Eagles Newcomer Shouldering Familiar Burden in First Season
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0 Share Newsweek is a Trust Project member See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Philadelphia Eagles general manager Howie Roseman was busy this offseason.
Roseman, who has never been shy to shake things up, didn’t have much of a choice but to make wholesale changes to his roster after sending wide receiver A.J. Brown to the New England Patriots.
Dontayvion Wicks, Elijah Moore, Hollywood Brown and first-round pick Makai Lemon were added to help replace Brown. Riq Woolen and Jonathan Jones were brought aboard to supplement Cooper DeJean and Quinyon Mitchell. Arnold Ebiketie will be asked to replace some of the production lost in Jaelan Phillips. Jalen Carter and Dallas Goedert will return under new contracts.
It’s safe to say he checked off plenty of boxes.
The Eagles have an outrageous recent history when it comes to offensive coordinators.
Sirianni has now employed five during his tenure as head coach, with half of them earning head coaching opportunities of their own due to such success (Shane Steichen and Kellen Moore) and the other half being fired after just one season (Brian Johnson and Kevin Patullo).
Mannion is looking to fit into that former category, with his already tremendous rise to prominence now placing him under the microscope in one of the most difficult markets in all of sports.
Mannion will have to work under odd circumstances, as well, with the organization bringing in both a running game coordinator (Ryan Mahaffey) and a passing game coordinator (Josh Grizzard), as well as a senior offensive assistant (Jerrod Johnson) while also replacing longtime offensive line coach Jeff Stoutland with Chris Kuper.
Philadelphia is expected to lean heavily into its physicality , with Jalen Hurts and Saquon Barkley leading the way for an offense that saw rushing attempts dip from a league-leading 621 in 2024 to an oddly low 478 in 2025.
“Saquon, he's a tremendous player, so everything we do offensively ultimately is about how do we put all of our players in the best position to succeed,” Mannion said on Saturday, per NFL Media. “Saquon's a focal point of our offense, that goes without saying. We carry that mindset into everything we do schematically, what we're repping at practice and all the different facets of that go hand in hand.”
If he can figure out how to fix the 24th ranked total offense (311.2 yards per game in 2025) with all of those moving parts, he might just be worth all of the hype. If he can’t, history tells us that he might not be given a long leash.
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