A few weeks back, when reporters spoke with Eagles vice president Howie Roseman at the NFL Scouting combine about the team’s pending free agents, they expected to hear how important Nigel Bradham was to the defense, how hard Roseman intended to fight to retain the Birds’ top-tackling linebacker over the last two seasons.
Roseman agreed that day that “Nigel is a tremendous player,” but he didn’t say a word about trying to bring him back. In fact, Roseman closed his answer to the question about Bradham with: “We’re not going to just be an empty vault for any of our players right now.