" Max Jean-Gilles will likely be back for another season. Alex Smith won't.

Both Eagles are slated to become restricted free agents on March 5, but the team only wants Jean-Gilles back, agent Drew Rosenhaus, who represents both, confirmed to The News Journal / Wing Tips on Friday .

Smith, who spent one season with the team, won't be offered a tender and is free to sign anywhere. Jean-Gilles will make $1.01 million next season unless another team wants to sign him and pony up a fourth-round pick in return.

Smith's departure leaves the Eagles with just Cornelius Ingram and Martin Rucker behind Brent Celek - two guys the team really likes, but two guys who have played exactly zero NFL snaps and belong to the new wave of tight ends groomed from college spread offenses in which blocking isn't part of the job demand.

Given that Celek is an adequate blocker, the Eagles don't have any pure blocking tight ends, and since pass protection has been problematic in big games - like, in consecutive losses to Dallas to end the season - the Eagles might be using this week's combine to scout some beefier bodies.

As for the Eagles' other restricted free agents, including All Pro fullback Leonard Weaver, the team isn't discussing tenders. Earlier on Friday, general manager Howie Roseman said the Eagles would announce them next week, naturally.

Joining Weaver as restricted free agents are cornerback Ellis Hobbs , center Nick Cole , linebackers Omar Gaither and Chris Gocong, and wide receiver Jason Avant . All of them were supposed to become unrestricted free agents but haven't accrued the required six years without a new Collective Bargaining Agreement. Linebacker Akeem Jordan and punter Sav Rocca are restricted free agents who would have been restricted regardless.

Other tidbits from Day 2 of the combine:

* Brian Westbrook's agent, Todd France , said he wasn't surprised by Westbrook's release and couldn't say definitively that Westbrook would have accepted a pay cut if the organization had offered one. Earlier this week, Westbrook said he definitely would have considered a lower salary to stay with the team and was somewhat surprised that they didn't give him that opportunity.

Anyway, teams have inquired about signing Westbrook, France said, though he declined to give names.

* Tim Tebow's much-dissected change in throwing motion isn't much of a change at all. Tebow said he's holding the ball higher but taking the looping motion away from his delivery. He called it "more like a tweak" than a complete overhaul. "My release point of where I'm throwing the ball is not any different at all," he said. Tebow, who's been a favorite target of the draftniks, isn't throwing the combine."