Landry makes Browns exit official, signing with Saints

The door for Jarvis Landry’s return to the Browns has closed.

The five-time Pro Bowl wide receiver agreed to terms Friday with the New Orleans Saints on a one-year contract, according to reports. Financial terms have yet to be disclosed.

Landry later confirmed on Twitter and Instagram he is going to play for his hometown NFL team. He hails from Convent, Louisiana.

“HOME !!! WHO DAT NATION SEE YOU SOON,” Landry wrote on Instagram.

Two days before the official start of NFL free agency, the Browns released Landry on March 14 in a cost-saving move.

The Saints visit the Browns for a 1 p.m. game on Christmas Eve.

Landry had been scheduled to make $15.1 million in salary and bonuses while carrying a salary-cap hit of $16.38 million in 2022, the final year of his contract with the Browns. Cutting him cost the franchise just $1.5 million in dead cap and saved them $14.879 million in cap space.

NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport said Tuesday on “The Pat McAfee Show” the Browns offered Landry “a pretty nice one-year deal,” but he rejected the proposal.

On March 28, agent Roosevelt Barnes told the Beacon Journal

KIRK IRWIN / ASSOCIATED PRESS There had been speculation about free agent receiver Jarvis Landry possibly returning to the Browns, but his departure became official Friday when he agreed to terms on a one-year contract with his hometown New Orleans Saints.