6 Eagles Players Named To 2025 NFL Pro Bowl

The initial 2025 Pro Bowl roster is out, and there are a lot of familiar faces on it. 6 Eagles were named to the team. Here are the Eagles who made it.

Barkley, Johnson, and Dickerson have all been selected before. But for Jurgens, Baun, and Carter, this is their 1st time receiving their honor.

There was obvious concern about how it would go with Cam Jurgens this year. Not because people doubted him, but because he was replacing a legend. Jason Kelce is a likely 1st ballot Hall of Famer. He retired as one of the best centers in NFL history. It is hard to go from that height, and not skip a beat, but Jurgens has filled right in.

Baun is also a surprise. Mostly because he had hardly ever played ILB before this season. He came to the Eagles having mostly been a rotational Edge Rusher. When Vic Fangio said before the season that Baun was one of the best LBs they had, people assumed he misspoke. Shows what we know. Baun won the starting job, and then went on to be one of the best Linebackers in the country. He is tied for the League Lead in Stops.

The other 4 are less surprising. Saquon came to the Eagles as one of the best backs in the league. Running behind 3 Pro Bowl Linemen, plus Jordan Mailata who arguably should have been a Pro Bowler, Barkley put together the 9th 2000-yard season ever. He had a shot at the record too, but with the last game meaning nothing Nick Sirianni decided to rest him. This is Barkley's 3rd Pro Bowl Selection.

For Lane Johnson, it will be his 6th Pro Bowl in 12 seasons. Lane has proved himself to be one of the best tackles in the league period, and age has not taken its toll on him yet. Even as he battles through injuries every year, Johnson keeps proving he is still as good as ever. Recently he went toe to toe with TJ Watt, and gave up no ground.

For Dickerson, it is his 3rd Pro Bowl in 4 seasons. They drafted Dickerson out of Bama, with the intention he would one day replace Kelce. But he was so dominant at LG, they had no choice but to leave him there. This selection ties him with Brandon Brooks for the most Pro Bowls as a Guard in Eagles history.

Then finally there is Jalen Carter. Eagles knew they were getting a great player when he fell to them two drafts ago. He received All-Rookie honors last year, and nearly took Defensive Rookie Of The Year, but a late-season swoon cost him the award. He came back with a vengeance this year. Not only playing at a high level, with 61 Pressures, 5 pass deflections, and 3 Forced Fumbles, but playing nearly every snap too.

They had 6 Pro Bowlers, the 3rd most in the league. But they could have arguably had more. They might still get more. These 12 Players are alternates and could be added if players have to drop out.

AJ Brown and Jordan Mailata both missed time, likely hurting their cases. Still, you would be hard-pressed to find many players better than either of them at what they do. Quinyon Mitchell had a strong case, but it can be hard for rookies to get that recognition.

Ideally, none of them will be playing in it. If you are in the Super Bowl, you don't play in the game, because it takes place in that off week between the Championship Games and the Super Bowl. So while it is nice to get the honor, hopefully, none of them will be in attendance.

It took a week longer than expected, but the Eagles have clinched the NFC East. In doing so, they also clinched the 2-seed. They will not have a first-round bye week, and they do not yet know who they will play in the 1st round, but they do know the game will be at home, and that they will be playing at home vs any team other than the 1-seed.

Even without Jalen Hurts, they crushed the Cowboys. They beat them 41-7. They even lost their backup QB and had to go to 3rd string QB Tanner McKee, and yet they still added 17 more points.

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Both sides got off to a rocky start, as we are used to by now. The defense was letting the Cowboys move the ball with ease on the first drive before CJ Gardner Johnson got a pick 6, but they followed that up by letting the Cowboys easily move down the field again to tie it up. Meanwhile, the offense went 3 and out on their 1st two drives. but like they did in every other game this season, they kicked it into another gear in the 2nd quarter and rattled off 34 unanswered points.

And of course, Saquon Barkley made history, becoming just the 9th player in NFL history to reach 2000 rushing yards. He came up 100 yards short of the All-Time record, and might not get the chance now that the Eagles have nothing to play for next week, but they made sure to send Saquon back out there so he could at least get 2000.

But how did it all go down? How impressive was the win really? Let's break the Eagles win down by the numbers.

As already mentioned, the Eagles defense started off slow. Yes they got the pick 6, but the Cowboys were moving the ball. They averaged 5.5 yards per play on those two drives, gaining 105 total yards on 19 plays. It seemed like the struggles from late in the Commander's game were carrying over to this game. But the defense shut them down from then on.

They gave up just 163 yards the rest of the way on 41 plays. Down from 5.5 yards per play, to 3.9. And down from 52.4 yards per drive to 20.4. 104 of those yards came on two drives, one that ended in a fumble. On the other 6 drives, they averaged 9.8 yards per drive and 2.9 yards per play. The Eagles were back to their usual selves.

Yes it was the Cowboys, and yes they had no CeeDee Lamb. But we have seen this defense do this exact thing to much better offenses. It was just good to see them bounce back from how ugly it looked at the end of last week.

Nolan Smith had a very rocky start to his Eagles career. He barely got on the field during his rookie season, and when he did he was mostly ineffective. Even to start this season, he was not flashing the potential that made him a 1st round pick. But the Eagles patience eventually paid off. Sunday made it 4 straight games with at least 3 pressures. He never got to Cooper Rush, but he led the Eagles with 3 pressures and forced a fumble.

Smith is up to 31 pressures and 6.5 sacks. And in the 5 games since Brandon Graham was injured and Nolan Smith was forced into an increased role Smith has 17 pressures and 3 sacks. We knew they were going to have to rely on him this season. Even more so with all the injuries they had at Edge Rusher. He has answered the call.

Kickoff were a major issue last week. Braden Mann didn't get a single touchback. Which is why they made the switch to Jake Elliott. Now granted, it was much warmer and hence easier to kick the ball out of the End Zone, but 5 of his 7 kickoffs went for a touchback. When the kick was returned, the Eagles did a much better job covering the return. Kavonte Turpin, the best return man in the league, averaged just 24 yards per return.

After giving up favorable field position on nearly every drive against the Commanders, the Eagles were able to win that battle this week. Elliott should continue to handle those duties going forward. Maybe it will help him keep warm too and lead to better results on long FGs.

It was a bit of a struggle with Kenny Pickett last Sunday. The Eagles were not able to run their usual offense, the Commanders showed him no respect, and he could not make them pay. Because of that, Saquon could not get going either, as he faced stacked boxes every time he touched the ball.

So with a week of practice, and a gameplan designed to suit his skillset how did he fare? Much better. After the slow start, Pickett was able to do what he needed to keep the Cowboys' defense honest and let Saquon have some space to run. Even when Tanner Mckee came in, the offense kept humming. In fact between Pickett and McKee, there were only 6 incompletions, compared to 3 TDs. And it is not like they took no chances. Picket was 3 for 3 on passes of over 20 yards. Tanner Mckee was 1 of 2. They had 2 TDs on those deep throws.

They still obviously missed what hurts brings to the table still. But Pickett and McKee were able to keep the ship afloat.

This one is obvious, but it needs to be stated. Saquon Barkley reached 2000 yards on the season. Not only the becoming the 1st Eagle to ever do that, but only the 9th player period. The game was well in hand. The Eagles could have sat their started, and not given Barkley the chance to reach that milestone. But they left their starters in a bit longer, Barkley quickly rattled off the yards he needed, closing it out with a 20+ yard run, and then all the starters came out, and they celebrated.

We knew Saquon was good. I don't know of many people expected him to have one of the greatest RB seasons of all time though. Saquon Barkley, behind this O-Line, with these WRS pulling pressure off him, is a match made in heaven. To stop him, you would have to completely sell out to stop the run like the Commanders did. The Steelers tried that too though, and with a healthy Hurts, they made them pay. You can't leave AJ brown or Devonta Smith in single-man-to-man coverage. But the more people you drop back, the harder it is to stop the Eagles run game. If you leave these O-Linemen in 1-on-1s, they are going to win too.

pretty much what I am saying is that when everyone is healthy, the Eagles offense is impossible to stop for 4 quarters.