Former Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Martavis Bryant is re-signing with the Dallas Cowboys on a reserve/future contract for the 2024 season, according to a report by Aaron Wilson of KRPC-TV in Houston.
Bryan made his return to the NFL earlier this season after he spent four years waiting out reinstatement for an indefinite suspension by commissioner Roger Goodell. He signed with the Cowboys practice squad on Nov. 7, but was released on Jan. 4 without appearing in a game.
It seems that the Cowboys saw enough in Bryant to lock him up for the 2024 season right away. Bryant was free to sign with any other NFL team, but did not visit any other clubs since his release.
Bryant, 31, has not played in the NFL since 2018, when he was with the Oakland Raiders. He was suspended indefinitely by NFL commissioner Roger Goodell in 2018 after several failed drug tests for marijuana usage. He applied for reinstatement in 2019, but spent four years waiting to be reinstated, even after the NFL changed the rules so that Bryant would not longer have been suspended for his offenses if they occurred today.
Since he got the boot from the league, Bryant has been playing anywhere and everywhere, spending time with the Toronto Argonauts and Edmonton Elks of the Canadian Football League, at least two indoor football teams. He then played this spring with the Vegas Vipers of the XFL.
But it looks like this offseason, he’ll be able to put his itinerant ways aside and stay with the Cowboys throughout the offseason, with a chance to make the team’s 53-man roster next August.
Selected in the fourth round of the 2014 NFL Draft, Bryant spent the first three seasons of his career in Pittsburgh, catching 126 passes for 1,917 yards and 17 touchdowns. The Steelers traded Bryant to the Oakland Raiders before the 2018 season, but he played in just eight games before the suspension.
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