Dallas Goedert isn’t going anywhere.
The Eagles reached a one-year deal to retain their veteran tight end on Sunday, according to the NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport. He’ll now get to return for a ninth season with the organization.
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After coming onto the scene as the heir apparent to Zach Ertz as a second-round pick out of South Dakota State in 2018, Goedert enjoyed a steady career in Philadelphia, posting 500-plus receiving yards in all but two of his seasons.
Last season, he found the end zone a career-high 11 times while registering a personal-best 60 receptions. Along the way, he piled up 591 receiving yards.
Eagles general manager Howie Roseman traded Ertz to the Arizona Cardinals during the 2021 season. Ertz was coming up on his 31st birthday at the time. He had helped Philadelphia win its first-ever Super Bowl, and he had earned three Pro Bowl nods.
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Flash forward about four and a half years, and Goedert is in a similar stage of his career now. He’s already 31. He, too, has won a ring with the Eagles, assisting the franchise in bringing home a second Lombardi Trophy.
Though they could have gone a different direction, it’s clear the Eagles still have a lot of love for Goedert, who did an admirable job filling in the big shoes left by Ertz, the franchise’s fifth all-time leading receiver.
Goedert is 14th in that department (4,676 receiving yards), and his 35 career receiving touchdowns are the 10th most a player has ever recorded in an Eagles uniform.
“Tremendously productive for us. Just a huge asset for our offense to have him on our football team. Again, we got to put the whole puzzle together. We got a lot of other free agents, too, and [to] say, ‘Hey, we’re definitely going to get this guy back’ — when we get this late, obviously the market dictates a lot of that as well.”
What Roseman alluded to there was the Eagles reworking Goedert’s contract to keep him with the team last season. That was, after Philadelphia reportedly received trade offers for him during the 2025 NFL Draft and made moves at the position in free agency last year.
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Goedert’s standout 2025 campaign followed his head-turning postseason run that aided the Eagles’ Super Bowl push. During the playoffs two seasons ago, he caught 17 passes for 215 yards, leading a team that featured wideouts A.J. Brown and DeVonta Smith in both of those categories.
Though Goedert’s future with the Eagles will be revisited again next offseason, he’ll at least get one more run with the franchise this fall.
