Xavier Gipson is headed down I-95.
After being minimize 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 workforce introduced on Monday.
Gipson is now on his third workforce 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 that they had 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.
Via 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 are able to’t have turnovers,” Glenn informed reporters after the loss. “We are able to’t do it. We’ve to be a extra disciplined workforce. There have been some penalties that occurred in that sport that had been true self-discipline points and, once more, that’s one thing that will probably be addressed as a result of you’ll not be on the sector with this workforce if you happen to’re going to trigger us to lose video games, if you happen to’re going to trigger points like that.”
Gipson was minimize the following day.
