Eagles Predicted to Replace $57 Million Playmaker
Tight end Dallas Goedert has been a valuable contributor for the Philadelphia Eagles offense over eight years. But his tenure with the team could be coming to an end at the conclusion of the 2025 NFL season.
CBS Sports’ Mike Renner sees that to be the case. Renner projected the Eagles to replace Goedert in the first round of his latest 2026 NFL mock draft.
At No. 28 overall in the new mock, the Eagles selected Oregon tight end Kenyon Sadiq.
“With this potentially being Dallas Goedert’s last season with the Eagles, finding his replacement is a must,” Renner wrote. “Even if it’s not Goedert’s last, they still play enough 12 and 13 personnel to make this a need — especially with how poor their backup tight ends have been in the run game, where Sadiq gets after it.”
Through roughly the first half of the 2025 season, Sadiq has posted 21 catches for 305 yards. He’s just four yards shy of a new career high.
Sadiq also has a career-best 14.5 yards per catch average and five touchdowns this season.
Goedert, who turns 31 years old in January, has shown signs of slowing down. In six games this season, he has 27 catches for 261 yards. His 9.7 yards per reception average is a career low.
However, Goedert has already tied his career best of five receiving touchdowns.
Eagles Already Considered Moving on From TE Dallas Goedert
It wouldn’t be shocking if this is Goedert’s last season with the Eagles. That’s because, according to Jeff McLane of
McLane reported Philadelphia received offers for the tight end during the 2025 draft. Instead of dealing Goedert, though, the Eagles restructured his contract.
Goedert has a $10 million salary this season. Over eight years in Philadelphia, the tight end has earned about $57.3 million.
The decision to keep the veteran tight end is paying significant dividends. Goedert leads the team in receiving touchdowns after seven weeks.
Goedert leads the Eagles in that category despite missing a game.
But the veteran tight end isn’t the playmaker in the middle of the field he once was.
Why the Eagles Could Target Oregon TE Kenyon Sadiq
There’s still a long way to go until the 2026 NFL Draft. Depending on free agency and injuries, the Eagles could have other more pressing needs than tight end by April.
But even if Goedert returns for 2026, tight end will very likely be a need for the Eagles entering the draft.
Fellow tight end Grant Calcaterra was a candidate to take away playing time from Goedert this fall. Before the season, some pundits argued Calcaterra could make Goedert expendable for the Eagles.
But in five games, Calcaterra has just four catches for 40 yards. He doesn’t have any touchdowns, and in his small sample, he’s averaging roughly the same amount of yards per catch as Goedert.
It doesn’t appear his production is going to increase any time soon either. Calcaterra has missed the past two games with an oblique injury.
Sadiq is experiencing his best statistical season at Oregon. He was the first tight end off the board in Renner’s latest mock.
1 Quiet Reason the Raiders' Offense Has Struggled This Season
The Las Vegas Raiders' offense has struggled this season for various reasons, mainly subpar play along the offensive line and at quarterback. However, the lack of playmakers at skill positions, for various reasons, have held the Raiders' offense back.
Raiders Rookies Must Improve
The Raiders invested a second-round pick into drafting Jack Bech, proving how much they believed in him before he ever put a Raiders jersey on. However, Bech must do his part and work through the growing pains only the Raiders' coaching staff knows about.
Bech and Dont'e Thornton were brought in to be two of those playmakers but have yet to make much of an impact. Bech's lack of playing time on an offense in desperate need of help at wide receiver speaks volumes about where Las Vegas' coaching staff believes he is developmentally.
“The more plays that we can log with the new guys, Jack [Bech] and Dont'e [Thornton Jr.], we can show them the things that they need to improve on and the things that they're not quite as sharp on. It helps them. And there's some pain in that too. There's some pain in there that we have to undergo. But it's how you do it,” Carroll said.
“By the time you get to the middle of the season, these guys should have things really cleaned up, and they should be ready to go and we can count on them and they can come through and not be error repeaters, you know? And that's what we're working hard at."
During the Bye Week, Raiders' Wide Receivers Coach Chris Beatty gave an update on the development of both of Las Vegas' wide receivers. If the Raiders can get Bech and Thornton up to speed quickly, it could alleviate some of the issues they are having on offense.
"Some ups and downs. We have got to be more consistent. Both of those guys are learning a lot. Theres good and bad in everything. First couple of games, Dont'e had an explosive play in every game," Beatty said.
"He has kind of fell back a little bit and some of the fundamentals, we have got to continue to build on. Same thing with Jack. They have done okay but there is a lot more out there. So, we will keep pushing them and getting the most out of them."
