The Eagles added a pair of draft picks from the 2022 draft on Tuesday, signing former third-round RB Tyron Davis-Price and former fifth-round OT Darian Kinnard.
The 49ers selected Davis-Price 93rd overall in 2022, making him the fifth running back overall. Davis-Price passed for 1,744 yards and a 4.6 average with 15 touchdowns at LSU, including a 1,003-yard season in 2021.
But he played sparingly in his two NFL seasons, appearing in just seven games. As a rookie, he ran 34 times for just 99 yards and a 2.9 average and was just 6 of 21 last season, splitting time between the 53-man roster and the practice squad. He didn't play in the postseason.
Davis-Price had a career-high 14 carries and 33 yards in his NFL debut on Opening Day 2022 against the Seahawks, but only had 26 carries and 87 yards after that. He never averaged more than 3.5 yards per carry in any of the five games in which he had more than one carry.
The 49ers released Davis-Price in early December, and he finished the season on their practice squad and then became a free agent when he did not sign a futures contract with San Francisco.
The 49ers drafted running backs in the third round in both 2021 and 2022, and both ended up with the Eagles. Their 2021 pick was Trey Sermon, who spent 2022 with the Eagles and ended up playing for Shane Steichen in Indianapolis last season.
Eagles running backs D'Andre Swift, Boston Scott and Rashaad Penny are all free agents. Kenny Gainwell is the only one back under contract. They also signed practice squad running back Lew Nichols to a futures deal. Nichols, the Packers' seventh-round pick last year, spent the final three months of the season on the Eagles' practice squad.
Kinnard, 24, was a 2022 fifth-round pick out of Kentucky. He played in one game as a rookie and was on the Chiefs' practice squad in 2023.
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