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Steelers News<\/a>\u2022Steelers Transactions<\/a><\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"ShrineWake Forest wide receiver A.T. Perry (9) warms up before an NCAA college football game in Winston-Salem, N.C., Saturday, Sept. 17, 2022. (AP Photo\/Chuck Burton)\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

The Pittsburgh Steelers have signed wide receiver A.T. Perry to a reserve\/future contract, the team announced on Thursday.<\/a><\/p>\n

Perry is a 6-foot-3, 198-pound Wake Forest alum that is entering his fourth professional season.<\/p>\n

He started as a sixth-round pick of the New Orleans Saints in 2023, spending a season and a half with New Orleans before catching on with the Broncos practice squad and spending another season and a half there. His contract with the Broncos expired this week.<\/p>\n

Perry has played in 10 career NFL games, all in his rookie season with the Saints, and even started three. He finished that year with 12 catches for 246 yards and four touchdowns.<\/p>\n

He played four seasons at Wake Forest, breaking out in 2021, catching 71 passes for 1,293 yards and 15 touchdowns as the Demon Deacons made it all the way to the ACC Championship Game, where they lost to Pitt<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He returned to Wake Forest in 2022, setting a career high with 81 catches, gaining 1,096 yards and scoring 11 touchdowns.<\/p>\n

In pre-draft testing, he ran a 4.47-second 40-yards dash and posted an 11-foot-1 broad jump for an overall 9.61 Relative Athletic Score out of 10.<\/p>\n

The Steelers do not have much in terms of signed wide receivers for 2026, with Perry joining DK Metcalf<\/a>, Roman Wilson<\/a>, Ben Skowronek<\/a> and returning practice squad members Max Hurleman and John Rhys Plumlee. The Steelers have also brought in Cole Burgess and Brandon Smith on reserve\/future contracts, with the club\u2019s lack of depth at the position providing a rare opportunity for players to carve out a role on the 53-man roster from that position.<\/p>\n

The addition of new head coach Mike McCarthy,<\/a> who runs a West Coast offense that usually plays three wide receivers, will also provide increased opportunities at the position compared to the tight end-heavy approach of former coordinator Arthur Smith<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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