The Philadelphia Eagles are bringing in former Jacksonville Jaguars and Tennessee Titans safety Johnathan Cyprien for a look, according to Adam Schefter of ESPN.
Of course, that news takes a back seat to the part of Schefter's tweet that claims there is “no end in sight” to Malcolm Jenkins' absence from the team, which may very well be the reason Philly is hosting the veteran safety.
After visiting with the Colts on Monday, Titans’ free-agent safety Johnathan Cyprien is visiting and working out for the Eagles today, per source.
Eagles have been looking to add safety help, and Malcolm Jenkins has been a no show this off-season – with no end in sight.
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) June 4, 2019
Cyprien, who will turn 29 in July, is a bigger safety at 6-foot-1 and 211 pounds, who has also been used at times in a linebacker role. He is a former second-round pick (33rd overall) who has appeared in 70 regular season games (72 including the playoffs) over his career, starting all of them.
He played four seasons in Jacksonville from 2013 to 2016, racking up at least 100 tackles in every season, and one season in Tennessee in 2017 before tearing his ACL in Titans training camp in 2018. Tennessee released Cyprien in March.
With Jenkins missing OTAs and Rodney McLeod still recovering from ACL/MCL surgery, the Eagles are currently trotting out Andrew Sendejo and Tre Sullivan as their first team safeties. That’s not ideal.
The Eagles signing Cyprien could be especially bad news for Sendejo. If the former Vikings safety is on the Eagles’ 53-man roster past Week 10, Philadelphia will lose a 2020 fourth-round compensatory pick they’re set to receive for losing Jordan Hicks in free agency. In addition to preserving that draft pick, the Eagles could also clear $800,000 in cap space by cutting Sendejo before Week 1.
The Colts also worked Cyprien out on Monday.
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