The Bengals today signed unrestricted free agent Terrell Owens, one of the most productive wide receivers in NFL history. Also today, the club waived WR Freddie Brown, a first-year NFL player from Utah.
In Owens’ 14 previous NFL seasons -- with San Francisco, Dallas, Philadelphia and Buffalo -- he has career accomplishments that include:
* 14,951 receiving yards, third in NFL history
* 144 touchdown receptions, third in NFL history
* 1006 receptions, sixth all-time
* Six Pro Bowl selections and six All-Pro selections.
“The addition of Terrell brings another accomplished and productive player to our offensive team,” said head coach Marvin Lewis. “When you add his kind of threat to your passing game, it helps your running game, too, because defenses have to account for it. We’ve witnessed it as a defense playing against him. We’ve been through the process of trying to prevent it.
“We have visited extensively with Terrell through the offseason,” Lewis added. “We feel good about his goals and our team goals having the opportunity to match up."
Owens (6-3, 224; Tennessee-Chattanooga) started every game for Buffalo last season and led the Bills in receptions (55), receiving yards (829) and yards-per-catch (15.1). He came to Buffalo as an unrestricted free agent for 2009, after spending the 2006-08 seasons with Dallas.
He has played 189 NFL games with 174 starts, and he has missed only nine career games due to injuries. He also has played and started in 12 postseason games, including Super Bowl XXXIX for Philadelphia (2004 season), and he has 54 postseason receptions for 751 yards and five TDs.
