Tight end C.J. Uzomah has joined the Philadelphia Eagles’ practice squad, the NFL team announced on Thursday.
This is the second time this year that the Eagles have signed the Auburn alumnus.
Uzomah signed with Philadelphia on April 11 after the New York Jets released him on March 13 with a failed-physical designation and a season left on a three-year, $24 million contract.
The Eagles released Uzomah on Aug. 21 after he had played in the team’s first two preseason games.
Each NFL team can carry a 16-player practice squad. Members of the practice squad do everything players on the active roster do except play in games. But there is a path to the field for practice-squad members. Each NFL team can elevate two practice-squad members per game to active status, making them eligible to play.
Uzomah had eight receptions for 58 yards and one touchdown in 12 games, with eight starts, in 2023, when he was on the field for 239 offensive snaps and 148 special-teams plays. Uzomah finished the 2023 season on injured reserve after he sustained a medial collateral ligament injury during the Jets’ 13-8 loss to the Atlanta Falcons on Dec. 3. He missed the final five games of the season.
Uzomah entered the NFL from Auburn as a fifth-round draft choice of the Cincinnati Bengals in 2015. In his first six seasons with the Bengals, Uzomah had 114 receptions for 1,098 yards and eight touchdowns in 63 regular-season games and one playoff contest.
After missing all but two games of the 2020 season because a torn Achilles tendon, Uzomah had 49 receptions for 493 yards and five touchdowns in the 2021 regular season for Cincinnati, which won the AFC championship and lost to the Los Angeles Rams 23-20 in Super Bowl LVI.
In the Bengals’ four postseason games, Uzomah had 15 receptions for 146 yards and one touchdown. He sustained a medial collateral ligament sprain in his left knee during the Bengals’ 27-24 overtime victory against the Kansas City Chiefs in the AFC Championship Game on Jan. 30, but he still played 49 offensive snaps and caught two passes in Super Bowl LVI.
After the 2021 season, the Jets signed Uzomah in free agency.
In 106 NFL regular-season games, Uzomah has 192 receptions for 1,881 yards and 16 touchdowns.
