{"id":532185,"date":"2026-03-19T05:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T05:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/532185\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T05:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T05:06:08","slug":"de-aj-epenesa-signing-1-year-deal-with-browns-source-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/532185\/","title":{"rendered":"DE AJ Epenesa signing 1-year deal with Browns, source says"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mar 18, 2026, 06:48 PM ET<\/p>\n

Former Buffalo Bills<\/a> defensive end AJ Epenesa<\/a> is signing a one-year deal with the Cleveland Browns<\/a> worth up to $5 million, a source told ESPN’s Adam Schefter on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Epenesa, 27, played all six of his NFL seasons with the Bills. Originally a second-round pick by Buffalo in the 2020 NFL draft, Epenesa was a reliable member of the team’s defensive line rotation over the years and a strong backup. He has played 91 games with 19 starts.<\/p>\n

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Epenesa has recorded 24 sacks in his career but had only 2.5 in 16 games in 2025 after recording 19 sacks over the previous three years.<\/p>\n

He has had success causing disruption with his arms, recording 14 batted passes and four interceptions, including two in 2025.<\/p>\n

In 14 career postseason games, Epenesa has never recorded a sack and has three quarterback hits and three batted passes.<\/p>\n

ESPN’s Alaina Getzenberg contributed to this report. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mar 18, 2026, 06:48 PM ET Former Buffalo Bills defensive end AJ Epenesa is signing a one-year deal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":532186,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-532185","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\/532185","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=532185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}