{"id":308601,"date":"2026-10-17T08:06:24","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T08:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/308601\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T08:06:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T08:06:24","slug":"eagles-sign-qb-joe-milton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/308601\/","title":{"rendered":"Eagles sign QB Joe Milton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Eagles announced on Friday that the team has signed quarterback Joe Milton from the Dallas Cowboys&#8217; practice squad.<\/p>\n<p>A sixth-round pick by the Patriots in 2024, Milton was heralded for his arm strength and athleticism as a prospect out of Tennessee. The 6-foot-5 quarterback started his college career at Michigan before transferring to Tennessee in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>He helped guide the Volunteers to the Orange Bowl after stepping in for an injured Hendon Hooker in 2022, defeating No. 7 Clemson and earning the game&#8217;s MVP honors. Through six college seasons, Milton played in 43 games (21 starts), threw for 4,303 yards, 20 touchdowns, five interceptions, and recorded 11 rushing touchdowns.<\/p>\n<p>Milton made his NFL regular-season debut in Week 18 of his rookie season, leading the Patriots to a 23-16 win over the Bills with 257 yards and two touchdowns. The Dallas Cowboys traded for Milton that offseason to serve as Dak Prescott&#8217;s backup for 2025. The dual-threat quarterback was waived on August 31, 2026, as part of the Cowboys&#8217; final roster cuts and was signed to the team&#8217;s practice squad. &#8211; Written by Caroline Connor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Eagles announced on Friday that the team has signed quarterback Joe Milton from the Dallas Cowboys&#8217; practice&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308602,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[19777,78109,6108,36940,1418,69,4538,71,70],"class_list":["post-308601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-gameday","tag-go-birds","tag-jalen-hurts","tag-jeffrey-lurie","tag-nfl","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-eagles","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308601","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=308601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}