The longest-tenured Philly athletes following Brandon Graham's retirement

Brandon Graham retired on Tuesday, bringing a two-time Super Bowl-winning and overall incredible 15-year Eagles career to an end .

But with that, Philadelphia's longest-tenured pro athlete across the Eagles, Flyers, Phillies, and Sixers retired, too.

So what's the new chain of seniority across Philly Sports? Here's a look at the new top-10 longest-tenured players following Graham's retirement...

1) Sean Couturier, 32 Couturier came in as an 18-year-old rookie who made his mark shutting down Evgeni Malkin in that legendary 2012 playoff series against the Penguins, steadily building a reputation as one of the NHL's best checking centers in the several seasons that followed.

Like the rest of the Flyers, however, he fell on tough times in the past few years, with repeated back issues costing him a majority of the 2021-22 season and then all of the 2022-23 campaign.

He finally made his way back last season, has consistently stayed on the ice since, and was named team captain, but is tasked now with leading the Flyers through a substantial rebuild in his 30s and on a long-term contract, big money contract that pretty much ensures that he won't be going anywhere.

2) Lane Johnson, 34 Arguably the best right tackle in the NFL, Johnson at the end of 2023 said he had a few good years of football left in him, and after the Eagles' second-ever Super Bowl title and then a contract extension signed this week , both he and the team are still fully behind that notion.

Johnson should continue to be on the focal points of a strong offensive line for the foreseeable future, and now that Graham has retired, he'll carry the torch as the longest-tenured Eagle.

Don't worry I got y'all! @brandongraham55 @fcoxx_91 @JasonKelce pic.twitter.com/7x3yLc502n 3) Aaron Nola, 31 Nola debuted on the mound and pitched through some of the Phillies' worst days in the mid-2010s, but he endured all of it and helped to see the club's breakout, finally, into a contender again through.

He's the last Phillie around from the pre-Bryce Harper days, but he's still just as vital of a piece near the top of the team's rotation.

"The Phillies go with Aaron Nola and Zack Wheeler," catcher J.T.

Realmuto said after the 2023 Wild Card series .

"When those guys are nails, we're a heck of a ball club.

That's what they've done for us these last two postseasons and that's what they've done for us for years." 4) Joel Embiid, 31 Embiid has been in Philadelphia for more than a decade now, but in the past few years especially, has seen a ton of turnover on the Sixers rosters around him.

The one constant, though, was that the rosters were always reconstructed on the fly with him in mind.

But that might be a problem now.

Embiid is on a massive contract, but repeated knee issues kept him off the court and then shut him down entirely for the remainder of this season, and pushing into his 30s, it's led to serious concern over whether he can still be the face of the franchise going forward anymore.

5) Travis Konecny, 28 A fiery and instinctive quick-skating winger who originally came in as a complementary piece to the old Claude Giroux-led core, Konecny is one of the senior leaders in a rebuilding Flyers locker room now, and signed long-term in the summer in the hopes of seeing the process fully through.

"It was just, to me there was no other option," Konecny said last July .

"If I get the opportunity to win a Stanley Cup, which I believe we can do in Philly, that just wouldn't feel any...that wouldn't feel like an accomplishment unless it was the Flyers and the team that believed in me." MORE: Brandon Graham's once-in-a-lifetime Eagles career, by the numbers 6) Jake Elliott, 30 Elliott kicked through the field goal that made for the final eight-point lead to get the Eagles to their first Super Bowl win over the Patriots seven years ago, then went a perfect 4-for-4 in last month's thrashing of the dynasty Chiefs for the second.

He's been one of the most consistent kickers in the NFL up until a suddenly rocky year this past season, but did come through perfect when it mattered the most.

The Eagles did make a notable change to the field-goal unit by bringing in Charley Hughlett as the new long snapper though, which took Rick Lovato, who had been there every year with Elliott, off the list.

7) Travis Sanheim, 28 Once part of a pipeline of young defensemen that the Flyers were trying to flesh out through the mid-late 2010s between himself, Robert Hagg, Sam Morin, Phil Myers, and Ivan Provorov Sanheim is the last one standing of the bunch.

Now, much like Konecny, he's taken on the responsibility of helping to guide a young Flyers locker room through a rebuild, while skating as the team's top defenseman.

8) Dallas Goedert, 30 Based on current buzz, and the Eagles' recent stockpiling of tight end depth , there's a chance Goedert might not be on this list for much longer.

But for now, he came in as the successor to Zach Ertz while co-existing with him for the first several years of his career.

Then, once the TE1 job was solely his, he stood out as a dangerous blocking and pass-catching threat for opposing defenses so long as he was on the field and, as Carrington Valentine came to realize, he can throw out a nasty stiff arm.

GOEDERT STIFF ARM TD FOX pic.twitter.com/v2VnSa6kJX Goedert has one year left on his contract, and there's doubt as to whether he'll play that final year as an Eagle.

But as things currently stand, he's the second-longest-tenured member of the team behind Johnson now.

9) Bryce Harper, 32 Nola is the Phillie who has been around the longest, but they're Bryce Harper's team, and that only seems to become truer the longer he's there.

He's entering Year 7 now, and the fourth since the Phillies broke out into true World Series ambitions with 2022's miracle run.

They're still chasing after a title, but if they're going to get there, they need Harper to keep going as an MVP-caliber bat at the heart of the order and as potentially Gold Glove-level first baseman in the field.

10) J.T.

Realmuto, 34 Realmuto arrived just before Harper via a trade from the Marlins in February 2019, and has been his own important part of the Phillies' lineup ever since.

Through postseason heroics, steady production at the plate, a cannon of an arm when he's throwing behind it, and calling pitches for the Phillies' top starters for years, the "Best Catcher in Baseball" label has stayed with Realmuto for a long time.

That said, he is getting older, entering the final year of his contract, and while he's still here, and still a longtime member of the team, the Phillies might be at a potential crossroads for what's next at the catcher position.

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