The Eagles haven’t had a lot of opportunities to free up cap space this offseason, but Howie Roseman has been making it work with re-signing players, restructuring contracts, and adding many void years to incoming contracts. His latest move was to restructure Jake Elliott’s contract in a win-win for the player and the team — he gets a fully guaranteed $5 million deal, and the Eagles reduce the kicker’s cap hit by nearly a quarter of a million dollars.
Despite outside concerns about Elliott after a 2025 season in which he struggled, internally, the team has continued to voice their confidence in the kicker. By restructuring Elliott’s contract, the Eagles are signaling that he’s likely still their guy in 2026.
At the end of last season, Elliott couldn’t point to one specific thing resulting in his eight missed kicks — seven field goals and one point after attempt —, but didn’t think it was something related to the mental aspect of the game. Perhaps more concerning than the total field goals missed, was where he was struggling, because he was only 4-of-8 from 50-plus yards, which is a distance he’s historically been really solid from.
Hopefully, he’s able to figure out what went wrong in 2025 and is able to come back and be the reliable kicker Philadelphia is used to, and needs him to be.
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