Patriots sign receiver Matthews

The New England Patriots signed wide receiver Jordan Matthews on Friday as they continued jumbling their corps of targets for Tom Brady.

Matthews, 25, has played four NFL seasons, three with the Eagles and last season with the Bills. In 56 NFL games with 42 starts, he has 250 receptions for 2,955 yards and 20 touchdowns.

Matthews was a second-round draft pick (42nd overall) by Philadelphia in 2014 out of Vanderbilt. He was traded from Philadelphia to Buffalo along with a third-round draft pick last summer for cornerback Ronald Darby.

New England previously saw Danny Amendola leave for Miami as a free agent and traded Brandin Cooks to the Rams for a first-round draft pick. The Patriots expect top receiver Julian Edelman to return from a knee injury that cost him the 2017 season.

Browns, Redskins swing deal: The Cleveland Browns traded their third quarterback of the off-season, sending Kevin Hogan to the Washington Redskins.

The deal includes swapping sixthround picks. Cleveland acquires the 188th pick from Washington for No. 205, which it previously acquired from New England for cornerback Jason McCourty.

Hogan follows Cody Kessler and DeShone Kizer out the door in Cleveland.

The Browns acquired cornerback Damarious Randall as part of the Kizer trade with Green Bay that included flipflopping fifth-round picks, and got a 2019 seventh-rounder from Jacksonville for Kessler.

Cleveland, which has the first overall pick in the draft, also traded with Buffalo for Tyrod Taylor, the expected starter, and signed veteran Drew Stanton to a two-year deal.

Calling it quits: The NFL assistant coach with the longest consecutive tenure with the same team finally is retiring.

The Tennessee Titans announced that strength and conditioning coach Steve Watterson is retiring after 32 years with the franchise.