense: Rebuilt at WR, Stable Everywhere Else
The skill positions look very different than they did at the end of 2025.
Quarterback: Hurts. The Super Bowl LIX MVP. Andy Dalton has taken the QB2 reps through OTAs over Tanner McKee, a development that has prompted national chatter about a McKee trade. The depth is real and unbothered by the trade noise.
Running back: Saquon Barkley returns. Will Shipley and Tank Bigsby behind him. Veteran Elijah Mitchell signed on a depth deal in early June. The room is settled.
Wide receiver: This is the unit that got rebuilt. A.J. Brown was traded to the Patriots. DeVonta Smith is now the official WR1 after five years as the elite WR2. Rookie Makai Lemon (first round, No. 20 overall) is the projected WR2, though a hamstring injury kept him off the field for the back half of OTAs and the start of minicamp. Dontayvion Wicks, acquired in April from the Packers, has earned a Keenan Allen comparison from Sirianni and Quinyon Mitchell's "underrated" label, and is the WR3 with starter upside if Lemon misses time. Hollywood Brown is back. Samori Toure and Brandon Hayes are in the depth chart competition.
Tight end: Dallas Goedert chose to come back for Year 9 after testing free agency and called himself "home." Eli Stowers (second round, No. 54) is the developmental piece behind him. New TE coach Ryan replaced Jason Michael.
Offensive line: Lane Johnson, Jordan Mailata, Landon Dickerson, Cam Jurgens are intact. Third-round rookie Markel Bell has been running first-team right tackle snaps with Johnson absent from voluntary OTAs and has earned public Sirianni praise. The unit is the most stable on the roster.
The Defense: Depth Above Star Power
Vic Fangio's group has changed at the edges of the roster but is anchored by the same core that won Super Bowl LIX.
Defensive line: Jalen Carter is the centerpiece (subject of his own ongoing contract situation, which will dominate camp coverage if it is not resolved before late July). Jordan Davis returns. A.J. Epenesa signed last Wednesday to give the EDGE rotation a real veteran fourth piece behind Jonathan Greenard (free-agent acquisition), Nolan Smith, and Jalyx Hunt. The depth is meaningfully better than it was in 2025.
Linebacker: Zack Baun, Jihaad Campbell, Nakobe Dean. Settled.
Secondary: Quinyon Mitchell, Cooper DeJean, Riq Woolen (free agent from Seattle, the spring's defensive standout), and Reed Blankenship was replaced after he signed with Houston in March. Marcus Epps and Michael Carter II are competing at the open safety spot. Woolen himself called the unit "one of the best secondary groups in the league" at minicamp. The talent profile backs that up.
What Camp Actually Told Us
Three through-lines emerged across the spring:
The veterans are publicly bought in. Lane Johnson said he "always envied" this offense from afar. Goedert chose to come back to be a one-team Eagle. Mailata called Hurts a "man with a fire lit again." These are the players who have the most equity in how 2025 ended, and they are the loudest voices in the building right now.
The new pieces are matching that energy. Woolen on the secondary being one of the best in the league. Greenard endorsing Uar Bernard as a project. Epenesa's signing landing in the middle of minicamp itself. The locker room is absorbing the new additions without friction.
Hurts is operating with closure on the A.J. Brown chapter. His first public comments since the trade were measured, direct, and final: "I'm not in the place to challenge anyone's perspective on anything... That's why I've always been focused on the collective." That is a quarterback who has moved on, and a locker room that has been told to move on with him.
The Storylines That Will Define Training Camp
- Jalen Carter's contract. The most important variable in the entire offseason. If a deal is done before late July, the defense walks into camp with full continuity. If not, the situation becomes the dominant headline of camp.
- Makai Lemon's hamstring. The first-round WR2 needs to be at full health by early camp or the WR room runs through Wicks and Hollywood Brown instead of Smith-Lemon. Different ceiling for the offense in each scenario.
- Mannion's install velocity. The defense was ahead of the offense in OTAs. That is normal in June. What is not normal is for an offense to play meaningful preseason football with this much install left. The Week 1 plan is going to be a tighter slice of the menu than the eventual version.
- The Epenesa medical situation. The Browns pulled his contract in March after a failed physical. If the Eagles get the version of Epenesa that produced back-to-back 6.5-sack seasons in Buffalo, the EDGE rotation is set. If not, the depth chart is thinner than it looks.
- Tanner McKee trade chatter. Bleacher Report and others have floated McKee as a tradeable QB2. The Eagles have not signaled interest, but if a desperate market materializes around a Week 2 injury elsewhere, a deal is possible.
The Verdict 89 Days Out
The Eagles roster is older, more experienced, and deeper at every position group than the team that wild-carded out of the 2025 playoffs. The coaching staff has the most clarity on offensive philosophy (one OC, one philosophy, with the quarterback bought in) and the most continuity on defense (Fangio plus the Super Bowl core, plus real new pieces) that the front office could realistically engineer.
The questions are the right kind: rebuild a WR room, get the new OC's terminology installed, settle one big contract, monitor a couple of medicals. None of those are roster-construction problems. They are execution problems. That is a meaningfully better starting point than this team has had in May/June of any season since 2022.
Week 1 is Washington at home. Eight games against 2025 playoff teams await on the schedule. Thanksgiving is at Dallas. Christmas Eve hosts the Texans. That schedule is the schedule a team gets when the league thinks it is built to win.
The Eagles get 89 days to convert spring potential into Week 1 ready. The work continues, quietly, until late July.
