Brown signed an one-year handle Philadelphia in March that would pay him a base income of $910,000 and consisted of $550,000 in assurances. He remained in the mix to complete for a beginning area and was at a minimum anticipated to be a special-teams factor.
The Eagles already had the least amount of salary-cap dollars dedicated to the linebacker position for 2020 ($5.9 million), according to Spotrac. The Eagles get about $900,000 in cap relief as a result of Brown retiring.
The staying linebackers are T.J. Edwards, Nate Gerry, Davion Taylor, Duke Riley, Alex Singleton, Shaun Bradley and Dante Olson, among the most unheralded groups in the NFL.
PHILADELPHIA– Philadelphia Eagles linebacker Jatavis Brown, a 26-year-old free-agent pickup this offseason, has actually remarkably retired from the video game.
The Eagles put Brown on the reserve/retired list Sunday. The word internally was he simply felt it was time for him to step away.
