{"id":27260,"date":"2025-07-28T10:39:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T10:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/27260\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T10:39:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T10:39:08","slug":"49ers-signing-corner-eli-apple-to-one-year-contract-nbc-sports-bay-area-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/27260\/","title":{"rendered":"49ers signing corner Eli Apple to one-year contract \u2013 NBC Sports Bay Area &#038; California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 49ers reportedly have added cornerback depth following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsbayarea.com\/nfl\/san-francisco-49ers\/training-camp-renardo-green-injury-brock-purdy\/1863831\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Renardo Green\u2019s hamstring injury<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/A\/ApplEl00.htm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eli Apple<\/a> is signing a one-year contract with San Francisco, the veteran cornerback\u2019s agent Kevin Conner told ESPN\u2019s Adam Schefter on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Veteran cornerback Eli Apple is signing a one-year deal with the 49ers, per Kevin Conner at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UniSportsMgmt?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@UniSportsMgmt<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fN9DD4pQwC\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/fN9DD4pQwC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdamSchefter\/status\/1949595101824483569?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">July 27, 2025<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old, who has been on six teams throughout his nine-year NFL career, was selected with the No. 10 pick in the 2016 NFL Draft by the New York Giants.<\/p>\n<p>Last October, Apple signed with the Los Angeles Chargers\u2019 practice squad and was promoted to the active roster in November. However, after suffering a hamstring injury, the veteran played in only four games in the 2024 season.<\/p>\n<p>With no return timeline set for second-year corner Green, the veteran is slated to get a chance leading up to preseason.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Apple has played 102 career games with 82 starts, recording six career interceptions with 61 passes defensed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/49ers-talk-with-matt-maiocco.simplecast.com\/episodes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Download and follow the 49ers Talk Podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 49ers reportedly have added cornerback depth following Renardo Green\u2019s hamstring injury.\u00a0 Eli Apple is signing a one-year&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27261,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[26437,64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-27260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-49ers-rumors","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}