Joe Douglas returning to Eagles after midseason Jets firing

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 returning to the Eagles in a senior scouting role, according to multiple reports.Douglas was the Eagles vice president of player personnel from 2016-19, until he was hired to lead the Jets.The Eagles and Jets essentially flipped pass-rushers during the 2024 offseason — and no one wound up happy.After the Eagles signed Bryce Huff away from the Jets during free agency, Douglas turned around and traded a 2026 third-round pick to Roseman for the disgruntled Haason Reddick.Huff only had 2.5 sacks in 12 games, lost his starting job and was a healthy scratch in the Super Bowl.But that sounds like optimal production compared to what Reddick gave the Jets when he held out for the first seven games of the season — after misleading Douglas about his demands for a new contract — and then contributed one sack in 10 games before leaving for 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.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....