{"id":71756,"date":"2025-07-28T07:52:22","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T07:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=71756"},"modified":"2025-07-28T07:52:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T07:52:22","slug":"san-francisco-49ers-sign-former-ohio-state-cornerback-eli-apple-to-one-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=71756","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco 49ers Sign Former Ohio State Cornerback Eli Apple to One-Year Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eli Apple is joining the seventh team of his NFL career.<\/p>\n<p>After spending last season with the Los Angeles Chargers, Apple landed an opportunity to continue his NFL tenure on Sunday as the San Francisco 49ers signed him to a one-year deal.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\">Veteran cornerback Eli Apple is signing a one-year deal with the 49ers, per Kevin Conner at @UniSportsMgmt. pic.twitter.com\/fN9DD4pQwC<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) July 27, 2025<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The former Ohio State cornerback is entering his ninth NFL season. 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He then spent one year with the Miami Dolphins before joining the Chargers last season.<\/p>\n<p>Apple joins two other former Ohio State players, Nick Bosa and Luke Farrell, on the 49ers\u2019 roster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eli Apple joins the seventh team of his NFL career as the San Francisco 49ers sign the former Ohio State cornerback to a one-year deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":71757,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>San Francisco 49ers Sign Former Ohio State Cornerback Eli Apple to One-Year Deal - NEWS USA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=71756\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"San Francisco 49ers Sign Former Ohio State Cornerback Eli Apple to One-Year Deal - 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