Xavier Gipson indicators with Eagles after being lower by Jets and Giants
Xavier Gipson is headed down I-95.
After being lower by the Jets and the Giants within the span of 10 days, Gipson is now a member of the defending Tremendous Bowl champion Eagles after they claimed him off waivers, the staff introduced on Monday.
Gipson is now on his third staff this season after his time with the Jets ended after a pricey miscue of their Week 1 loss to the Steelers, after which he spent 9 days as a Large with out enjoying in a sport for them.
The Eagles made the transfer a day after they’d had points on kickoffs throughout their win over the Rams, which noticed Tank Bigsby battle on two punt returns.
Philadelphia additionally noticed large receiver Darius Cooper injure his shoulder in that sport.
Gipson had spent the primary two seasons of his profession with the Jets after signing with Gang Inexperienced as an undrafted free agent in 2023.
By way of 35 profession video games with the Jets, he had returned 68 punts and 44 kickoffs, whereas averaging 8.9 yards on the punt returns and 26.0 on the kickoff returns.
As a large receiver, Gipson had 27 catches for 268 yards for the Jets and a landing.
The error within the Week 1 sport helped the Steelers come from behind in what would finish in a 34-32 loss at MetLife Stadium.
Afterward, head coach Aaron Glenn didn’t sugarcoat the repercussions.
“The one factor to me that turned this sport is, man, we will’t have turnovers,” Glenn advised reporters after the loss. “We are able to’t do it. Now we have to be a extra disciplined staff. There have been some penalties that occurred in that sport that have been true self-discipline points and, once more, that’s one thing that shall be addressed as a result of you’ll not be on the sphere with this staff in case you’re going to trigger us to lose video games, in case you’re going to trigger points like that.”
