One yr after he got the bad end of a trade with Eagles general manager Howie Roseman, Joe Douglas is re-joining his former boss.
Douglas, the previous Jets general manager, is returning to the Eagles in a senior scouting role, in keeping with multiple reports. Douglas was the Eagles vp of player personnel from 2016-19, until he was hired to steer the Jets.
The Eagles and Jets essentially flipped pass-rushers through the 2024 offseason — and nobody wound up comfortable.
After the Eagles signed Bryce Huff away from the Jets during free agency, Douglas turned around and traded a 2026 third-round pick to Roseman for the disgruntled Haason Reddick.
Huff only had 2.5 sacks in 12 games, lost his starting job and was a healthy scratch within the Super Bowl.
But that seems like optimal production in comparison with what Reddick gave the Jets when he held out for the primary seven games of the season — after misleading Douglas about his demands for a brand new contract — after which contributed one sack in 10 games before leaving for the Buccaneers as a free agent.
Douglas helped construct a Super Bowl-winning roster in 2017 with hits throughout free agency and trades. That notch on his résumé helped him a number of years later to land the Jets job, where he was first partnered with head coach Adam Gase after which hired Robert Saleh to switch Gase.
The Jets went 32-68 and failed to achieve the playoffs during Douglas’ six-year tenure. His gold star is the 2022 draft class, when he landed Sauce Gardner, Garrett Wilson, Jermaine Johnson and Breece Hall with top-34 picks.
Douglas was fired last November — after Saleh already had been let go — near the tip of the ultimate yr of his contract. A number of weeks later, he was shoulder-to-shoulder with Roseman at an Eagles home game — a precursor of what was to return.
The Philadelphia Inquirer first reported Douglas’ recent job.
