Roundup: Washington signs former Tulane basketball player Sammis Reyes

Washington’s top tight end last season, Logan Thomas, didn’t play the position in college. Its latest tight end acquisition didn’t even play the sport until recently.

The Football Team signed former Tulane basketball player Sammis Reyes on Tuesday, just weeks after he impressed scouts as a pass-catcher at Florida’s pro day.

Reyes, who grew up in Chile before moving to the United States at the age of 14, played basketball at North Broward Prep in Florida and then at Tulane. In two seasons on the hardwood for the Green Wave, the 6-foot-6 athlete started two of 32 games played and played 254 minutes total, scoring 24 points and recording 48 rebounds and 12 blocks. He also spent some time with the Chilean national team.

After college, however, Reyes turned to the gridiron.

“I wanted to go to the NBA; that was my dream my entire childhood, and of course it never happened,” Reyes told the South Florida Sun Sentinel in January. “So when I was 23, my current agent, my family and my close friends, they were like, … ‘You’ve got to give this football thing a shot. You’re fast, you’re strong, you’re powerful.’ So my friends, my best friends, and everybody around me convinced me to give it a shot.”

Reyes spent the last 10 weeks training with 10 other NFL hopefuls involved in the International Player Pathway Program at IMG Academy in Florida before showing out at Florida’s pro day on March 31.

The 25-year-old isn’t guaranteed a spot on Washington’s opening-day roster, but there is opportunity there to crack the final 53; as things stand, Reyes will compete with Temarrick Hemingway, Marcus Baugh, Tyrone Swoopes and Dylan Cantrell to back up Thomas.

Elsewhere around the NFL on Tuesday:

• The Arizona Cardinals agreed to terms with running back James Conner on a one-year deal.

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