Former Philadelphia Eagles defensive end Bryce Huff spoke about his disastrous 2025 season with the team on a recent podcast, saying he knew by training camp that he "wasn't a fit."
"If I'm being one hundred percent honest with you, I wanted a trade fairly early on, just cause of how things went in Philly," Huff said recently on a San Francisco 49ers podcast. "I knew pretty early on that it wasn't a fit. Being a signing of that magnitude, like being undrafted and going and getting that contract and being in Philly, the expectations are at an all-time high. So I knew a trade wasn't going to happen during the season, but I just kind of talked to my agent about it. I was like, 'Yeah when it is all said and done I might need to step, just to be able to put myself in the best position to ball out and have a fruitful career.'
"And there’s a plethora of things that went down, I don’t want to get into specifics. Being in the league for five years, I kind of knew what it felt like for me to be—what's the word—to be in a good situation. I was like yeah, I got to look out for myself and do what I think was best. So, I kind of knew where it was headed like fairly early on into the season, even training camp if I’m being honest with you."
Huff, 27, signed a 3-year deal worth $51.1 million with Philadelphia last offseason, one of Howie Roseman's rare whiffs.
Huff ended up playing just 39.1-percent of snaps across 12 games for defensive coordinator Vic Fangio and the eventual Super Bowl champion Eagles, recording 2.5 sacks after a 10.0 sack 2023 season with the New York Jets.
Philadelphia traded Huff to the 49ers on June 2nd for a conditional fifth round draft pick.