{"id":218674,"date":"2026-06-14T01:44:39","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T01:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/218674\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T01:44:39","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T01:44:39","slug":"eagles-sign-a-j-epenesa-amid-post-minicamp-roster-swap-nbc-sports-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/218674\/","title":{"rendered":"Eagles sign A.J. Epenesa amid post-minicamp roster swap \u2013 NBC Sports Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Eagles on Wednesday signed veteran A.J. Epenesa to bolster their edge rusher depth going into training camp next month.<\/p>\n

Epenesa, 27, was drafted in the second round of the 2020 NFL Draft out of Iowa. He was selected at pick No. 54, just one spot after the Eagles selected Jalen Hurts.<\/p>\n

In addition to adding Epenesa, the Eagles also signed veteran guard Michael Jordan, who was with the Eagles earlier this offseason on a tryout. To make those two roster spots, the Eagles waived LB Chandler Martin and LB Isiah King.<\/p>\n

The Eagles finished their two-day mandatory minicamp on Wednesday, so we won\u2019t get to see Epenesa (6-6, 280) with the team until training camp in late July at the earliest. The team is listing him as a defensive end.<\/p>\n

Earlier this offseason, Epenesa had reportedly agreed to terms of a one-year deal with the Browns worth up to $5 million but the Browns backed out after his physical, per ESPN<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In his six NFL seasons (all with the Bills), Epenesa has been a solid rotational edge rusher. He has played in 91 games with 19 starts and has 24 total sacks and 135 combined tackles to go along with 4 interceptions, 5 forced fumbles and 21 pass breakups.\u00a0<\/p>\n

From 2022-2024, Epenesa had 6 1\/2, 6 1\/2 and 6 sacks. He had 2 1\/2 sacks in 16 games with the Bills last year while playing 47% of their defensive snaps.<\/p>\n

Epenesa will join an edge rusher room that already includes Jonathan Greenard, Nolan Smith, Jalyx Hunt, Arnold Ebiketie, Joe Tryon-Shoyinka, Keyshawn James-Newby, Joshua Weru and Jose Ramirez. Tryon-Shoyinka was absent from the mandatory camp this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Eagles on Wednesday signed veteran A.J. Epenesa to bolster their edge rusher depth going into training camp…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218675,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[8018,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-218674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-eagles-news","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}