Eagles lose chief scouting department member to the Steelers

Here’s one that you may have missed if you decided to go the route of clocking out a little early on Tuesday and spending your time doing something other than focusing on what the Philadelphia Eagles are doing. It appears that they’ve lost another member of the front office gone. This is one of those announcements that shouldn’t surprise anyone though.

According to a report by Ian Rapoport, per league sources, Pittsburgh Steelers vice president Omar Khan is expected to be named the team’s general manager. Moments later, Gerry Dulac reported that Andy Weidl, Philly’s director of player personnel, will join him.

Weidl has been hired to serve in the role of assistant general manager. He previously served as Philadelphia’s vice president of player personnel since 2018.

Add Andy Weidl’s name to an ever-growing list of Eagles departures.

Weidl joined Philadelphia as the scouting department’s assistant director of player personnel prior to the 2016-2017 NFL season. He had a chief role in helping the Birds craft not only a roster that would hoist the Vince Lombardi Trophy in February of 2018 to conclude the 2017-2018 NFL season but he also aided vice president/general manager Howie Roseman in shaping three more rosters since then that have earned playoff berths.

Again, we’ve known about the possibility of this happening, so the news shouldn’t be shocking (with the exception of the fact that we thought Weidl might take the G.M.’s chair). Add Weidl’s names to a list of front office departures including but not limited to the former senior football advisor Tom Donahoe, former vice president of football operations Catherine Raîche, and their former director of player personnel Brandon Brown.

Hey, Jeffrey Lurie and Howie told us that they had several ‘general managers in waiting’ on staff. It appears that they were absolutely right on that one.