Eagles releasing 6-time Pro Bowl corner Darius Slay to create cap space: report

The Philadelphia Eagles are already making large offseason moves aft winning Super Bowl LIX, but they aren’t successful the additions section conscionable yet. 

Instead, seasoned cornerback Darius Slay is getting released aft 5 seasons with the organization. 

Slay, a six-time Pro Bowl cornerback, volition beryllium a post-June 1 cut, which saves the Eagles $4.3 cardinal against their wage headdress to marque different moves, per ESPN’s Adam Schefter. 

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Philadelphia Eagles cornerback Darius Slay Jr. speaks with the media during a property league astatine Hilton New Orleans Riverside. (Bill Streicher-Imagn Images)

The Eagles’ roster is stacked, but GM Howie Roseman has been known to marque immoderate large splashes successful caller offseasons, and creating abstraction connected his headdress is important successful doing so. One mustn’t hide each NFL Draft people besides requires a bully magnitude of headdress space. 

The Eagles person conscionable implicit $20 cardinal heading into this month, and cardinal players similar linebacker Zach Baun, antiaircraft extremity Josh Sweat and violative defender Mekhi Becton are acceptable for escaped agency. 

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"As the headdress gets tighter, arsenic each our costly players commencement becoming expensive, you person to spell with young players," Roseman said this past month, per ESPN. 

So, Slay, 34, is simply a casualty contempt his antiaircraft prowess successful the secondary. The Eagles, though, could spend to fto him spell considering their rookie tandem of Quinyon Mitchell and Cooper DeJean played a captious relation successful winning the Lombardi Trophy. They task to beryllium the team’s apical cornerbacks for years to travel connected their rookie deals. 

Philadelphia Eagles cornerback Darius Slay reacts aft breaking up a walk play against the Buffalo Bills astatine Lincoln Financial Field. (Bill Streicher-USA Today Sports)

Slay, however, was a antiaircraft skipper for this Eagles locker room, playing a ample relation successful elder enactment arsenic good arsenic helping the squad beryllium the No. 1 defence successful the walk crippled past season. 

In 14 games, Slay had 13 passes defended, 49 tackles, 1 forced fumble, arsenic good arsenic a fumble recovery. 

According to CBS Sports, Slay wants to play 1 much year, and that usually means going to a contender to vie for different Super Bowl ring. 

One squad to look retired for is the Detroit Lions, the squad Slay started his vocation with. They request cornerback help, and they’re expected to look for it successful each sectors this offseason, including escaped agency, wherever Slay is headed. 

Philadelphia Eagles cornerback Darius Slay Jr. against the Kansas City Chiefs during Super Bowl LIX astatine Caesars Superdome. (Mark J. Rebilas-Imagn Images)

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Slay totaled 347 tackles and 104 passes defended implicit 7 seasons with the Lions. From 2017-19, helium made 3 consecutive Pro Bowls and was named archetypal squad All-Pro successful 2017 aft starring the league with 8 interceptions and 26 passes defended. 

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