The Philadelphia Eagles offloading Bryce Huff this offseason faces some MAJOR hurdles based on recent precedent
The Bryce Huff experience in Philadelphia is…not going well. Huff, who signed a three-year, $51 million contract with the Eagles last offseason as a part of the team's replacement plan for Haason Reddick, played less than 300 snaps for the Eagles in 2024 and is now skipping the team's Organized Team Activities (OTAs) after bypassing […]
The Bryce Huff experience in Philadelphia is…not going well. Huff, who signed a three-year, $51 million contract with the Eagles last offseason as a part of the team's replacement plan for Haason Reddick, played less than 300 snaps for the Eagles in 2024 and is now skipping the team's Organized Team Activities (OTAs) after bypassing offseason workouts this spring.
As a result, the latest reports out of Philadelphia have Huff potentially on the outs with the Eagles. The Philadelphia Inquirer's Jeff McLane went as far as to say Huff is “unlikely to be part of the Eagles’ plans for 2025." But given the nature of his contract, moving on from Huff will be easier said than done unless the Eagles are willing to pay him his guarantees for 2025 to simply go away and cut him.
Huff's three-year contract featured $34 million fully guaranteed — the total of both his 2024 and 2025 salaries and bonuses. With his current cash schedule, any team that Philadelphia angles to trade Huff to in the weeks ahead would have to be willing to absorb a $16.75 million commitment in salary this year, fully guaranteed. To put that price tag into context, its nearly $3 million more than Reddick, who the Eagles traded last offseason, signed for this spring in Tampa Bay. And that's before you get to the potential overhead of another $17.1 million due to him, non-guaranteed, in 2026.
This cost for a player coming off of such an uneventful 2024 season feels like an insurmountable hill to climb unless Philadelphia is willing to pay a significant portion (i.e. almost all) of Huff's guaranteed salary for 2025 or willing to accept next to nothing for his services. Even if they do pay off most of his salary, the trade compensation may still be next to nothing. Ironically, one of the players Philadelphia brought in this offseason in free agency can serve as a cautionary tale for the potential trade value of Huff.
Last fall, the New England Patriots traded pass rusher Josh Uche to the Kansas City Chiefs for a future sixth-round draft choice. Uche was playing on a one-year deal in New England for $3 million in salary — nearly one-sixth of what Huff is scheduled to receive this season. Uche, like Huff, is viewed as a designated pass rush specialist who is a role-specific talent. Huff has never played more than 480 snaps in a season for this reason; Uche's career max is 374 snaps.
If Uche, owed $3 million, was worth a future sixth-round pick in 2026 when traded last fall, what is the trade value of Huff coming off a season marred by a wrist injury and being a healthy scratch in the Super Bowl? Even if the Eagles pay significant amounts of Huff's salary, they're likely looking at a future throwaway pick just to get him off the roster if they are indeed intent on moving on.
The Eagles are going to be on the hook for a nasty bill if they were to cut Huff outright. By doing so after June 1st, they can split the salary cap fallout between the 2025 and 2026 bookkeeping. After cutting him a check for the $15.58 million option bonus and his $1.17 million base salary, both fully guaranteed, the Eagles would carry dead cap hits of $7,410,853 million in 2025 and $21,838,559 million in 2026.
For two and a half sacks and a few hundred snaps, that one hurts. But when you're the reigning Super Bowl champions, even the biggest of misses can only hurt so much. Barring a suitor who comes in far above expectation in a willingness to shoulder Huff's lingering commitments, it may actually behoove the Eagles to find a way to make it work in 2025. Huff, even in a limited role, may be more valuable than a future late-round pick for the price tag.
As it turns out, Huff has replaced Reddick in more ways than one.
