As the Philadelphia Eagles prepare to open training camp and the franchises defense of its second Super Bowl championship, the team announced several front office and scouting department changes for the upcoming season.
The biggest move announced is the Eagles’ making the hiring of Joe Douglas official, with the title of Senior Personnel Director/Advisor to the General Manager.
Douglas, 49, returns to the organization where he previously spent five seasons as the Vice President of Player Personnel, and following a five-plus season tenure as the New York Jets‘ general manager.
Meanwhile, Duke Tobin Jr., the son of Cincinnati Bengals general manager Duke Tobin, has been promoted to a role as a Midlands Area Scout, after previously serving as a scouting assistant for the Eagles.
Amid the same flurry of moves, Ryan Myers was named the Eagles’ Director of College Scouting.
Here is a full breakdown of changes the Eagles made within the front office and scouting department, as the organization officially begins the 2025 NFL season:
Scouting
- Ryan Myers – Director of College Scouting
- Matt Holland – Assistant Director of College Scouting
- Jarrod Kilburn – Assistant Director of Pro Scouting
- Terrence Braxton – Pro Scout
- Rod Streater – West Coast Area Scout
- Duke Tobin – Midlands Area Scout
Football Operations
- James Gilman – Senior Director of Football Research and Strategy
- Jon Liu – Director of Football Analytics
- Zachary Steever – Assistant Director of Football Research and Strategy
NEW HIRES
Scouting
- Joe Douglas – Senior Personnel Director/Advisor to the General Manager
- Preston Tiffany – NFS Scout
Football Operations
- Smit Bajaj – Quantitative Analyst
- Grant Reiter – Football Transactions Coordinator
- Molly Rottinghaus – Football Operations Coordinator
- Leif Thorson – Software Developer
Howie Roseman, Eagles Consistently Staying Above Drama
GettyPhiladelphia Eagles general manager Howie Roseman has done a masterful job of avoiding contract drama during his tenure.
In a lot of ways, the Eagles have become a model franchise, under general manager Howie Roseman.
Making three Super Bowl appearances and hoisting two Lombardi Trophies over the past eight seasons, and doing so with two different head coaches and quarterbacks is a rare feat in recent NFL history.
Similarly, from a roster construction standpoint, Roseman and the Eagles have consistently adeptly built a roster with a backbone of elite homegrown talent while not being afraid to take big swings to supplement those players in free agency.
However, according to veteran Eagles beat reporter Reuben Frank, there’s another critical element to Roseman’s run of success in Philadelphia. Avoiding Drama.
This summer, Micah Parsons and the Dallas Cowboys are at a friction point when it comes to the elite edge rusher’s upcoming contract extension, All-Pro edge rusher Trey Hendrickson is holding out from Cincinnati Bengals training camp at an impasse in his talks, and there have been several 11th-hour contracts signed just in time for star players across the league to report.
As Frank points out, the Eagles have largely stayed above that fray.
“Year after year,” Frank writes for NBC Sports Philadelphia. “Howie Roseman has managed to avoid that sort of stuff. The last Eagles player to hold out from training camp was DeSean Jackson, who missed the first 11 days of training camp at Lehigh in 2011 in a contract dispute. By taking care of important contracts early, paying fair market value for deserving players and cutting ties with guys who he knows will have future contract issues, Roseman has managed to avoid ugly contract situations for most of his GM tenure. Zach Ertz in 2021 could have gotten ugly but never did. Other than that? It’s been smooth sailing and that’s huge. Contract drama can really have a damaging effect on a team. Just another thing Roseman is really good at.”
Signing veteran stars such as Jalen Hurts, A.J. Brown, DeVonta Smith, and others, before they enter a lame duck season doesn’t just send a message to the locker room that the Eagles are committed to rewarding their top contributors for past success and investing in their future, but also props Philadelphia’s Super Bowl window open even further because these deals often look far more favorable in future years when the cap rises and other mega-deals are signed at the position.
Unlike in Cincinnati, Dallas, and other NFL outposts, Philadelphia is once again opening camp without a holdout or any contract drama hanging over the franchise’s heads, and that’s largely a testament to how Roseman has operated during his tenure as general manager.
Eagles Safety Position Battle Wide-Open
Todd Kirkland | GettyPhiladelphia Eagles rookie safety Andrew Mukuba could steal a starting job out of training camp this summer.
After trading veteran C.J. Gardner-Johnson to the Houston Texans this offseason, the battle for the Eagles’ starting safety job figures to be one of the more competitive across the roster this summer.
Reed Blankenship figures to play a key role in the Eagles’ secondary, but whether second-round rookie Andrew Mukuba shows this summer that he’s ready to step into a starting role or is supplanted by the likes of Sydney Brown, Tristin McCollum or Lewis Cine remain to be seen.
USATODAY Eagles Wire’s Glenn Erby suggests that the safety battle is one of the more important about to play out at the NovaCare Complex over the next several weeks.
“The Eagles traded C.J. Gardner-Johnson to Houston for Kenyon Green,” Erby Writes for Eagles Wire. “Opening up a starting role for Sydney Brown or Tristin McCollum. Brown is a physical safety who is stout on special teams but doesn’t operate efficiently in space or match up against elite pass catchers. Enter Andrew Mukuba, a Swiss army knife from Texas who could keep Brown relegated to special team duties. Mukuba can play the slot, operate in space, and play with range, drawing comparisons to Gardner-Johnson.”
Mukuba’s positional versatility should get him on the field early, especially given that the Eagles invested a premium draft choice to select him out of Texas, where he winds up, though, could be determined during training camp and the preseason ahead.
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