Report: Saints Interested In Re-Signing WR Dez Bryant

Jane Slater of NFL Media (via Pro Football Talk) reports that the Saints would like to re-sign WR Dez Bryant.

Bryant appears to have confirmed that the interest is mutual:

⚜️ https://t.co/ba3YdDDHY2

— Dez Bryant (@DezBryant) March 12, 2019

Bryant has said previously that he has to return in 2019 and can’t allow the Achilles injury he suffered in his first week with New Orleans to end his NFL career.

“I have to (play again). I got business and I got ball,” Bryant said in an interview with KRLD-FM in Dallas, via the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. “I can’t end like this. I have to throw the X up.”

According to Ian Rapoport, the Saints liked Bryant, even though he wasn’t in game shape when they signed him, which may have contributed to him suffering an Achilles tear.

Bryant, 30, is a former first-round pick of the Cowboys back in 2010. He was in the third year of his five-year, $70 million contract that included $45 million guaranteed and was set to make base salaries of $12.5 million over the final two years of the agreement when Dallas released him in a move that freed up $8.5 million of available cap space.

The Saints signed Bryant to a one-year deal worth $600,000 over the remainder of the season. He’s once again an unrestricted free agent this offseason. 

In 2017, Bryant appeared in 15 games for the Cowboys and has caught 66 passes for 814 yards receiving and six touchdowns. Pro Football Focus had him rated as the No. 45 receiver out of 116 qualifying players that season.