The Las Vegas Raiders have agreed to a one-year contract with free agent receiver John Brown to switch the departing Nelson Agholor.
An individual conversant in the deal says the perimeters agreed on the deal Wednesday. The individual spoke on situation of anonymity as a result of the contract hadn’t been signed.
Brown will earn $3.75 million with incentives that would elevate it to $5.5 million, in accordance with SiriusXM NFL Radio’s Adam Caplan, who first reported the deal.
The Raiders had been looking for a veteran deep menace at receiver after Agholor left in free company to New England and hope they discovered the reply in Brown.
Brown, who turns 31 in April, is coming off the second-least productive season of his profession as he was restricted to 9 video games due to knee and ankle accidents and acquired fewer targets due to the addition of Stefon Diggs in Buffalo.
Brown had 33 catches for 458 yards and three touchdowns final season to associate with 10 catches for 86 yards in three playoff video games.
The Raiders are hoping for higher manufacturing from Brown in 2021 with higher well being and an even bigger position on an offense with fewer confirmed large receivers.
Brown joins second-year gamers Henry Ruggs III and Bryan Edwards, and third-year slot receiver Hunter Renfrow as the highest choices on the place in Las Vegas.
Ruggs and Edwards struggled as rookies with Ruggs catching simply 26 passes and Edwards solely 11 final season. Renfrow has 105 catches in two seasons however is generally restricted to fit responsibility.
The speedy Brown presents a deep menace along with his 14.8 yards per reception rating eighth within the NFL amongst gamers with a minimum of 200 catches since 2014, along with his common catch coming 11.1 yards downfield to rank sixth finest.
Brown has topped 1,000 yards in a season twice in his profession, recording 1,003 yards in 2015 in Arizona and 1,060 in 2019 with the Payments.
He has 320 profession catches for 4,748 yards and 31 TDs in 96 video games over seven seasons with Arizona, Baltimore and Buffalo.
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