{"id":316561,"date":"2025-10-19T18:04:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T18:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/316561\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T18:04:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T18:04:15","slug":"former-philadelphia-eagle-brandon-graham-considering-coming-out-of-retirement-to-help-team-reports-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/316561\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Philadelphia Eagle Brandon Graham considering coming out of retirement to help team, reports say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After hanging up his cleats and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/brandon-graham-retire-rumors-eagles\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">retiring from the NFL in March<\/a>, new reports say Philadelphia <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/brandon-graham-philadelphia-eagles-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Eagles legend Brandon Graham<\/a> is considering coming out of retirement to help the Birds&#8217; struggling pass rush, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nfl\/news\/eagles-legend-brandon-graham-considering-coming-out-of-retirement-to-boost-phillys-struggling-pass-rush\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CBS Sports.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Graham&#8217;s possible return comes just days after former defensive end\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/philadelphia-eagles-zadarius-smith-retires\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Za&#8217;Darius Smith unexpectedly announced his retirement over social media<\/a>. Graham was the longest tenured player in Eagles history after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/eagles-brandon-graham-retirement-press-conference\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">15 seasons with Philadelphia<\/a>. The fan-favorite retired after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/nfl-mvp-super-bowl-jalen-hurts-eagles\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">winning Super Bowl LIX<\/a> with the Eagles in February 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This game has changed my life, but more importantly, this city has changed my life,&#8221; Graham said during his retirement press conference in March. &#8220;It has given me a purpose far beyond football. It has shown me what it means to be a leader, to be a friend, to be a man of faith, and to have integrity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The former football star is now considering taking that leadership role back to South Philly to help with the team&#8217;s pass rushing, CBS Sports said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>BG and the Birds could finalize a contract later this week, CBS Sports reported, citing ESPN&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AdamSchefter\/status\/1979933540931256444\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Adam Schefter<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Beyond losing Graham during the offseason, Philadelphia also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/josh-sweat-contract-cardinals-eagles-free-agency\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">lost Josh Sweat<\/a>, who signed with the Arizona Cardinals, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/boston\/news\/milton-williams-new-england-patriots-contract-super-bowl-nfl\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Milton Williams<\/a>, who signed with the New England Patriots, in free agency.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>This is a developing story and will be updated.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After hanging up his cleats and\u00a0retiring from the NFL in March, new reports say Philadelphia Eagles legend Brandon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":316562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,9338,1448,2830,1311,1105,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-316561","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-national-football-league","10":"tag-pa","11":"tag-pennsylvania","12":"tag-philadelphia","13":"tag-philadelphia-eagles","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115402156575213011","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}