{"id":344943,"date":"2025-09-06T00:04:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T00:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/344943\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T00:04:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T00:04:14","slug":"eagles-sign-de-zadarius-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/344943\/","title":{"rendered":"Eagles Sign DE Za’Darius Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"

5:05pm: VanSumeran suffered a torn pateallar tendon on Thursday night against the Cowboys, per ESPN\u2019s Adam Schefter<\/a>. He will miss the rest of the season as a result.<\/p>\n

3:30pm: The Eagles have signed one of the league\u2019s top remaining free agents in edge rusher Za\u2019Darius Smith<\/a>, per a team announcement<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Smith met with the team in Philadelphia on Friday and passed a physical prior to signing a one-year deal with a maximum value of $9MM, according to FOX Sports\u2019 Jordan Schultz<\/a>. He will bring a veteran presence to an Eagles edge rushing room that was considered to be one of the team\u2019s weaknesses after losing Josh Sweat<\/a> and Brandon Graham<\/a> this offseason.<\/p>\n

Smith, who turns 33 years old on Monday, is coming off another solid season with nine sacks and nine tackles for loss in 17 games. He spent the first half of the year in Cleveland before a deadline deal sent him to Detroit. Smith remained linked with the Lions throughout the offseason, but he instead lands in Philadelphia in another savvy move by Eagles general manager\u00a0Howie Roseman.<\/p>\n

Under the CBA, veteran players receive a base salary guarantee if they are on a team\u2019s active roster in Week 1, according to OverTheCap\u2019s Jason Fitzgerald<\/a>. Veterans signed after Week 1 do not automatically receive a guaranteed salary. Since the Eagles and the Cowboys were the first two teams to finish their Week 1 game on Thursday night, they had the first chance at signing Smith to a non-guaranteed deal. Teams may not have been willing to offer Smith a strong salary before the season since it would have become guaranteed, but the Eagles were able to offer him enough upside while managing their own risk before any club got the chance.<\/p>\n

In Philadelphia, Smith will join young edge rushers Nolan Smith<\/a>,\u00a0Jalyx Hunt<\/a>,\u00a0Josh Uche,\u00a0Azeez Ojulari<\/a>, and Ogbo Okoronkwo. Ojulari and Okoronkwo were inactive against the Cowboys with Uche and practice squad elevation\u00a0Patrick Johnson<\/a> rotating in behind Nolan Smith<\/a> and Hunt, per Geoff Mosher of PhillyVoice<\/a>. With Za\u2019Darius Smith<\/a> now joining the mix, there will be even fewer snaps to go around, and the Eagles may even consider parting ways with one of their depth edge rushers.<\/p>\n

In a corresponding move to the Smith signing, the Eagles placed fullback Ben VanSumeren<\/a> on injured reserve, sidelining him for at least four games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"5:05pm: VanSumeran suffered a torn pateallar tendon on Thursday night against the Cowboys, per ESPN\u2019s Adam Schefter. He…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323129,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2068],"tags":[19682,25,7,6,242,109,2476,3571,3510],"class_list":{"0":"post-344943","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia-eagles","8":"tag-ben-vansumeren","9":"tag-eagles","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-nfl","12":"tag-philadelphia","13":"tag-philadelphia-eagles","14":"tag-philadelphiaeagles","15":"tag-transactions","16":"tag-zadarius-smith"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115154430561854885","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}