Posted by Sabrina B. @gametimegirl

The Pittsburgh Steelers agreed to a one-year deal with former New York Jets receiver Jerricho Cotchery on Thursday, a league source told ESPN NFL Insider Adam Schefter.

The Jets released Cotchery last week and soon after signed former Baltimore Ravens receiver Derrick Mason. Coach Rex Ryan said that Cotchery asked to be traded or released.

Cotchery, 29, was drafted by New York in the fourth round out of North Carolina State in 2004 and worked his way into the Jets’ starting lineup after a few seasons. Sure-handed and consistent, he has 353 career catches for 4,474 yards and 18 touchdowns.

Despite offseason back surgery, Cotchery expressed a desire to regain his starting job, especially with Santonio Holmes and Braylon Edwards headed to free agency. The Jets re-signed Holmes for $50 million and let Edwards walk, but instead of turning to Cotchery for the No. 2 job, they made a frantic pitch for Plaxico Burress. They gave Burress a $3 million contract, considerably more than Cotchery’s 2011 salary of $1.8 million.

Cotchery won’t be starting in Pittsburgh either but will add depth to a talented receiver corps that boasts veterans Mike Wallace, Hines Ward and second-year players Antonio Brown and Emmanuel Sanders, who impressed as rookies. Ward, however, was just recently activated off the physically-unable-to perform list after having offseason thumb surgery and Sanders had foot surgery this offseason.

WRITTEN BY Information from ESPNNewYork.com’s Rich Cimini and The Associated Press was used in this report & FULL STORY HERE