Getty ImagesCleveland has just added a big piece to its receiving corps.
Dwayne Bowe is signing with the Browns, Ian Rapoport of NFL Network first reported and PFT has confirmed.
Bowe visited Cleveland over the weekend after he was released by the Chiefs. The 30-year-old Bowe has played his entire eight-year career in Kansas City. Last year he had 60 catches for 754 yards.
In Cleveland, Bowe should become the No. 1 target for either Josh McCown or Johnny Manziel. The Browns’ best receiver, Josh Gordon, will miss the 2015 season while he serves a suspension for violations of the league’s substance-abuse policy.
Bowe was the second-best player still available on our Free Agent Top 100.
The Browns actually have a decent receiving corps. I’d like to see them draft a big rookie who can stretch the field and re-sign Mile Austin, who was reliable last year.
My condolences.
Was hoping he would catch on with a decent team. Sorry Bowe.
Finally someone to pass to
Man, the Browns are a dumpster fire this offseason..
Dawg Pound Nation Rise Up!
Best of luck DBowe. Got a feelin’ you’re gonna need it…
Well, at least he’ll be free in January.
lol another bad signing by the Browns
This will likely be his last significant contract, so I hope he gets as much as he can.
After all, there’s supposed to be a pot of gold waiting at the end of Dwayne Bowe.
Poor guy. He’s going from one team that couldn’t get him the ball straight to another. Dude….take a vet minimum, go catch a million passes from Brady or Luck and guarantee yourself that you’ll play in some meaningful games for once in your career.
He must not have had any other interest considering the QB situation. I am pretty surprised the Pats and Seahawks both didn’t look into signing this guy. I think he would have fit perfectly with either team and would have been able to win and at the same time put up the numbers he hasn’t been able to since Smith became his QB
Ill miss you in kc!!! Un-bowe-lievable!!!!!! I’ll miss saying that.
Isn’t this the kind of signing that makes everyone call The Browns “The factory of sadness?”
Well, that should solve all their character issues.
A possession receiver who isn’t sure handed.
He should’ve gone to a team with a qb lol. I bet he has talent and can still play. He just happened to play with wr killer Alex Smith and didn’t fit reidz system. Would’ve done better in a place like balti or something.
I love how all the hater automatically say this is a horrible signing. Why is it so bad? What do they have to lose?
It doesn’t matter who they sign. They have McCown as QB. Last year he had Jackson and Mike Evans and stunk.
Over/Under Who scores more TD’s next year for the Browns? Josh Gordon (suspended) or Dwayne Bowe?
Let’s be fair… Alshon Jeffery and Brandon Marshall weren’t complaining during the 5 game stretch McCown played in Chicago. They were lighting it up if you can recall. Truth is a great running game can lead to big plays in the passing game. No one is doubting Cleveland’s offensive line. The line will give them a chance to succeed if nothing else.
Now if they only had a QB to throw the ball.
The Browns are collecting all these WRs and still have nobody who can throw it to them. The Factory is working full-time and on weekends.
hard to get excited about this, he won’t scare many secondaries. Better than signing Crabtree who was ahead of him, I suppose. sigh
Good for him good for the Browns!! Best of luck
Browns are always good for a LOL
I’m sorry, but I don’t like this at all. The guy hasn’t had a td in 2 years. Only time will tell…
I bet he’ll be the 5th-best player still available on your Free Agent Top 100 this time next year
750 yards receiving? Why, he’d be the best WR on the Seahawks roster
Didn’t KC go the entire year with zero TD receptions by ANY receiver?
That’s an indictment on Smith, not Bowe.
But I’m sad for Bowe because after losing Hoyer, the Browns only have two loser back-ups, one of which will wind-up the starter.
He just came from a team that didn’t have a WR score a TD all year and now he’s going to a team that will have a QB not throw a TD all year … Smart move .
Somehow, someway I feel sorry for Dwayne Bowe.
You could do worse. It wasn’t like Bowe forgot how to play football, it was more that Alex Smith doesn’t want to throw the ball more than four yards. If the Browns can manage to field a quarterback this season….
I’m not even going to bother finishing that sentence.
awesome! another washed up WR to drop passes from Manziel
Less than excited.
career over
If only he could throw the ball to himself…
This clown with the cute haircut would be the steelers 4th wr, on the dumpster fire on the shores of algae filled Lake Erie, he is a 1…. Good luck with that
I predict he will catch a TD this season that i know.
7 years in a row with at least 9 losses ( 6 of those 10 plus) and last place all 7.. U have to love their consistency…
Well, that should be the last time we hear Bowe’s name mentioned for the rest of his career.
Once a member of The Factory of Sadness always a member of The Factory of Sadness. The stench never wears off completely.
alex is terrible , this is worse
A big piece? So you say…
THE RICH GET RICHER!!!!!!!
if he can match his 2014 numbers, , , , , , , , , ,wwwwwait a tick..
Bowe don’t know good teams.
The Browns are the worst franchise in sports. Just awful.
So endeth the career of Dwayne Bowe.
He’s already used to not catching TD’s. Should fit right in
Your number one receiver is suspended for smoking pot so you hire another receiver that has been suspended for a marijuana-related offense. I think it is the Browns front office that is smoking something.
Eight years? Wow it seems like just yesterday that Bowe was telling everyone about how the Chiefs veteran players would organize huge orgies on their road trips. Good times.
What happened to this guy? 4-5 years ago I thought he was going to be a top 5 receiver in the NFL.
Guess he didn’t like winning.
The one prime time game where he didn’t look like he tried to go up and fight for the ball and ended up being an interception is the first thing that comes to mind thinking of Bowe maybe GM’s thinking that way too.
Good Luck D Bowe. I wish you the Best in your new Home.
I still have a sneaky suspicion that Bowe will be catching passes from………..Sam Bradford before all is said and done this offseason.
Maybe he’ll finally catch a touchdown
Bad player to a bad team it kinda makes sense. But either way Hartline will be their nmbr 1 receiver.
I don’t get it. Don’t you want to play for a team with a real quarterback, Dwayne? For once in your career?
FINALLY! A hot target for “Hoyer the Destroyer”!
Oh. right.
Awkward
WR’s are supposed to catch TD’s right……….?
Great signing……must have been for his consistency…
#WashedUp
#FactoryOfSadness
#Manziel
SUPERBOWL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! JK…….3-13
Welcome to Cleveland. You’ll earn every dime of your money. Who is going to throw it to you? We have nothing.
*flips table
Some days it is just hard to be a Browns fan…Hartline and Bowe? Guess they won’t be drafting a wide receiver…just like last year…Watkins, Beckham…nope! Ah well, there’s always next year and we have a new logo and new uniforms on the way!
Bowe is stupid. All that marijuana he’s been smoking must have gone to his head. Why sign with another team that has no QB??? You would think a veteran such as himself would make it a point to latch on with a team with a decent QB.
That’s why there are winners and losers. He’s clearly content with losing.
Wait…doesn’t Bowe have his own substance abuse issues??
Not the best move if Bowe was signed to replace Gordon.
You wouldn’t think someone would be happy to be going to Cleveland, but Bowe must be ecstatic. Alex Smith went the entire season without throwing a TD to a WR. Not even one. You’d think someone would break a tackle, or there would be a fluke TD, but not one. That’s a miracle.
Great! Now we get all his TDs from last year!! Oh wait…
jason9696 says:
Mar 19, 2015 2:44 PM
What happened to this guy? 4-5 years ago I thought he was going to be a top 5 receiver in the NFL.
Romeo Crennel, Andy Reid and to finish it off Alex Smith.
So browns get another pot head shocking
Super solid pick up for the Browns
both the new WR signings combined stats from last year would be a normal season for a #2 WR. These aren’t game breakers, game changers or young developing guys with a high ceiling…they’re mediocre WR’s on the downside of their careers with a QB who had almost a half a good season in what, 14 years in the league? I’d rather lose with an UDFA then with old timers with no future.
Hey Ian, you sure you got it right this time? Bowe isn’t using Cleveland to negotiate with another team?
I’m not sure this precludes the Browns from drafting a WR in the 1st round. Although Farmer says WR isn’t that important, he did try to trade up for Beckham and for Cooks. It’s why the Saints traded up to draft Cooks. And, even if he doesn’t, does anyone complain that the Packers and Steelers don’t draft WRs in the 1st round?
I didn’t know Bowe could play quarterback.
No speed, no quickness, and bad hands. Other than that, he’s awesome.
Always with the hate. The Browns were 7-9 without a decent receiver or QB last year. Before Mack went down, they looked good. The front office was/is a joke, but the team was actually competitive on the field.
Ideally he will be #2, not #1. We will learn the name of #1 on April 30th.
Cleveland….. where careers go to die (or get MRSAA)
I hope Bowe gets a tetanus shot before he arrives….
For all the hate the Browns take, especially by their own reporters and radio guys, they’ve quietly signed five legitimate starters in the past couple weeks. And the guys that they’ve lost won’t be missed. With Bowe, Hartline, and Andrew Hawkins lined up at WR, now they can just take the best available players for their first three picks.
After all these years, I just have to ask it….is this all an intentional plan to have the Browns fail? A child couldn’t make such bad management decisions, time and again.
I love how people give a thumbs down to those speaking the truth about Bowe. He was horrible in recent years. Stone hands, slow, no separation, even his route running was slow to develop. The Browns, like many teams, should draft two WR’s in this years draft. If WR is your primary concern – you actually have a chance to take 2 out of 3 of the top 4 receivers – Parker/ Strong/ Cooper. You can swing a young QB like Hundley in the 2nd, and then a good RB in the third like Ajayai, Adbullah, Coleman – and suddenly your offense has talent.
The biggest thing this team needs in better coaching – keep it simple, keep it fast paced, keep it physical.
guess he won’t be a fantasy tease anymore
Ridiculous signing, even for the lowly Browns.
Over rated receiver going to the worst franchise in the NFL.
Can you blame him? At least he will get paid.
4 wins, at most, for this futile franchise.
Wow the Steelers should be scared now
He’s a scoring threat from anywhere but Kansas City
Brownies, you are making a big mistake!
Bowe was double-teamed his entire career in KC because they never had a legit threat on the other side. And yet he never complained and was never a locker room problem.
Just think about that for a minute.
Watch out all you Browns Haters! The latest quarterback rumor that I just read on fs states that Phillip Rivers may be traded to Cleveland for the 19 pick. The reasoning is that Rivers is in the last year of his contract and won’t sign a new one until possibly after the season. If Cleveland can pull this off they are instantly a playoff contender! Go Browns!
Browns fans you got a steal. The D Bowe show lives on. The guy is every bit as good as Calvin Johnson. He’s a freak, just wait…
Loved the pick when the Chiefs drafted him. Everyone rips Alex Smith. The guy Has NO O-line to give him time, let alone protect him. Bowe had ONE good year (15) TD’s if I remember correctly. Peace out gator arms. Makes the unbelievable catch & drops routine throws. Peace out u BUM!!!