Kearse caught 37 passes for 371 yards in 14 games for the New York Jets last year, but played his first five NFL seasons for the Seattle Seahawks and new Lions offensive coordinator Darrell Bevell.

That familiarity with the scheme was one of the reasons Kearse signed with the Lions, and it was why he didn't look like a fish out of water in his first practice just hours after signing with the team.

"There's just some things to kind of refresh your memory with, but a lot of the stuff I do remember," Kearse said of Bevell's offense "I spent quite some time with Coach Bev and just kind of looking over the playbook and just kind of refreshing my memory a lot of things are starting to be able to come back and I'm able to pick it up pretty quickly."

Kearse now joins a pretty experienced wide receiver group in Detroit, led by Kenny Golladay, Marvin Jones Jr. and free-agent signee Danny Amendola.