The Steelers have signed wide receiver Donte Moncrief, a free agent who played in all 16 games for Jacksonville last year.Moncrief joined the Steelers on a two-year contract, the team announced Thursday. Financial terms were not disclosed.Moncrief gives the Steelers some depth at receiver after they traded Antonio Brown to Oakland.Who won: The Steelers or Antonio Brown? Tap the video player above to watch the report. "We are excited to sign Donte Moncrief to a two-year deal with the Pittsburgh Steelers,” general manager Kevin Colbert said. "We feel he is a great addition to our wide receiver group and we look forward to his contributions to our offense in 2019. "Moncrief had receptions for 668 yards and three touchdowns with the Jaguars in 2018. He started 14 of Jacksonville's 16 games.In his five-year NFL career, Moncrief has caught 200 passes for 2,543 yards and 21 touchdowns. He played one season with Jacksonville after four years with the Indianapolis Colts, who drafted him in the third round in 2014.Pittsburgh's receiving corps now includes JuJu Smith-Schuster, James Washington, Ryan Switzer, Eli Rogers, Diontae Spencer, Ka'Raun White and Moncrief. Brown is gone, and Justin Hunter and Darrius Heyward-Bey are unsigned free agents.Will Antonio Brown be able to coexist with Raiders coach Jon Gruden? Tap the video player below to watch the report. The Steelers have signed wide receiver Donte Moncrief, a free agent who played in all 16 games for Jacksonville last year. Moncrief joined the Steelers on a two-year contract, the team announced Thursday. Financial terms were not disclosed. Advertisement Moncrief gives the Steelers some depth at receiver after they traded Antonio Brown to Oakland. Who won: The Steelers or Antonio Brown? Tap the video player above to watch the report. "We are excited to sign Donte Moncrief to a two-year deal with the Pittsburgh Steelers,” general manager Kevin Colbert said. "We feel he is a great addition to our wide receiver group and we look forward to his contributions to our offense in 2019." Moncrief had receptions for 668 yards and three touchdowns with the Jaguars in 2018. He started 14 of Jacksonville's 16 games. In his five-year NFL career, Moncrief has caught 200 passes for 2,543 yards and 21 touchdowns. He played one season with Jacksonville after four years with the Indianapolis Colts, who drafted him in the third round in 2014. Pittsburgh's receiving corps now includes JuJu Smith-Schuster, James Washington, Ryan Switzer, Eli Rogers, Diontae Spencer, Ka'Raun White and Moncrief. Brown is gone, and Justin Hunter and Darrius Heyward-Bey are unsigned free agents. Will Antonio Brown be able to coexist with Raiders coach Jon Gruden? Tap the video player below to watch the report.<doc-sep>Phelan M. Ebenhack/Associated Press Free-agent wide receiver Donte Moncrief has signed a two-year contract with the Pittsburgh Steelers, the team announced on Thursday. Adam Schefter of ESPN first reported the deal. The 25-year-old Moncrief caught 48 passes for 668 yards and three touchdowns for the Jacksonville Jaguars last season. He played his first four years with the Indianapolis Colts. He will play alongside new No. 1 wideout JuJu Smith-Schuster, who is taking over as the lead pass-catcher after Pittsburgh traded wideout Antonio Brown to the Oakland Raiders. Moncrief should help form a new pass-catching trio with second-year wideout James Washington, who snagged 16 passes for 217 yards and a touchdown in limited action. He obviously won't replace Brown, a seven-time Pro Bowler and four-time All-Pro who has averaged 114 receptions per season since 2013. The Steelers' new pass-catcher also hasn't been that consistent of late, as he has amassed no better than a 55.3 percent catch rate since 2016. But Moncrief has also faced some obstacles over the past three years. In 2016, he suffered shoulder and hamstring issues and missed seven games. He still caught seven touchdown passes. Video Play Button Videos you might like In 2017, Moncrief suffered injuries again and missed four games, but he was also without starting quarterback Andrew Luck, who sat the entire year recovering from shoulder surgery. Moncrief then moved to Jacksonville, where the bottom fell out after a promising 2017 season. The 2018 team scored the second-fewest points in the league, and Jacksonville benched starting quarterback Blake Bortles twice. Running back Leonard Fournette also missed half the season with hamstring injuries, and no tight end accumulated more than 214 yards. The whole offense was a disappointment, and Moncrief may have fallen victim to that. But now he's on a stout Steelers offense with a great offensive line, a bona fide star in Smith-Schuster and a solid franchise quarterback in Ben Roethlisberger. Moncrief isn't about to snag 100-plus passes like Brown, but he could see a strong production spike in 2019.<doc-sep>Unless you've been living under a rock, you know that earlier this week the Pittsburgh Steelers traded their No. 1 wideout, Antonio Brown, to the Oakland Raiders for third and fifth-round picks in the 2019 NFL Draft. That move left the Steelers with a bit of a hole in their wide receiver corps, and they responded early Thursday morning by signing former Colts and Jaguars wide receiver Donte Moncrief to a two-year deal, according to ESPN.com's Adam Schefter. Moncrief, a third-round pick of the Colts in 2014, spent his first four years in Indianapolis before signing with Jacksonville last year. His best season came back in 2015, when he was one of Andrew Luck's top targets and caught 64 passes for 733 yards and five touchdowns. He had a solid but unspectacular season with the Jags last year, hauling in 48 passes for 668 yards and three scores. He has good size at 6-2, 220 pounds, and he's shown an ability to make plays on downfield throws, but he has never been consistent enough to become the kind of force his talent sometimes suggests he can be. Moncrief will not be the No. 1 receiver in Pittsburgh (that's JuJu Smith-Schuster's role now) but he figures to battle it out with second-year man James Washington, slot receivers Eli Rogers and Ryan Switzer, and whomever the Steelers add either in the remainder or free agency or the draft for the role as Ben Roethlisberger's secondary perimeter target. The Steelers' offense is going to take on a much different look and feel without Brown, Le'Veon Bell, and longtime right tackle Marcus Gilbert, and Moncrief's signing is just one piece of what has to be a much larger puzzle.<doc-sep>
The resolution of the Antonio Brown situation — a trade to the Oakland Raiders for a pair of draft picks — left a big hole at wide receiver for the Pittsburgh Steelers. The team made an effort to fill that hole by agreeing to a deal with Donte Moncrief. Moncrief, a five-year veteran, signed a two-year deal to join the Steelers, the team announced Thursday. The 6-foot-2 Moncrief spent the 2018 season with the Jacksonville Jaguars. The Jaguars didn’t really have much of an aerial attack, but Moncrief managed to turn in respectable numbers: 48 catches, 668 yards and three touchdowns. “We are excited to sign Donte Moncrief to a two-year deal with the Pittsburgh Steelers,” team GM Kevin Colbert said. “We feel he is a great addition to our wide receiver group and we look forward to his contributions to our offense in 2019.” Moncrief, 25, signed on with the Jags following four seasons with the Indianapolis Colts. The Colts drafted the Ole Miss product in the third round in 2014. During his time in Indy, Moncrief totaled 152 catches for 1,875 yards and 18 touchdowns. His best statistical output came in his second year, 2015. That season, playing opposite T.Y, Hilton, Moncrief had 64 catches for 733 yards and a team-leading six touchdowns. He couldn’t carry that production over into 2016 and 2017, however. Moncrief dealt with injuries in both seasons, missing seven games in 2016 and four games in 2017. Donte Moncrief (10) had 48 catches for 668 yards last year for the Jacksonville Jaguars. Now he's reportedly headed to the Pittsburgh Steelers. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack) In Pittsburgh, he’ll team up with JuJu Smith-Schuster, who led the Steelers with 111 catches for 1,426 last year and will carry an even bigger load now that Brown has been shipped out of town. Pittsburgh also may rely on the progression of James Washington, a consistent big play threat during his time at Oklahoma State who showed flashes as a rookie in 2018. Story continues The Steelers, coming off a 9-6-1, also tight end Vance McDonald (50 catches for 610 yards) and slot man Ryan Switzer (36 catches for 253 yards) in their receiving corps. More from Yahoo Sports: