The Eagles announced a series of moves on Saturday morning to increase the experience, depth, and competition in the safety room for this upcoming season.
Philadelphia agreed to terms with a pair of veterans, Marcus Epps and J.T. Gray, on one-year deals. The team also engineered a trade, agreeing to send safety Sydney Brown to the Atlanta Falcons. In terms of compensation, the Eagles and Falcons will swap picks in the fourth and sixth rounds of the 2026 NFL Draft.
Here’s more on the moves:
Eagles agree to terms with Marcus Epps
Epps returns to Philadelphia after rejoining the team prior to the start of the 2025 regular season. Trusted and reliable, the 30-year-old Epps played in 12 games (4 starts) for the Eagles this past season, registering 19 tackles in 250 defensive snaps.
Originally a sixth-round pick of the Vikings in 2019, Epps was claimed off waivers by the Eagles in the middle of his rookie season and quickly found footing in Philadelphia. A key reserve early in his career, Epps became a full-time starter for the first time in 2022, starting all 17 games and posting a career-high 92 tackles and six passes defensed while lining up for a team-best 1,096 defensive snaps for the league’s top-ranked passing defense.
The 6-foot, 191-pound Epps parlayed that run to the Super Bowl into a free-agent deal with the Las Vegas Raiders, where he started all 17 games again in 2023 before a knee injury shortened his 2024 campaign. After being released by the Raiders at the end of Training Camp last year, Epps rejoined the Eagles’ practice squad and landed on the active roster by the end of September.
In 94 career games (49 starts), Epps has 296 tackles, 11 for loss, three interceptions, and 18 passes defensed.