Philadelphia Eagles worst free-agent signings under Howie Roseman

The Eagles take a swing and miss on a former rival’s addition.

During his ten-year career with Washington, Ryan Kerrigan spent quite a few Sundays annoying the you know what out of the Philadelphia Eagles and their fans. In 19 career appearances with Philly’s rivals from our nation’s capital, Kerrigan scored a defensive touchdown and placed 63 total tackles, including 15 for a loss of yardage, 24 quarterback hits, 13.5 sacks, an interception, two pass breakups, and six forced fumbles on his NFL resume.

Perhaps we should have known something was wrong when Washington made no attempt to re-sign him during 2021’s offseason. Perhaps we should have known something was wrong when Washington seemed unbothered by when Howie Roseman saw an opportunity to finally add a long-time nemesis to his wheelhouse. Instead, we raved, some of us anyway, about how smart Howie was for adding a low-risk and potentially high-reward signing.

Unfortunately, it didn’t take long to learn that the rewards would be just as low, if not lower, than the risk.

Kerrigan signed a one-year deal with the Birds on May 17th of 2021. Not even a year later, he’ll leave having only contributed three tackles to Philly’s cause in 16 regular-season games with two starts and three tackles and 1.5 sacks in Philadelphia’s lone playoff game of the 2021-2022 NFL campaign’s postseason.

Don’t be too pumped about that stat line in the playoff game. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers were dealing with injuries and had a reserve tackle in front of him.