The Philadelphia Eagles have released defensive back James Bradberry with one season remaining on a three-year, $38 million contract, the NFL team announced on Wednesday.

In a bookkeeping maneuver, Philadelphia is releasing Bradberry with a post-June 1 designation.

Cutting Bradberry with a post-June 1 designation will subtract $2.1 million from the Eagles’ salary-cap obligations for 2025 while leaving behind $3.095 million in dead money. Without the post-June 1 designation, Bradberry’s release would leave $10.813 million on the books for Philadelphia’s 2025 salary cap.

Bradberry missed the 2024 season after sustaining an Achilles injury at practice on Aug. 28. He went on injured reserve the next day, so he missed playing in the Eagles’ second Super Bowl in three seasons.

Bradberry started at cornerback in Philadelphia’s 38-35 loss to the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl LVII on Feb. 12, 2023. The Eagles defeated Kansas City 40-22 in Super Bowl LIX on Feb. 9.

“I’m going to get a ring,” Bradberry said after the season, “and I can always say I’m a Super Bowl champion, so I’m a part of it.”

Bradberry signed his current contract after making second-team All-Pro for the 2022 season.

An All-State selection at Pleasant Grove High School in 2010, Bradberry became an immediate starter with the Carolina Panthers after they selected him from Samford in the second round of the 2016 NFL Draft.

After four seasons, he left Carolina in free agency for a three-year, $43.5 million contract with the New York Giants.

A Pro Bowl selection in his first season with the Giants, Bradberry never made it to the third season of his contract. New York released Bradberry in May 2022 to cut $10.1 million off its salary-cap obligations.

Philadelphia quickly signed Bradberry to a one-year, $7.25 million contract, and he helped the Eagles lead the NFL in passing defense and reach the Super Bowl in 2022.

In 125 NFL regular-season games, with 124 starts, Bradberry has 19 interceptions, 112 passes defended, 478 tackles, four forced fumbles and four fumble recoveries.

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Mark Inabinett is a sports reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on X at @AMarkG1.