{"id":59789,"date":"2019-04-16T16:55:32","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T20:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonnfl.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=59789"},"modified":"2019-04-16T16:55:32","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T20:55:32","slug":"free-agent-demaryius-thomas-signs-new-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2019\/04\/16\/free-agent-demaryius-thomas-signs-new-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Demaryius Thomas Signs With the New England Patriots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Free agent wide receiver, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/T\/ThomDe03.htm\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Demaryius Thomas<\/strong><\/a>, is going to sign a new deal with the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprofootball.com\/nfl-teams\/patriots\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New England Patriots<\/a>. Contract details are pending at this time. Prior to last year\u2019s trade deadline, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/teams\/htx\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Houston Texans<\/a> acquired Thomas from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/teams\/den\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Denver Broncos<\/a>. Following the trade, the four-time Pro Bowler caught 23 passes for 275 yards and two touchdowns in just seven games. Thomas\u2019 previous<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spotrac.com\/nfl\/houston-texans\/demaryius-thomas-6531\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> contract<\/a> was a five-year, $70 million deal with the Broncos signed prior to the 2015 season.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Source: the Patriots are signing longtime Broncos WR Demaryius Thomas.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Field Yates (@FieldYates) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FieldYates\/status\/1118254603060109314?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">April 16, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h1><strong>Free Agent Demaryius Thomas Signs New Deal With New England Patriots<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>The Texans <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/25979799\/texans-release-veteran-wr-demaryius-thomas\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">released<\/a> Thomas on February 12th, which was a direct result of his torn Achilles from December. While the 31-year-old receiver plans to get healthy and return to the game, the Texans were obviously concerned about his second Achilles injury. Had Houston re-signed him, Thomas would receive a non-guaranteed $14 million salary in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>During his nine seasons with the Broncos, Thomas played <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/stats\/_\/id\/13216\/demaryius-thomas\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">125 games<\/a>. He had 665 receptions for 9,055 yards. In the 2010 NFL Draft, Denver drafted\u00a0the Georgia Tech receiver <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/stats\/_\/id\/13216\/demaryius-thomas\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">22nd overall<\/a>. During his three seasons as a Georgia Tech Yellow Jacket, Thomas had 120 receptions for 2,339 yards and 15 touchdowns. Thomas was the first wide receiver selected in the 2010 draft, followed two spots later by the only other first-round wide receiver drafted that year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/B\/BryaDe01.htm\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Dez Bryant<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>From 2012-16, Thomas never finished a season with fewer than 1,000 receiving yards. It included the 2014 season which was the most prolific of his career from a yardage standpoint. His 1,619 yards that year was second to only <strong>Antonio Brown<\/strong>. In four of those five seasons, Thomas garnered a Pro Bowl invitation.<\/p>\n<p>As of February 28th, Colorado police took Thomas into custody for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/boston\/patriots\/free-agent-demaryius-thomas-arrested-vehicular-assault-charge\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">vehicular assault<\/a> and driving without insurance. The charges result from an incident on February 16th and have recently taken the spotlight away from his free agency.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"C_6z8mipR79RUxcS85mD7w\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1074000254\" 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:'C_6z8mipR79RUxcS85mD7w',sig:'e3hTd9CZjj6UAbfQhRNgcdJP2Q-h_yC-5DVXT2jIr-M=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1074000254',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>Demaryius Thomas came to the Houston Texans last year in a midseason trade with the Denver Broncos but his season was cut short due to a torn Achilles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2831,"featured_media":60670,"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":[14,5,36],"tags":[4547,2658,266,61,114,40],"class_list":["post-59789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-texans","category-patriots","category-nfl-news","tag-2019-nfl-season","tag-demaryius-thomas","tag-denver-broncos","tag-football","tag-houston-texans","tag-nfl"],"modified_by":"Will Noltie, Managing Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59789","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\/2831"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}