Cardinals sign DE Brooks Reed to one-year contract

Robert Alford isn’t the only former Falcon the Cardinals are signing. Two days after signing Alford, the team has agreed to terms on a one-year deal with Brooks Reed, the team announced on its official site. The deal will be worth “roughly” $2M, Ian Rapoport of NFL Network noted. The team’s announcement stated that Reed, who played defensive end in Atlanta, will move to outside linebacker in the Cardinals’ 3-4 scheme. Reed had been with the Falcons for the past four seasons and had one year left on his contract when the team cut him Wednesday. Reed initially entered the league as a second-round pick of the Texans back in 2011 and signed a five-year, $22M deal with Atlanta in March 2015. This past year, he appeared in all 16 games for the Falcons with eight starts but notched just one sack. For his career, he has 21.5 sacks through eight seasons. He restructured his deal and agreed to take a pay cut last March to help him stick with the team, but it apparently wasn’t enough to keep him around this year. Reed

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