Eagles Howie Roseman Ranked Top GM in NFL

The longtime Philadelphia Eagles front office member is also the league's reigning executive of the year

Two Super Bowl appearances in five years with two different coaches and quarterbacks.

That’s just a portion of the résumé that landed Philadelphia Eagles general manager Howie Roseman atop the GM rankings released by NFL Media’s Gregg Rosenthal on Thursday.

Roseman is already the reigning executive of the year, so the fact that he is considered the top GM in the league is not a surprise.

Rosenthal's ranking can be found here.

It’s a sliding scale, however, and now the trick is to remain there, or at least in the top five.

“I love this, I really do,” said Roseman prior to the Eagles’ participating in Super Bowl LVII on Feb. 12. “I love having the opportunity to put teams together. I love working with people I care about. I love the competition of it. I don't know why. I love it.

“And I don't take it for granted that I have this opportunity at all. Every day I wake up and say, what can I do today to make sure that our team is in a better place, and that the people around me have an opportunity to be successful?"

Roseman has been part of the Eagles organization since interning in the front office back in 2000.

He was the GM then had that role taken away from him for a year when then-coach Chip Kelly won a power struggle and was given GM duties to go along with his coaching duties in 2015.

"I feel like I gotta constantly prove myself and I think there are some negatives that come with that when you’re that determined, that persistent and that passionate," Roseman said. "But I am proud that I've been doing this as long as I have, and that I still feel that way.”

Kelly failed in that role, was fired, and Roseman was returned from his banishment by owner Jeffrey Lurie.

“I remember somebody came up to me, like a media person, and said after a bad year, ‘Are you going to do short-term things because you're worried about your job?’” Roseman said. “And I think because I have been here, I care so much about the Eagles and the people who work here, I would never do anything that I didn't think was in the best interest of this team. For the short term and long term. I would never do that because of (my job security).

“This team, this city has given me and my family too much. I would never ever do that. So everything I'm doing is not based on my job security. It's based on what is right for our ownership, our coaches, our players. That doesn't mean I'm gonna be right all the time. I'm fucking wrong a lot, as we know, but I would never ever do anything that I thought was just best for me, ever.”

Other GMs on Roesenthal’s list include a pair of executives who worked under Roseman before getting their shot at being a general manager – New York Jets Joe Douglas and Cleveland Browns Andrew Berry.

Douglas was ranked No. 16 and Berry was No. 19.

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