The Philadelphia Eagles are signing free agent security Terrell Edmunds to a one-year contract, in accordance with NFL insider Ian Rapoport.
The Birds have been in want of security assist after dropping 2022 starters C.J. Gardner-Johnson and Marcus Epps in free company.
Edmunds, who turned 26 in January, brings expertise to the desk. The No. 28 total decide within the 2018 NFL Draft logged 75 begins in 79 video games performed for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Edmunds notched 410 complete tackles, 26 passes defensed, 5 interceptions, 5 sacks, and 0 pressured fumbles throughout that five-year span. He notably overlapped with Eagles director of scouting Brandon Hunt, who was employed away from Pittsburgh final yr.
Edmunds didn’t precisely reside as much as first-round expectations in Pittsburgh; the Steelers declined to choose up his fifth-year choice for the 2022 season. However they ended up bringing him again on a one-year deal days earlier than final yr’s NFL Draft.
There was some thought that Edmunds would return to the Steelers on one other one-year deal in 2023. However he’s headed east to the opposite facet of the Keystone State. Right here’s some fast perception on him from SB Nation’s Steelers neighborhood, Behind The Metal Curtain:
Edmunds, who was the Steelers high draft decide in 2018, has had a really regular profession in Pittsburgh. Whereas he hasn’t even had the knack for the splash play, in any capability, which many affiliate with a primary spherical decide, he completely has been extraordinarily efficient and dependable throughout his tenure with the crew.
The Eagles aren’t bringing in Edmunds with the expectation that he’ll be a Professional Bowler for them. As a substitute, he figures to carry competency to the place as a stop-gap choice with potential to be a long-term fixture if he performs effectively. Not completely dissimilar to the Nicholas Morrow signing the Birds made earlier this week.
Edmunds ranked thirty eighth out of 93 safeties graded by Professional Soccer Focus final season (minimal 20% snaps). That’s truly 13 spots larger than the place the aforementioned CJGJ completed.
The plurality of Edmunds’ snaps every season have come enjoying as a linebacker. He’s additionally been used generally used as a slot defender and a free security. Edmunds has often performed on particular groups as effectively.
This signing means the Eagles now have 5 safeties underneath contract: Edmunds, Reed Blankenship, Okay’Von Wallace, Justin Evans, and Andre Chachere. The crew might look so as to add extra expertise at this place by way of the 2023 NFL Draft. For now, Edmunds and Blankenship are the front-runners to begin.
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