The Chicago Bears signed cornerback Tracy Porter to a one-year contract on Monday.
Porter has bounced around over the past three seasons after playing his first four years with New Orleans. He appeared in just three games last season with Washington and spent 2013 with Oakland after a six-game stint in 2012 with Denver.
The 28-year-old Indiana product was selected by the Saints in the second round of the 2008 draft and helped New Orleans win Super Bowl XLIV against Indianapolis when he returned a Peyton Manning interception 74 yards for a fourth-quarter touchdown to seal a 31-17 win over the Colts.
In 68 NFL games, including 60 starts over seven seasons, Porter has 10 interceptions -- three of which he has returned for touchdowns -- with 288 tackles and 2 1/2 sacks.
>>Pats Release LB Spikes
The New England Patriots released Brandon Spikes on Monday, just hours after Massachusetts State Police began an investigation into an abandoned car belonging to the linebacker.
According to a Massachusetts State Police release on Sunday, troopers responded to a report of a vehicle in the median strip of Route 495 in Foxboro and were notified by a representative of the OnStar on-board navigation system that the operator of the vehicle reported hitting a deer. Troopers found the vehicle, a 2011 Mercedes Maybach, abandoned in the median strip with damage to its front end. Whoever had been driving it was no longer at the scene.
An investigation indicated the Mercedes is registered to Spikes. No deer was located.
The police report stated that troopers soon after responded to another report of a vehicle in the same area as the abandoned car, whose occupants reported that they had been rear-ended by another vehicle they did not see. All three occupants of the second vehicle -- a 51-year-old man, a 32-year-old woman and a 12-year-old boy -- were transported to an area hospital with minor injuries.
Police said no charges have been filed, but the investigation to determine if there is any connection to the reported incidents is continuing.
