{"id":203311,"date":"2025-09-05T21:30:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T21:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/203311\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T21:30:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T21:30:10","slug":"eagles-sign-veteran-pass-rusher-zadarius-smith-to-one-year-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/203311\/","title":{"rendered":"Eagles sign veteran pass rusher Za&#8217;Darius Smith to one-year contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Eagles are adding to the pass rush one game into the season.<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia is signing veteran edge <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/za-darius-smith\/\" title=\"Za&#039;Darius Smith\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Za&#8217;Darius Smith<\/a> to a one-year deal, NFL Network Insiders Ian Rapoport and Tom Pelissero reported on Friday, per sources. The team later announced the news, placing fullback <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/ben-vansumeren\/\" title=\"Ben VanSumeren\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ben VanSumeren<\/a> on injured reserve in a corresponding move.<\/p>\n<p>Smith, 32, remained a free agent throughout the offseason as other top available pass rushers signed with teams. He <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/news\/free-agent-za-darius-smith-hopefully-i-can-get-back-to-detroit\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">expressed interest<\/a> in a return to Detroit in June during the dog days of summer. Two days into the regular season, however, the edge rusher has finally found a club in the defending champs, the sixth franchise of his 11-year career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Eagles are adding to the pass rush one game into the season. Philadelphia is signing veteran edge&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":203312,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[39],"tags":[43574,50,1232,530,1105,11578,62,67,132,68,112170],"class_list":["post-203311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-around-the-nfl","tag-news","tag-nfl","tag-no-minute","tag-philadelphia-eagles","tag-regular-season","tag-sports","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-zadarius-smith"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115153824933866137","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}