Eagles Set to Lose Top Executive After NFL Draft

The Philadelphia Eagles VP of Football Administration will be leaving the organization after the upcoming NFL Draft.

Oct 24, 2021; Paradise, Nevada, USA; Philadelphia Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie (left) and general manager Howie Roseman. / Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports

PHILADELPHIA - The Philadelphia Eagles are about to lose an unsung hero to the organization's success, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer.

Jake Rosenberg, the Eagles' Vice President of Football Administration and GM Howie Roseman's top aide when it comes to the salary cap and negotiating contracts, will depart after 12 years with the organization when his contract expires after the upcoming 2024 NFL Draft.

While speaking to the Inquirer, Rosenberg cited stagnation in his current position as the reason for the decision. His next move is not planned but Rosenberg's ultimate goal is becoming a GM and would like a path to achieve that goal.

“Over a pretty extended period of time I have just thought to myself that if it doesn’t seem like it’s in the cards for me to advance in this league, and have a chance to keep pushing and growing, that at the end of the day, what is involved to do this in terms of a life perspective, it’s not going to be worth it,” Rosenberg told The Inquirer.

Rosenberg and Roseman have been close since they attended elementary school together. In recent years Rosenberg, 48, had served as Roseman's closest confidant when it came to contract negotiations and navigating the collective bargaining agreement.

That role bleed into actual player evaluation and bridging the financial aspect of things with the both the coaching staff and player personnel department.

Bryce Johnston, the Eagles' current VP of Football Transactions and Strategic Planning, had been emerging more recently while working alongside Roseman and Rosenberg, perhaps an indication that this was not out of left field for Roseman.

In the end, the transition for Rosenberg seems to be about ambition and the feeling he reached his ceiling in Philadelphia.

“I feel a certain way about myself and what I’ve learned,” Rosenberg told the Inquirer, “and I feel like I don’t hesitate to tell people I work for the best general manager in the NFL as far as having every skill necessary to be successful in that job.

“I’ve seen team building, I’ve seen turnarounds, I’ve seen just about every single thing that would be asked of somebody to do in terms of running a team. And Howie makes all the decisions and is the decision maker, but I would love an opportunity to continue to grow, to see if I could execute in my own way.”

Johnston's responsibilities already include the planning and execution of salary cap & resource allocation strategy, player acquisition & contract negotiation/structuring so he would seem to be the next man up.

After losing former VP of Player Personnel Andy Weidl two years ago, Roseman gave out the assistant GM title for the first time to two executives: then vice president of football operations and strategy Alec Halaby, whose background was analytics, and vice president of football operations and compliance Jon Ferrari, who is the organization's rules expert.

Those decisions at least partially fueled Rosenberg's belief that his career had stalled with the Eagles, according to a team source.