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Eagles sign center Jason Poe ahead of preseason finale

Philadelphia Eagles sign Jason Poe ahead of preseason finale

The Eagles announced two roster moves on Tuesday. They released veteran tight end C.J. Uzomah and re-signed versatile guard and center Jason Poe.

Poe will return to the Eagles after being waived by the team earlier this month on August 5.

Poe previously spent time on the 49ers’ and Jets’ practice squads before joining the Eagles late last season.

Uzomah was released after the veteran, who had been signed by Philadelphia in April, was brought in to compete for a spot in the tight end room.

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Eagles release tight end C.J. Uzomah ahead of preseason finale

The Philadelphia Eagles are releasing tight end C.J. Uzomah ahead of the preseason finale against the Minnesota Vikings

The Eagles’ 53-man roster is starting to take shape, and with the team preparing for the preseason finale against Minnesota, C.J. Uzomah has been released.

The veteran tight end was struggling to make the roster, so Philadelphia signed offensive lineman Jason Poe on Tuesday.

Uzomah was released by the Jets in March, saving the team about $5.3 million on their salary cap. The 31-year-old was scheduled to count $11.2 million against the Jets’ cap.

The veteran tight end was signed to a one-year deal back in April.

Uzomah had only eight receptions for 58 yards and a touchdown last season and was passed by Tyler Conklin on the depth chart. Uzomah didn’t have a catch after Week 10 and was placed on injured reserve on Dec. 6 with a knee injury and missed the final five games.

Uzomah was Cincinnati’s fifth-round pick in 2015 out of Auburn. He spent his first seven seasons with the Bengals. He has 192 career catches for 1,881 yards and 16 touchdowns.

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Eagles officially announce the signing of 20 players to Reserve/Futures deals

The Philadelphia Eagles officially announced the signing 20 players to reserve/futures deals ahead of the 2024 NFL offseason and free agency

The Eagles are looking towards significant changes at every level of the organization after a 32-9 loss to the Buccaneers in the wild-card round.

Owner Jeffrey Lurie will likely keep head coach Nick Sirianni.

A Wednesday press conference will be centered around the offensive and defensive coordinators and a roster severely in flux.

All eyes in Philadelphia will now turn towards the Senior Bowl and the NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis before the official start of the new league year and the free agent bonanza.

Philadelphia currently has 20 pending free agents and 38 players on the roster under contract, and these 20 players just signed reserve/futures deals courtesy of the team’s official website.

Eagles sign 20 players to Reserve/Futures deals

The Philadelphia Eagles signed 20 players to reserve/futures deals ahead of the 2024 NFL offseason and free agency

The Eagles are out of the playoffs and looking towards significant changes at every level of the organization after a 32-9 loss to the Buccaneers in the wild-card round.

Owner Jeffrey Lurie will likely keep head coach Nick Sirianni.

Still, Friday discussions and decisions will be centered around the offensive and defensive coordinators and a roster severely in flux.

All eyes in Philadelphia will now turn towards the Senior Bowl and the NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis before the official start of the new league year and the free agent bonanza.

Philadelphia currently has 20 pending free agents and 38 players on the roster under contract, and these 20 players just signed reserve/futures deals courtesy of NFL Communications.

Dolphins worked out 7 free agents on Tuesday

Miami had multiple free agents in for workouts on Tuesday.

The Miami Dolphins, after losing to the Baltimore Ravens on Sunday, returned to South Florida where they held tryouts for seven different free agents on Tuesday.

While general manager Chris Grier hasn’t pulled the trigger on any of them yet, it wouldn’t be surprising to see the team ink one of them to a deal in the coming days or after the season ends on a futures/reserve contract.

Here’s a quick look at all seven players the Dolphins hosted:

Browns host Joe Flacco, Daylen Baldwin, 9 others for workout on Friday

The Browns hosted 11 for a workout today

The news out of Berea today as the Cleveland Browns hunt for another quarterback to stick on their roster was that veteran gunslinger Joe Flacco was in town for a workout. According to Aaron Wilson, however, Flacco was not the only player to work out today in Berea. Former Cleveland wide receiver Daylen Baldwin returned to try out for the Browns, but he and Flacco were just two among 11 the team hosted as they prepare for the Pittsburgh Steelers this week.

With Deshaun Watson sidelined for the rest of the season, the Browns now have just fifth round rookie Dorian Thompson-Robinson and P.J. Walker as the two quarterbacks on their roster. They are expected to add another to their roster soon.

Here are all 11 players that found their way into the facility as the team looks to potentially shake up their practice squad and give Flacco some targets to throw to during his workout.

49ers UDFA was asked by high school coaches not to play

It’s hard to begin a football career in a worse place than #49ers UDFA OL Jason Poe did.

It was something of a miracle that offensive lineman Jason Poe even landed a UDFA deal with the 49ers. His college, Mercer has zero players in the NFL. Their last alum to play in the NFL was Wesley Duke in 2005, and he only played basketball for the school since they didn’t have a football program then.

Poe’s miracle began well before that though, and his climb from square one to the NFL was terrifically detailed by Eric Branch of the San Francisco Chronicle.

While plenty of players have stories of overcoming adversity to make it to the NFL, Poe’s story begins somewhere just south of rock bottom.

“Jason got to us as a ninth-grader at Fitzgerald and was literally one of the worst football players that I’ve ever seen,” Poe’s high school coach Jason Strickland told Branch. “It was just horrendous, horrendous. And we thought the kid was really going to wind up getting hurt. We tried to convince him to just be a manager because he was so bad. We thought he’d be more valuable to us as a manager. But he wanted to play. And he stuck it out.”

There was plenty more adversity between Poe being told not to play as a freshman and him signing with San Francisco, but what stands in front of him may just be his biggest obstacle yet.

Poe joins a 49ers club that is ready to contend for a Super Bowl. They have open starting jobs on the offensive line, but they also have a slew of draft picks and last year’s starting right guard Daniel Brunskill ahead of him on the depth chart.

On top of that, he may need to change positions to either center or fullback to stick around with the club.

The good news for the obstacle-smashing offensive lineman is he’s been through the mud on and off the field. He’s done nothing but overcome odds since his freshman year of high school, and the 49ers will give him plenty of doors to kick down whether it’s at guard, center or as an eventual replacement for fullback Kyle Juszczyk.

It’s not going to be easy for Poe to beat the odds and make the 49ers’ roster, but it should surprise exactly nobody if he’s somehow making an impact in the next couple seasons.

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