Martavis Bryant’s NFL comeback will occur with the Dallas Cowboys. The veteran extensive receiver, recently reinstated by way of the NFL, labored out with the workforce on Tuesday and can signal with Dallas following a excellent appearing and assembly with coaches, according to the Dallas Morning News. Bryant was once officially reinstated by way of commissioner Roger Goodell on Saturday and he has made fast paintings in getting again on an NFL roster. Cowboys COO and EVP Stephen Jones showed the exercise on Monday throughout a radio spot with 105.3FM The Fan.
“He’s [Bryant] a guy that’s a big, strong, fast receiver that we’ll certainly take a look at,” Stephen Jones stated Monday, via The Athletic.
The 31-year-old entered the league as a promising extensive receiver prospect out of Clemson. He was once decided on by way of the Pittsburgh Steelers within the fourth spherical of the 2014 NFL Draft and spent 4 seasons with the franchise. He stuck 8 touchdowns as a rookie in simply 10 video games after which posted 765 receiving yards in 11 video games performed throughout his 2d 12 months within the league.
While flashing every now and then, Bryant had run-ins with the league administrative center for violating the NFL’s substance abuse coverage. He was once suspended for the primary 4 video games of the 2015 season for violating the coverage once more. Then, in March of 2016, the NFL introduced he was once suspended for all of the season for any other violation. Bryant was once conditionally reinstated by way of the league in 2017, which might in the long run be his closing season in Pittsburgh.
He was once then traded to the then-Oakland Raiders within the spring of 2018, however he confronted the potential for a year-long suspension by way of the NFL for but any other violation. Bryant ended up taking part in 8 video games for the Raiders prior to the league got here down with an indefinite suspension for violating the phrases of his conditional reinstatement.
Since that banishment by way of the NFL, Bryant has nonetheless been at the soccer scene, making stops within the CFL and, maximum recently, joined the XFL as a member of the Vegas Vipers.
It’s unclear how a lot Bryant nonetheless has left within the tank and his prior résumé does appear to be attention-grabbing sufficient for a workforce just like the Cowboys to a minimum of see if he is value greater than a practice squad spot. At the instant, CeeDee Lamb, Michael Gallup, Brandin Cooks, KaVontae Turpin, Jalen Tolbert and Jalen Brooks make up Dallas’ extensive receiver room at the 53-man roster.