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Eagles Sign Samori Toure to Add Receiver Depth

The low-cost signing reunites Toure with offensive coordinator Sean Mannion and signals a short-term plan to fill out the receiver room as the team prepares to trade A.J. Brown.

Overview

  • The Philadelphia Eagles signed wide receiver Samori Toure and waived linebacker Chandler Martin, a move first reported by NFL insiders and confirmed by the team in a roster tweet on Monday.
  • Toure is a 28-year-old former Green Bay seventh-round pick whose NFL game work is limited to roughly 22–23 appearances and about a dozen catches across stints with Green Bay, Chicago, Denver and New Orleans.
  • Toure briefly overlapped with Sean Mannion when Mannion was an offensive assistant in Green Bay, a familiarity the Eagles cited as a factor in bringing him to Philadelphia.
  • Media coverage frames the deal as a low-risk depth pickup: Toure is seen mainly as competition in training camp with possible special-teams use and is a long shot to make the final 53-man roster.
  • The signing is the latest move in a wide receiver overhaul that includes Dontayvion Wicks, Marquise Brown, Elijah Moore and rookie Makai Lemon, and it comes while the club still expects but has not finalized a trade of A.J. Brown.