Darren Sproles has agreed to return to the Eagles and play a 14th NFL season. The elusive running back agreed to terms with the defending Super Bowl champions, Howie Roseman announced Saturday. It’s a one-year deal with a total guarantee of $1MM, Tom Pelissero of NFL.com tweets. The pact can be worth up to $1.415M with $1.433M in likely to be earned incentives.
The Eagles had been in communication with Sproles for a while now, and he’ll be part of Philadelphia’s backfield picture again this season — which will be his fifth in eastern Pennsylvania.
Rumored to be on the lookout for running backs in this year’s draft, the Eagles used five picks on other positions last week. Sproles being back in the fold figures to provide a boost to the backfield, which lost LeGarrette Blount but still houses Jay Ajayi and Corey Clement. Philly also has Donnel Pumphrey and Wendell Smallwood on the team, but with Sproles back, there likely is only room on the 53-man roster for one of these players.
Sproles will turn 35 before this season begins and is coming off multiple severe injuries — a broken arm and a torn ACL. However, Roseman is optimistic he will be ready to play by Week 1 (via Philly.com’s Jeff McLane, on Twitter).
Thought he was gonna retire for sure
He was supposedly going to after the season,but after he got hurt he said he didn’t want it to end like that
Pumphrey is not up to the task, but what happened to Smallwood who seemed to have just fallen out of favor in Philly?
For a team with no depth before last season, they somehow ended up with 6 on the roster lol.
Good signing. Depth is never a bad thing at RB.
Even if that means 6 RBs. Lol. They will let em compete for their roles. Good coaching/GM move.
Pretty good career for a late 4th round 2005 draft pick