Tariq Castro-Fields

Career Stats

Year	Team	GP	INT	PD	Tkl
Career		8	—	—	4
2025		2	0	2	1
2024		2	—	—	—
2023		8	0

Current Contract

Contract Value Index (CVI)

Earning a C+ Contract Value Index, Tariq Castro-Fields' rookie-scale pact reflects how Philadelphia valued the position market at the sixth-round tier in 2022. At $1.145M AAV, this deal sits squarely in the replacement-level cornerback range — a practice squad salary that carries minimal roster risk and zero urgency. Castro-Fields logged just one tackle across two games in the 2025 season, production that aligns cleanly with his D+ performance grade and the media consensus that he remains a developmental depth piece with no clear path to 53-man relevance. As a fourth-year player now at 27 years old, Castro-Fields is approaching the window where career trajectory typically crystallizes; the recent waiver and re-signing cycle only underscores that Philadelphia views him as interchangeable depth rather than a foundational cornerback bet. The CVI grade reflects exactly that calculus — a contract that costs almost nothing relative to cap or prospect capital, and therefore carries no downside even if he never produces at the professional level. Unless Castro-Fields forces a narrative shift during training camp, this remains what the media has already framed it as: routine practice squad housekeeping in an Eagles offseason defined by low-profile roster churn rather than meaningful upgrades.

Contracts in the Same Value Band

Other same-position deals the Contract Value Index also places in the C band — a quick read on where Tariq's contract sits relative to comparable money.

Performance Analysis8/16 Games

Tariq Castro-Fields has played 8 career games, which is below the 16-game minimum required for a performance grade. Once Tariq reaches 16 career games, the system will automatically generate a performance grade based on position-specific statistics.

Fan Sentiment

Tariq Castro-Fields is generating almost no meaningful buzz among Eagles fans or media, and the D- sentiment grade reflects exactly that — this is a signing that barely registered on the radar outside of Penn State alumni circles. The narrative across multiple outlets is uniform and unambiguous: this is routine practice squad housekeeping, not a cornerback acquisition that moves the competitive needle, with coverage consistently framing it as a revolving-door move rather than any kind of genuine roster upgrade. That framing aligns cleanly with his D+ performance grade — a fourth-year, sixth-round product who logged just one tackle across two games in the 2025 season, producing at a replacement-level clip that does nothing to complicate the media's low-ceiling read on him. Adding further weight to the skepticism, Castro-Fields has already been waived by Philadelphia once before, a detail that headlines have not let go unnoticed and that makes any talk of a 53-man promotion feel largely theoretical. The Eagles' recent roster activity — a cluster of low-profile signings and releases in early May — paints a picture of broad offseason housekeeping rather than targeted upgrades, which only reinforces the sense that Castro-Fields is one interchangeable piece among many cycling through the building. The bottom line is that unless he forces his way into conversations during training camp with a standout performance, the narrative surrounding him will remain exactly what it is right now: a depth move that Philadelphia's fanbase and media have already moved past.