After two seasons with the Bears, Equanimeous St. Brown will move to a third NFC team. The former Packers draftee agreed to a deal with the Saints on Friday. It is a one-year agreement.
The 6-foot-5 wide receiver spent the past two seasons in Chicago, after playing out his rookie contract in Green Bay. St. Brown, 27, will join a Saints team that ended an eight-year Michael Thomas partnership recently. The team did add Cedrick Wilson Jr. in free agency, however.
Like fellow Friday signing Kellen Mond, St. Brown has a connection with Andrew Janocko. The new Saints QBs coach held the same position during St. Brown’s Bears tenure. St. Brown said (via NewOrleans.football’s Mike Triplett) Janocko reached out to him in free agency to help this signing across the goal line.
An injury limited St. Brown to seven games last season, but the former sixth-round pick did accumulate 323 yards on 21 receptions in 2022 — in an offense that featured a heavy emphasis on the ground game. St. Brown will join a more traditional pass offense in New Orleans.
Obviously not on the level of younger brother Amon-Ra St. Brown, Equanimeous has surpassed 120 receiving yards in just two of his six NFL seasons. After a 328-yard 2018 rookie year, St. Brown missed all of 2019 and ultimately became a role player to close out his Packers contract. He will be set to vie for a depth role in New Orleans.
Chris Olave and Rashid Shaheed remain the top Saints receivers, with Wilson set for an auxiliary role after not living up to his $8MM-per-year Dolphins deal. A.T. Perry, chosen in last year’s sixth round, averaged 20.5 yards per reception as a rookie. New Orleans also signed Stanley Morgan early in free agency. The team should still be expected to add a piece in the draft, but St. Brown provides an experienced role player for the time being.
He had to be courted by the QB coach?? St brown should be courting the teams and begging them to sign him!!!
Hahahaha
I remember when they told Packer fans that having Adams, Lazard, EQSB, and MVS was “plenty enough weapons” and that they didn’t need a first round receiver.
The drop from Adams to Lazard was so steep.
And now that have a full stable of WRs…and STILL don’t have the 1st round pick that those who have no clue still believe are a necessity….
None of those receivers had, or have had, a 1000 yard season yet. No offense to Love, but to suggest that an upgrade wouldn’t have helped is ludicrous, especially in that year, when they were so close to the Superbowl and had Aaron Jones as the most productive returning receiver on the team after Adams.
Reed was the leading receiver with 793 yards last year. Love threw for about 4100, which is good enough to produce a 1000 yard receiving most offenses, so it wasn’t purely a result of the quarterback production in my opinion.
Aman-Ra won the name battle in that family, amazingly
What happened to normal names lol
Thanks for pointing out that it’s obvious that Equaminious isn’t on the same level as Amon-Ra. We were all pretty sure they were about the same talent level. OBVIOULSLY