Corey Brown, Bills Agree on Reported 1-Year Contract

The Buffalo Bills announced Sunday that they signed with free-agent wide receiver Corey "Philly" Brown.

According to NFL Network's Ian Rapoport, the deal is for one year. Financial terms were not immediately disclosed. 

The 25-year-old spent the last three seasons with the Carolina Panthers and compiled 79 catches for 1,019 yards and seven touchdowns during that stretch. 

Now a member of the Bills, Brown will reunite with former Panthers assistant Sean McDermott, who was recently named Buffalo's new head coach. 

And based on the current composition of the Bills' depth chart, Brown should have chances aplenty to capitalize on his prove-it deal. 

Following the free-agent departures of Robert Woods to the Los Angeles Rams and Marquise Goodwin to the San Francisco 49ers, the Bills have been left with Sammy Watkins and a handful of unproven players in Kolby Listenbee, Dezmin Lewis and Walter Powell. 

Having said that, Brown doesn't have the physical profile necessary to operate as the Bills' other starting boundary wide receiver opposite Watkins.

At 5'11" and 190 pounds, Brown projects as more of a third or fourth receiver who can give the Bills an added injection of vertical speed now that Woods and Goodwin are lacing up their cleats on the West Coast.