The 2025 Philadelphia Eagles offseason was one of the quietest the team has ever had under general manager Howie Roseman, as every deal made in free agency was a one-year deal.
Philly signed 12 players in free agency, all on one-year contracts, and they need to prove to the Eagles that they deserve a longer deal. It was mostly veterans who were in their mid to late 20s with something to prove and trying to play well for the Eagles to land longer and bigger contracts in the 2026 offseason.
When looking back on it, how many of those signings were actually good signings for the Eagles, and which ones could have been better? Let's take a look at the best and worst signings by the Eagles in the 2025 offseason.
Who were the best signings from Eagles' 2025 free agent class?
If we are being honest, there weren't many impact-free agent signings from the class, but the only player who made more of an impact than anyone else was long snapper Charley Hughlett. This might seem small, but Hughlett replaced a legend at long snapper, Rick Lovato, and while Hughlett had injury issues during the season, when he was on the field, he did his job well and should be back in 2026 doing it again.
A lot of Eagles fans aren't going to like this one, but Adoree' Jackson played probably the biggest role on the team. The first half of the year was rough, like really bad to watch, but in the back half of the year, Jackson was playing really good football except for the loss to the San Francisco 49ers in the NFC Wild Card game. It seems unlikely Jackson is back for 2026; he did an okay job replacing Darius Slay as CB2.
It's a shame he didn't get really any snaps on defense late in the season, but Joshua Uche was one of the Eagles' top pass rushers in the first half of the year as he had 23 pressures, 21 hurries, and one sack. After acquiring Jaelan Phillips at the trade deadline, Uche's playing time ended; he was either inactive or on special teams, but he still made a nice impact on defense.
Who proved to be truly one-and-done players?
Outside of those three, there were a lot of players who just didn't make the kind of impact they were supposed to. The two biggest disappointments from the class are no doubt Azeez Ojulari and A.J. Dillon.
Ojulari had a lot of hype and potential behind him, but wasn't great on special teams and got lost in the rotation at edge the beginning of the season, so once his injury happened, his time in Philly was pretty much done then. For Dillion, it took a muffed kickoff and fumble on offense within a few plays of each other against the New York Giants in Week 6 to make him inactive the rest of the season and replaced by Tank Bigsby as the backup running back.
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This is not a great free agent class, but it was never really meant to be, as Roseman just wanted a bunch of rentals and could most likely do that again this offseason with the draft getting more attention from the Eagles.