{"id":862642,"date":"2026-04-09T22:45:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T22:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/862642\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T22:45:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T22:45:20","slug":"source-49ers-ex-bengals-de-cam-sample-reach-one-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/862642\/","title":{"rendered":"Source: 49ers, ex-Bengals DE Cam Sample reach one-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ESPN<\/p>\n

Thursday, April 9, 2026 10:40PM<\/p>\n

The San Francisco 49ers<\/a> have agreed to a one-year contract with free agent defensive end Cam Sample<\/a>, a source told NFL Network on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Sample has been a versatile depth player on Cincinnati’s defensive line in his four seasons with the Bengals<\/a>. Sample, a 2021 fourth-round draft pick out of Tulane, has been used as an interior defensive lineman and an edge rusher throughout his career.<\/p>\n

In 2025, Sample made 14 appearances and started in two of them. He had two sacks and 17 total tackles in those games. It was a comeback season for the 26-year-old who missed all of the 2024 season with an Achilles injury.<\/p>\n

He has seven sacks and 85 tackles in his four seasons.<\/p>\n

ESPN’s Ben Baby contributed to this report. <\/p>\n

Copyright \u00a9 2026 ESPN Internet Ventures. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thursday, April 9, 2026 10:40PM The San Francisco 49ers have agreed to a one-year contract with free agent…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":862643,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2053],"tags":[117332,228,227,256,2296,12,7,88,6,117331,252],"class_list":{"0":"post-862642","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cincinnati-bengals","8":"tag-117332","9":"tag-bengals","10":"tag-cincinnati","11":"tag-cincinnati-bengals","12":"tag-cincinnatibengals","13":"tag-espn","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-sample-cam","18":"tag-san-francisco-49ers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116377180398033871","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862642","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=862642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/862643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=862642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=862642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=862642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}