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Buffalo Bills Sign former Steelers WR Just Before Joint Practice, Preseason Game
The Buffalo Bills have signed former Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Deon Cain just before the teams' joint practice and preseason game.
The Buffalo Bills have signed former Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Deon Cain, just days before a joint practice and preseason game between the clubs.
Cain, 28, spent the 2019 and 2020 seasons with the Steelers. He was most recently with the Birmingham Stallions of the UFL, where he won a championship this past spring.
A 6-foot-2, 202-pound Clemson alum, Cain was a sixth-round pick of the Indianapolis Colts in 2018. He spent a season and a half there before the Steelers signed him off the Indianapolis practice squad in 2019.
Cain played six games down the stretch run of that season with the Steelers, making three starts. He caught five passes for 72 yards. He returned to the Steelers in 2020, spending most of the season on the practice squad, but was elevated for the team’s Week 6 and Week 17 games.
The Steelers let Cain’s contract expire for 2021, and he signed with the Baltimore Ravens, but was placed on injured reserve. He was released with an injury settlement and caught on with the Philadelphia Eagles, where he spent the remainder of the 2021 season and all of the 2022 season.
Cain’s first foray into spring football came in 2023, when he played with the Birmingham Stallions, then in the USFL, and was named the USFL Championship Game MVP while leading the Stallions to a title.
He was with the Eagles for a second time last offseason, but was cut coming out of camp and again played with Birmingham this spring, winning a title in the UFL.
The Steelers and Bills will have a joint practice at Acrisure Stadium on Thursday at 2 p.m. It will be closed to the public. The two teams will meet again on that playing surface two days later for their Week 3 preseason game on Saturday at 7 p.m.
Cain isn’t the only player with Pittsburgh ties just signed by the Bills. They also added former Pitt and Pine-Richland quarterback Ben DiNucci.
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