Bengals officially sign Dansby to 1-year deal
Lions ink OL Schwartz
WASHINGTON, March 31, (RTRS): The Cincinnati Bengals officially signed linebacker Karlos Dansby, a free agent who led the Cleveland Browns in tackles last season, to a one-year contract Wednesday.
The Bengals also reached a contract agreement with free agent wide receiver Brandon LaFell, who spent the past two seasons with the New England Patriots.
Dansby, 34, started every game for the Browns in 2015, recording 108 tackles and three interceptions, with two for touchdowns. He was released by the Browns on March 16.
Dansby, 34, has started all but seven of his teams’ games over the past eight seasons and has 41 career sacks and 19 interceptions. His six interception returns for touchdowns are tied for the most by a linebacker in NFL history.
LaFell could help shore up a receiving corps that lost free agents Marvin Jones to Detroit and Mohamed Sanu to Atlanta during the offseason.
Last season with the Patriots, LaFell had 37 receptions for 515 yards in 11 games after beginning the year on injured reserve with a foot injury.
The Detroit Lions signed free agent offensive lineman Geoff Schwartz to a one-year contract.
Schwartz, 29, joins the Lions following a two-year stint with the New
York Giants. Last season, he started 11 games at guard before missing the final five games after suffering a broken leg.
The Patriots signed defensive back EJ Biggers as an unrestricted free agent. Terms were not announced but the deal is for a reported one year and worth $840,000 with only $25,000 guaranteed.
Biggers, 28, is a veteran of seven NFL seasons with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Washington Redskins
and Philadelphia Eagles.
The Dallas Cowboys added some depth with the signing of free agent offensive lineman Joe Looney to a twoyear deal.
Looney, 25, has appeared in 27 career games at both guard positions and center. He started six games at guard for the Tennessee Titans last season.
Looney was a fourth-round pick by the San Francisco 49ers in the 2012 NFL Draft.
The San Diego Chargers signed backup quarterback Bryn Renner.
Renner gives the Chargers another quarterback behind Philip Rivers, Kel
len Clemens and Brad Sorensen. Renner, out of North Carolina, ini-
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tially signed as an undrafted free agent with the Denver Broncos in 2014.
The Los Angeles Rams reached an agreement with California Lutheran
University to use the Thousand Oaks campus as its training base for at least the next two years. The Rams, who relocated from St
Louis during the offseason, will build two practice fields, a parking lot and temporary buildings for offices, locker rooms and training.
Practices will be held at the facility during the offseason and during the regular season. Once the team leaves for a permanent facility, the complex will be turned over to the university.