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Eagles' Brandon Graham gets $4.895 million contract update amid comeback from retirement

Brandon Graham's comeback from retirement continues to get more and more official.

The Philadelphia Eagles have now given Graham his contract, with details emerging from NFL Network's Ian Rapoport on Thursday.

According to Rapoport, the contract is a one-year deal worth $4,895,500.

Graham won't see that full amount, since he's not playing a full season.

For the slightly more than half the season Graham will play, he'll get $2.44 million, Rapoport reports, including a signing bonus of $1,677,500.

Graham retired after the Eagles won the Super Bowl in February.

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But when the Eagles lost Za'Darius Smith to retirement earlier this month, a comeback for Graham became real.

"(Graham) retired last offseason but has missed the game and pondered unretiring," ESPN's Adam Schefter wrote on Sunday. "Once Smith retired, it created even more of a need for the Eagles."

Graham played 15 seasons for the Eagles, making him the longest-tenured player in Philly history.

He's a two-time Super Bowl champion. In February, he returned from a torn triceps muscle to help the Eagles beat the Chiefs.

That could've been the final game of his career, but now he's coming back.

"Graham holds the Eagles record for most regular-season games played (206) and is third in franchise history with 76.5 career sacks," Schefter writes. "He made his lone Pro Bowl in 2020 and recorded his first double-digit sack campaign in 2022, posting 11 takedowns. Graham's strip sack of Tom Brady in the closing moments of Super Bowl LII helped secure a narrow win over the New England Patriots and delivered the first Lombardi Trophy to the city of Philadelphia."

The Eagles are certainly glad to have Graham back. They're 5-2 and looking to get on a roll to try and defend their title.

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