According to Tom Pelissero of NFL Media, the Eagles are signing DB Chauncey Gardner-Johnson to a three-year contract worth up to $33 million on Tuesday.
Recent reports indicated that a return to Philadelphia could be in the cards for Gardner-Johnson and it looks like the two parties were able to get a deal done in the end.
Gardner-Johnson missed most of the 2023 season due to a torn pec.
Gardner-Johnson, 26, is a former fourth-round pick of the Saints back in 2019 out of Florida. He was entering the final year of his four-year rookie contract and was set to make a base salary of $2.54 million when the Saints traded him to the Eagles during the preseason.
Gardner-Johnson was testing the open market as an unrestricted free agent for the first time and signed a one-year, $8 million deal with the Lions. He was placed on injured reserve after just two games with Detroit.
In 2023, Gardner-Johnson appeared in three games for the Lions and recorded 17 total tackles, three passes defenses and an interception.
We had him included in our Top 100 – 2024 NFL Free Agents list.
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