The Philadelphia
Eagles after the
championship.
A three-year cap management and roster construction plan for a front office facing the classic post-Super Bowl question: how long can this window stay open before the restructure debt closes it?
Executive Summary
Four findings drive the 2026–28 strategy. Each is stated below with the assumption it rests on. If an assumption breaks, the recommendation changes — no finding is declared without a condition.
Closing the $25M gap requires only four deliberate moves.
Restructures of Dickerson, Davis, and Mailata combined with a post-June 1 release of Slay clear the 2026 cap without touching the core rotation. The Eagles get compliant quietly.
Assumes: no major injury cash triggers; Slay is not traded ahead of deadline.
The A.J. Brown decision is the strategic fork.
Extending Brown locks the Eagles into the Keep Kicking path through 2028. Letting him walk in 2027 forces the Managed Reset but creates the cap room to keep the next wave. One choice defines the entire cycle.
Assumes: Brown’s 2026 market value is $28–32M AAV.
Mitchell and DeJean are the most cap-efficient players on the roster.
At 0.310 and 0.286 WAR per $1M, the rookie-deal corners outperform every veteran on a dollar-per-win basis. The 2028 strategy is built around locking them in before their rookie windows close.
Assumes: Year-3 WAR stays within ±15% of 2025 baseline.
The 2027–28 cliff is real but manageable.
Under Managed Reset, the Eagles absorb one painful 2027 offseason and emerge with clean books. Under Keep Kicking combined with market-rate FA replacements, they enter 2028 with no cap flexibility and an aging core.
Assumes: 7.5% annual cap growth holds through 2028.
The Eagles can stay competitive through 2028 — but only if they stop restructuring like they’re still trying to win the 2025 Super Bowl. The championship is in the bank. The next strategy starts now.
Contents of the Interactive Report
Five tabs. Each solves one decision a front office faces in the 2026 cycle. The full report is a live web application — all figures are derived from public Over the Cap and Spotrac data with confidence levels noted inline.
Cap Overview
Position-group cap commitments (2026–28), cap history chart, four-team philosophy comparison against the Chiefs, Bills, and 49ers, WAR-per-dollar efficiency scatter, and dead cap risk rankings.
Restructure Simulator
Live cap math. Apply or remove any combination of restructures and releases and watch 2026, 2027, and 2028 cap space update in real time. Includes a waterfall chart showing which moves contribute which dollars.
Free Agent Tool
Eagles UFAs with keep/let-walk recommendations, external FA targets ranked by fit, and a custom contract calculator that takes any player’s expected deal and shows how it fits within current and projected cap.
Cliff Analysis
Three multi-year scenarios projecting 2027–28 cap health under different restructure aggressiveness levels: Keep Kicking, Managed Reset, and Forced Reset. Shows the trajectory of dead cap risk in each path.
Strategy Report
The full five-section written analysis rendered in-app with relevant charts embedded per section. The long-form argument behind every number shown in the other four tabs.
Methodology & Sources
Every dollar figure is tagged by source and confidence. Cap data is public but noisy across providers; the analysis reconciles where sources disagree.
The full analysis is
live and interactive.
Every chart, scenario, and decision described in this cover is executable inside the Streamlit application. Open the report to simulate restructures, test free agent targets, and explore the 2027–28 cliff scenarios yourself.
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Armaan Sharma 