The Eagles' Tight End Room Needs a Complete Tear-Down — Here's the Plan

The Eagles don't just need a new tight end. They need an entirely new tight end room.

Dallas Goedert's future in Philadelphia is cloudy at best. Grant Calcaterra, CJ Uzomah, and Albert Okwuegbunam are all free agents. The depth chart is effectively blank — and the Eagles know it.

Six Interviews, Zero Coincidences

The Eagles interviewed six tight ends at the 2026 NFL Combine. That's not casual interest. That's a position group they're planning to overhaul through the draft.

The headliner is Oregon's Kenyon Sadiq, the consensus TE1 who ran the fastest 40 by a tight end in over two decades. But the Eagles didn't even formally interview Sadiq — which suggests they're either confident he won't fall to their pick or they're focused on the mid-round options where the real depth lives.

Vanderbilt's Eli Stowers posted the highest relative athletic score at the position. He's the kind of versatile weapon who could develop into a difference-maker. But the Eagles also went heavy on blocking tight ends at the combine, which tells you everything about what they learned from last season.

The Blocking Problem

Last year's tight end room was a disaster in the run game. The Eagles played heavy 12 and 13 personnel packages, and nobody could block at the tight end position. Howie Roseman has admitted the team needs to "evolve" its approach — code for "we need a tight end who can actually set an edge."

That's why the Michael Mayer trade rumors are worth monitoring. The Las Vegas Raiders' second-year tight end can block AND catch, which makes him a rare commodity. Whether Las Vegas actually moves him is another question — they need tight ends too.

The Goedert Question

Can the Eagles bring Dallas Goedert back? Sure. But at what cost? The run-blocking deficiency needs to be addressed regardless, and the draft offers cheaper, younger solutions. Calcaterra or one of the other free agents might return on a veteran minimum deal as a bridge, but the long-term answer is coming through the draft.

This is a deep tight end class arriving at exactly the right time for Philadelphia.