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Eagles can erase their remaining salary cap debt with a few simple moves

It’s been a chaotic week for the Philadelphia Eagles. Carson Wentz is in Indianapolis, DeSean Jackson has been released, and Alshon Jeffery has been informed that his future is not in the City of Brotherly Love. Aside from the start of a new era, there is a method behind the madness. As things stand, the Eagles are still $37M over the salary cap (excluding Jeffery’s release). Here are a string of moves they can make that will entirely erase their remaining debt.

The obvious choice

The Eagles approached both Alshon Jeffery and Malik Jackson a few weeks ago and were able to restructure both of their contracts in order to move on from them easier.