The Atlanta Falcons signed DJ Chark on Friday, but it wasn't necessarily an injury replacement for Darnell Mooney.

Former LSU football star DJ Chark has a new home in the NFL. Chark is taking his talents to Atlanta as he begins year eight.

The Atlanta Falcons are expected to sign veteran wide receiver DJ Chark Jr., according to a report from Mike Garafolo of the NFL Network. The former second-round pick spent last season with the Los Angeles Chargers, appearing in seven games and recording four catches for 31 receiving yards and one touchdown.

A one-time member of the Carolina Panthers is now back in the NFC South. The rival Atlanta Falcons have added a very familiar face to its pass-catching corps.

Chark, who’s 6-foot-3 and 200 pounds, played last season with the Chargers. He was drafted by the Jaguars in the second round of the 2018 NFL draft out of LSU.

After bouncing around the last few seasons with different NFL teams, veteran free-agent wide receiver DJ Chark is in search of a new club.

It didn’t take long for the bad news bug to hit the Atlanta Falcons trainingcamp. It was announced late Friday night that Falcons wide receiver two, DarnellMooney, would miss “several weeks” with a shoulder injury suffered in the firstpractice of the season.

There was a lot of concern after Falcons wide receiver Darnell Mooney left the first day of training camp visibly shaken up, and those concerns only magnified when the team signed DJ Chark yesterday.