Jaelan Phillips

5 seasons, 28.5 sacks — Phillips was on a star trajectory before the 2024 injury wall.

Phillips' first three seasons in Miami produced 22.5 sacks and 55 QB hits — top-tier EDGE production. Then a torn Achilles ended his 2024 after just 2 tackles, and the Dolphins traded him to Philadelphia mid-2025. The post-trade Eagles stretch (13 tackles, 2 sacks, 7 QB hits, 4 TFL) suggests the recovery is on track.

Pre-injury career: 22.5 sacks in 39 games — 0.58 sacks/game pace.

Through his first three Miami seasons, Phillips averaged roughly 0.58 sacks per game — that's a 9.8-sack 17-game pace. The QB-hit rate was even better: 55 hits in 39 games (1.41/game), indicating consistent pressure even when he wasn't finishing.

2025 is the rebuild year: 5 sacks and 14 QB hits through the recorded games. The pressure rate is climbing back, even if the finish rate hasn't fully returned.

2024 was a 1-sack year — and a mid-season trade in 2025 followed.

The 2024 Achilles tear capped Phillips at 2 tackles and 1 sack — effectively a redshirt year. Miami, then committed to a contract reset, dealt him to Philadelphia midway through 2025.

The post-trade split is the more interesting line: 13 tackles, 2 sacks, 7 QB hits, and 4 PDs as a 3-4 OLB in Vic Fangio's scheme. The PD count is unusual for Phillips — it's already more than his career total entering 2025.

2021 1st-rd EDGE class — Phillips has 28.5 sacks, ahead of Kwity Paye (24.5) and Jayson Oweh (21).

From the 2021 draft's first-round EDGE haul (Phillips 18th, Paye 21st, Oweh 31st, Rousseau 30th, Ojulari 50th), Phillips leads the cohort in career sacks (28.5) despite missing essentially all of 2024.

The rebuild on a contender (PHI) at age 26 sets up the second contract year — assuming the post-trade pressure rate holds.

4 PDs in 13 Eagles games — the rare coverage uptick for a pass-rush EDGE.

Phillips' 4 PDs in 13 Eagles games is already a career high for a single team-season. The Dolphins used him as a pure rusher; Fangio's Eagles scheme drops him into short-zone underneath on a meaningful percentage of snaps, and he's converting.

At 6'5" 263, that role expansion could matter for the contract case — versatile EDGEs sign for more than one-trick rushers.