Start with free agents:

CB - Woolen (starter), Jones (primary back up) Ringo (core special teamer),

DT - Ojomo (primary backup), Byron Young (rotational)

Edge - Ebilite (rotational), Epanesa (rotational)

S - Epps (primary backup), Moore (starter)

G - Steen (starter)

OT - Big Fred (primary backup)

QB - McKee

RB - Bigsby (Primary backup), Pierce, Mitchell

TE - Goedert (starter), Calcaterra, Mundt (3rd TE)

WR - Hollywood (rotational)

Without some resignings thats a long list -

4 starters - CB Woolen, S Moore, G Steen, TE Goedert

3 who play a high % of downs - DT Ojomo, Bigsby, TE Mundt

2 - primary backup- CB Jones, OT Big Fred,

3 depth/rotatonal players - Edge Ebilite, Edge Emanesa, DT Byron Young

1 core special teamer - CB Ringo

6 to just wave goodbye to - McKee, Hollywood, Epps, Pierce, Mitchell and Calcaterra

The Eagles have $9M carrryover and $37M next year giving them $46M inpotential spending. Subtract $10M for their draft class and practice squad and it's $36M

Woolen didn't have a standout year and could be brought back. Letting him walk costs $8M in dead money, he made $6M this year - resign him for $10M

Kick the can down the roadf with Goedert - another $10M year

Bigsby for $3M

Can't have only 1 safety on the roster before the draft - Moore for $2

Ringo for $2M

One of the Edge players for $2M

That's leaves $7M for Howie to sign free agents with.

With no info about free agents and only $7M availalbe, let's look at filling the holes with the draft

Pick in the top 10 - trade it for a 1 and a 2, then trade it again for a 1 and a 3

With a 1, 2-2's, 2-3's, a 4, 2-5's and 2 7's we should be able to reload our depth and sore at least 2 starters.

1 - OG Trevor Lauck, Iowa 6'5" 310, replaces Steen and starts

2 - S Kingston Lopa, California 6'5" 210 replaces Epps and starts

2 - OT Carter Smith, Indiana 6'5" 313 replaces Big Fred and is primary backup OT

3 - DT Justin Scott, Miami(FL) 6'3" 304 replaces Ojomo Immediate rotational player along with Ty Robinson

3 - TE Peter Clarke, Temple 6'6" 272 replaces Mundt

4 - Edge Adam Trick, Texas TEch 6'4" 249 replaces either Ebilits, or Epanesa

5 - WR Nyck /HArbor, South Carolina 6'5" 235 replaces Hollywood

5 - LB - Drayk Bowen, Notre Dame 6'2" 235

7 - QB - Josh Hoover, Indiana, 6'1" 200 replaces McKee

7 - CB - AJ Harris, Indiana 6'1" 190

With a 4th place schedule and Hurts, Squon, Davante Smith, and Wicks healthy the playoffs are attainalbe. then in 2028 we have 2 more 1's and 2 2's. that's 4 more upgrades.

Going in to next year we need:

4 new OL, 2 TE, 1 WR. And depending on what they do with Jalen we might need a QB though I suspect not.

On defense we need a stud DE, a new LB, a new CB and 2 starting safeties.

We have lots of needs that’s for sure… I don’t like the replace (so and so) in this layout a lot of those players have been trash hopefully we upgrade not just replace

Offensive line is clearly the # 1 need at Center, Guard and Tackle. All three need to be addressed in the draft or Free Agency.

Safety needs an upgrade too. Blankenship was a huge loss for the defense. So was Nakobe Dean.

The real question is when you are in the top 5 Howie has said you look at QB's regardless of need.