The Patriots have signed wide receiver Corey Coleman to their practice squad, according to Ian Rapoport of NFL.com (Twitter link).
New England originally signed Coleman to its 53-man roster earlier this month, but he was cut when the Patriots acquired another former Brown — the mercurial Josh Gordon — via trade on Monday. Given that he’s only accrued two NFL seasons, Coleman still has practice squad eligibility, and will be given the opportunity to develop with the Patriots in practice and in meetings.
Given the Patriots’ unsettled wide receiver depth chart, Coleman could still conceivably work his way back onto their active roster this season. With Julian Edelman suspended for two more games, New England’s list of pass-catchers includes only Chris Hogan, Gordon, Phillip Dorsett, and Cordarrelle Patterson (excluding special-teamer Matthew Slater).
Coleman, the 15th overall pick in the 2016 draft, didn’t produce during his two seasons with the Browns, but that was partly due his suffering a broken hand in each campaign. Cleveland moved on Coleman earlier this year, trading him to the Bills for a 2020 seventh-round pick, but Buffalo waived him before the regular season got underway.
Nice Signing.
Entitled attitude. The player, that is.
Couldn’t agree more.
Is this guy really that bad?
Been constantly injured, and has an attitude problem. Heck, he even had some off-field issues.
Oh, and he drops passes….especially against Pittsburgh.
Rather than sign Cleveland castoffs one at a time, why doesn’t BB just swap jobs with Hue?
With Wild Bill himself a Cleveland castoff he has a softness for other guys that also totally bombed there…
Haha. That’s funny. Belichick did well in Cleveland, though that was when it was ran by the Ravens franchise. (Confusing, I know)
It’s not confusing, you’re confused. He took over a playoff caliber team in 1991 and was fired in 1995 after a 5-11 season. The Ravens didn’t yet exist o they weren’t run by the Ravens franchise, they were the original Cleveland Browns being run by the Cleveland Browns until they bombed that season and then bolted for Baltimore to line Art Modells pockets.
We left the organization because he refused to lead a team in Baltimore and asked for his contract to be terminated
I thought the move to Baltimore had to do with inheritance laws and Modell wanting to make sure he could leave the franchise to his kids, rather than his estate having to sell it after he passed away.