Twelve touchdowns walked out the door with Goedert, and the Eagles are still figuring out who catches them now

Dallas Goedert is out, and the number that keeps coming up is 12 — his touchdown catches from last season, the most of any Eagle and a figure that made him the offense's most reliable finisher inside the 20. That production doesn't just transfer. Zach Ertz is active and will see the field, and I wrote last week about the weight the Eagles are placing on him in that role. E.J. Jenkins is the depth chart's top tight end right now, which tells you something about how thin this got, fast.

Ertz is a known quantity, which cuts both ways. He's a smart route runner who has made a career of finding soft spots in zone coverage, but he hasn't been a consistent red-zone threat in some time. Jenkins is less proven at this level. Between the two of them, the Eagles are asking a patchwork tight end room to absorb a role that Goedert had spent years building into something specific and hard to replicate.

The broader context here is that this offense has been shedding pieces since before Week 1 — A.J. Brown gone in the offseason, the pass rush thin, and now the red-zone anchor on IR. Jalen Hurts and DeVonta Smith are doing the work of holding things together. My read is that the next few weeks will tell us whether this team can manufacture touchdowns through scheme and Hurts' legs, or whether losing Goedert's 12 scores is simply a hole too wide to paper over.