The Tampa Bay Buccaneers move all in.
As expected, free agent wide receiver Antonio Brown and the Buccaneers signed and agreed on a one-year deal, NFL Network insider Ian Rapoport reported per source on Saturday.
The one-year contract will be slightly above the league minimum, but Brown will have the chance to earn more through individual and team incentives, reports Mike Garafolo of the NFL Network.
Brown arrived in Tampa on Friday night and started day one of the COVID-19 logs. If everything goes according to plan, Brown can play for the Bucs in week 9 after serving an eight-game ban from the League for multiple breaches of the League’s Code of Conduct.
Brown, 32, has not lost to the NFL since September 2019 when capricious wideout Tom Brady passed a single game in New England. It was the culmination of a rocky year that began with a brief exit from Pittsburgh on trade, a dramatic off-season that resulted in his release from the Raiders, and after a two-week foray with the Patriots, Browns ended 2019 with another release of the same criminal allegations that led to his suspension from the NFL.
With the chance to hit the reset button later in his career, Brown meets up with Brady again and joins a Tampa team that has invested heavily in profits this year. In their only game together last season, Brady and Brown had a palpable chemistry on the field, and it’s no wonder the future Hall of Fame quarterback was involved in re-establishing that connection. Should Brown get back in shape, Brady’s options with the recipient will be an embrace of wealth, with Mike Evans and Chris Godwin rounding off a dynamic corps.
Brown scored 104 passes for 1,297 and 15 touchdowns in the league in 2018, his last full season in the league.
