Joe Douglas returning to Eagles after midseason Jets firing
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One year 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 former Jets general manager, is making a comeback to the Eagles in a senior scouting position, as per various reports. He had previously served as the Eagles vice president of player personnel from 2016-19 before taking on the role with the Jets.

The Eagles and Jets essentially flipped pass-rushers during the 2024 offseason — and no one wound up happy.


Jets owner Woody Johnson (l.) with former Jets GM Joe Douglas (r.) in 2023.
Jets owner Woody Johnson (l.) with former Jets GM Joe Douglas (r.) in 2023. Charles Wenzelberg/New York Post

During free agency, the Eagles acquired Bryce Huff from the Jets. In return, Douglas traded a 2026 third-round pick to Roseman for the discontented Haason Reddick.

Huff only had 2.5 sacks in 12 games, lost his starting job and was a healthy scratch in the Super Bowl.

However, this trade appears favorable when compared to Reddick’s performance with the Jets. Reddick held out for the first seven games of the season, misguiding Douglas about his contract demands. He then only managed one sack in 10 games before departing to the Buccaneers as a free agent.

Douglas helped build a Super Bowl-winning roster in 2017 with hits throughout free agency and trades. That notch on his résumé helped him a few years later to land the Jets job, where he was first partnered with head coach Adam Gase and then hired Robert Saleh to replace Gase.


Joe Douglas with the Eagles in 2018.
Joe Douglas with the Eagles in 2018. Getty Images

The Jets went 32-68 and failed to reach 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 end of the final year of his contract. A few weeks later, he was shoulder-to-shoulder with Roseman at an Eagles home game — a precursor of what was to come.

The Philadelphia Inquirer first reported Douglas’ new job.

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