Philadelphia Eagles: PFF names the team’s best and worst contract
By David Esser
In a recent post on pff.com (subscription required), the Pro Football Focus staff took some time to rank the best and worst contracts on each NFC team. Using a mix of standard box score statistics and their own unique grading system, here’s a look at who landed on the list for the Philadelphia Eagles.
The best and worst contracts currently on the Philadelphia Eagles, according to Pro Football Focus:
Worst: Jake Elliott
There were so many issues with the Philadelphia Eagles on-field performance last season that the disaster that ended up being Jake Elliott‘s 2020 somewhat went under the radar. The now veteran kicker had a career-worst field goal percentage of 73.7, with two of his misses coming under 30 yards.
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It’s not all that uncommon for kickers to randomly forget how to kick, which is why you see such a wild turnover rate around the NFL when it comes to kicking jobs. Team are constantly cutting and signing kickers, rarely handing out longterm extensions unless it’s someone really special.
Unfortunately for Howie Roseman and the Eagles, they were foolish enough to actually hand out a big-time extension to Elliott, a deal that’s pretty much forcing the team to keep him around this season.
Elliott is in the midst of a five-year/$19 million extension, and releasing him would actually result in less cap space for the Eagles. There is a potential opt-out in place after this season, but it would still result in $3.57 million of dead cap.
Being financially “glued” to a bad player is one thing, being financially glued to a bad kicker is borderline silly. Makes perfect sense why PFF named Elliott the team’s worst contract at the moment.