Not long after his Lions release, Breshad Perriman landed another deal with an NFC North squad. The Bears agreed to terms with the veteran wide receiver on a one-year deal, Adam Schefter of ESPN.com tweets.
This will mark Perriman’s sixth team, though his Lions stint did not produce a regular-season cameo. Detroit cut Perriman ahead of Tuesday’s deadline, doing so despite guaranteeing him $2MM earlier this year. The former first-round pick will now try to carve out a role in Chicago.
Although Perriman did not impress the Lions, with a training camp injury impeding his Motor City progress, he has surpassed 500 receiving yards in each of the past two years — doing so with the Buccaneers and Jets.
The former Ravens draftee will join a Bears team looking for targets alongside Allen Robinson and Darnell Mooney. Excepting Mooney, Chicago’s receiver room is filled with veteran presences. The team signed both Marquise Goodwin and Damiere Byrd this year, and both made the Bears’ 53-man roster.
Additionally, the Bears will bring back cornerback Artie Burns, Schefter adds (via Twitter). They created one roster spot by moving Danny Trevathan to IR, and Burns will rejoin the team’s active roster. The Bears initially signed Burns in 2020, but the former Steelers first-round pick suffered a torn ACL that led to an IR placement last summer. They re-signed him in March only to cut him Tuesday. Burns is now back with the team.
Really? This bum? Another fantastic Pickup by Pace. What does it take to get fired at that job?
You’d fire someone for signing a former 1st round pick to a cheap contract? Are you consciously exaggerating or do you actually mean that?
Perriman is obviously not who he was supposed to be. But, if his injury from earlier has healed, he can contribute to a team that could use another receiver who can go vertical outside of Robinson. If Perriman plays how he is supposed to, he could give them relief in that role second to Robinson. He probably won’t be getting much, so cool down a bit and wait and see. Pace has made bigger mistakes than this.
Kevin White was a 1st round pick too and I’d expect to see Pace fired on the spot if he brought him back to Chicago.
That’s a guy you’ve already tried. The offense would be what you spent on him the first time though. In Perriman’s case, someone else spent the pick, so in this case, it’s not Pace’s problem.
Could you imagine being the QB? You have ARob moping around because he didn’t get his contract, a couple of 5’9 guy and Perriman who 6 other teams thought was worthless….Darnell Mooney to the rescue.
ARob is NOT moping around because he was franchise tagged.