{"id":104667,"date":"2021-03-18T13:42:20","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T17:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/?p=104667"},"modified":"2021-03-18T13:43:15","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T17:43:15","slug":"jared-cook-signs-with","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2021\/03\/18\/jared-cook-signs-with\/","title":{"rendered":"Jared Cook Signs With Los Angeles Chargers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">11-year veteran tight end<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/C\/CookJa02.htm\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a0Jared Cook<\/a> signed a one-year, $6 million contract with the Los Angeles Chargers. Cook spent time with five teams since entering the league, most recently with the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/category\/nfl-teams\/saints\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">New Orleans Saints<\/a> in 2019 and 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">TE Jared Cook to the Chargers &#8211; 1-year, $6mil max, per source.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdamSchefter\/status\/1372603137077477381?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 18, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Jared Cook, Los Angeles Chargers, Agree to Contract<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Cook was taken in the third round of the 2009 draft by the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/category\/nfl-teams\/titans\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Tennessee Titans<\/a> and spent the first four years of his career in Nashville.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">During his 2020 efforts with the New Orleans Saints, Cook would take the field in 15 games, starting five. He would catch 37 passes for 504 yards and find the end zone seven times during that time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">His previous two seasons in 2018 and 2019 saw him reach the Pro Bowl for the first and second time, once with the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/category\/nfl-teams\/raiders\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Raiders<\/a> and once with the Saints. 2018 saw him set a career-high yard total with 896 in what turned out to be his most recent 16 game season and a career-high 16.4 yards per reception and nine touchdowns.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Before joining the Raiders in 2017, Cook spent one season with the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/category\/nfl-teams\/packers\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Green Bay Packers<\/a>. While his season with the team was interrupted with an ankle sprain early in the season recording only 377 yards and a single touchdown during the regular season, he would impact the team in the Postseason, most notably in the Divisional Round against the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/category\/nfl-teams\/cowboys\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Dallas Cowboys<\/a>, where he would famously catch a sideline pass from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/R\/RodgAa00.htm\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Aaron Rodgers<\/a> with 5 seconds remaining to set up a game-winning field goal as time expired.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Cook beforehand spent three seasons with the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/category\/nfl-teams\/rams\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Rams<\/a>, where he would play all 16 games in all of those seasons. The best of which was 2013 with 671 yards and five touchdowns off of 51 receptions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Having been drafted in by the Tennessee Titans out of the South Carolina Gamecocks for whom he started 15 games out of 36 under offensive head coach <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/coaches\/SpurSt0.htm\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Steve Spurrier<\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">, His impact in Tennessee peaked in the third year of his deal with 759 yards and three touchdowns off of 49 receptions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Main photo:<br \/>\n<a id=\"CxqT8g40SdNPb1DyFl5f9Q\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1295704842\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'CxqT8g40SdNPb1DyFl5f9Q',sig:'CwaV1dg8zzkezbx-mvkmirTz6sF6frDqS9mabhHYIDk=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1295704842',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jared Cook was taken in the third round of the 2009 draft by the Tennessee Titans and spent the first four years of his career there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3693,"featured_media":104693,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[7234,274,7334,246],"class_list":["post-104667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl-news","tag-2021-nfl-free-agency","tag-jared-cook","tag-new-orleans-saints-roster","tag-nfl-news"],"modified_by":"Will Noltie, Managing Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3693"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}