Defensive Tackle · Philadelphia Eagles

Jalen Carter

No. 98 · 4th season

Another deal gets done somewhere else, and now Carter's waiting room gets louder

Contract negotiations have a way of moving sideways before they move forward. Jalen Carter is in the middle of that right now with the Philadelphia Eagles — and a deal signed by someone else just changed the conversation.

Carter has been one of the most disruptive defensive players in the league since he arrived. The kind of presence on the interior that offensive lines spend weeks scheming around. That kind of player eventually gets to a table, and Carter is there.

Jeffrey Simmons, a defensive tackle for the Tennessee Titans, recently signed a new contract. In the NFL, deals like that become reference points — they set a floor, a ceiling, a shape for what comes next. Carter's camp now has new data to work with. So does Philadelphia's front office.

That is where things stand. Neither side is wrong to want what they want, and neither side is going to pretend Simmons's number doesn't exist. The Eagles have a player they clearly believe in. Carter has leverage he just watched someone else cash in on.

The next move belongs to one of them.

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