{"id":520594,"date":"2026-03-13T05:47:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T05:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/520594\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T05:47:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T05:47:10","slug":"free-agent-arnold-ebiketie-reaches-1-year-deal-with-eagles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/520594\/","title":{"rendered":"Free agent Arnold Ebiketie reaches 1-year deal with Eagles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mar 12, 2026, 10:58 PM ET<\/p>\n

Free agent linebacker Arnold Ebiketie<\/a> is signing a one-year deal worth a maximum of $7.3 million with the Philadelphia Eagles<\/a>, his agent, Damarius Bilbo of Klutch Sports, told ESPN’s Adam Schefter on Thursday night.<\/p>\n

The deal includes $4.3 million fully guaranteed.<\/p>\n

Ebiketie will join an Eagles team that lost edge rusher Jaelan Phillips<\/a> to the Carolina Panthers<\/a> earlier in free agency.<\/p>\n

Ebiketie, 27, had a career-low two sacks in 2025 with the Falcons<\/a>, but that was more because he was part of a deeper rotation rather than the centerpiece of Atlanta’s pass rush. The Cameroon-born player was 10th in the league in quarterback pressure rate (16.4%) among players with at least 150 pass-rush snaps, according to Next Gen Stats. That figure was a team high for Atlanta edge rushers.<\/p>\n

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In 2024, Ebiketie led the Falcons with six sacks, before the team drafted Jalon Walker<\/a> and James Pearce Jr<\/a>. and signed Leonard Floyd<\/a> in 2025. Under defensive coordinator Jeff Ulbrich, the Falcons had a franchise-record 57 sacks last season. Ebiketie excelled as a complementary player.<\/p>\n

Ebiketie also had six sacks in 2023 and 2.5 as a rookie in 2022.<\/p>\n

The Falcons drafted Ebiketie in the second round in 2022 out of Penn State. He also played four seasons at Temple.<\/p>\n

Ebiketie’s family moved to Maryland from Cameroon when Ebiketie was 13 years old. He did not play football until high school, preferring soccer in his home country.<\/p>\n

ESPN’s Marc Raimondi contributed to this report. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mar 12, 2026, 10:58 PM ET Free agent linebacker Arnold Ebiketie is signing a one-year deal worth a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":520595,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-520594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}