Josh Sweat, Milton Williams, Darius Slay, and C.J. Gardner-Johnson are no longer Eagles. Neither are Isaiah Rodgers, Avonte Maddox, Oren Burks, and retired Eagles all-time great Brandon Graham. Starters Sweat, Slay and Williams left via free agency, and Gardner-Johnson was traded away to the Houston Texans in March.
It was a lot to lose from Vic Fangio’s Super Bowl-winning No. 1 defense in the NFL.
The Eagles have a nauseating large gap to fill defensively, needing to replace 3,369 snaps on defense with the departures of interior defenders Williams (501 snaps), Sweat (622) and Graham (311) and defensive backs Gardner-Johnson (908), Slay Jr.