1 Reason for and against Eagles keeping Jason Peters one more year
Here’s the main reason for keeping Peters around.
In addition to those nine Pro Bowl nods, Peters has also been named as a two-time First-team All-Pro (2011, 2013) and a four-time Second-team All-Pro (2007, 2008, 2010, 2014). Is he a step slower? Absolutely he is, but no one gets stronger and faster as they get older.
Peters will turn 38 years old on January 22nd, and though durability is always an issue (he missed an additional three games in 2019 thanks to a knee scope for a torn meniscus), he’s still better than the majority of the offensive linemen in this league.
We spend a ton of time debating how Peters commits a ton of penalties these days and how we’ve never seen him beaten to the edge so much. We keep debating over whether or not the Eagles were, at minimum, a year late in parting ways with Halapoulivaati Vaitai, but here are three other things to consider.
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Once you start trying to name left tackles in the NFL who are better than Peters, things get cloudy quickly. Second, ‘Big V’ does represent value because there are even fewer linemen who can play both tackle positions and the guard position. Third, if Philly does part ways with ‘The Bodyguard’, they may want to spend more time thinking about what their plan is for Vaitai.
In Peters, there will always be more positives than negatives. We’ve been spoiled because he’s been almost perfect, but a Jason Peters that’s a step slower is still several notches above most other prospects. Not only that, he’s been quite the mentor for Andre Dillard.