The Philadelphia Eagles have signed former Washington Redskins linebacker Zach Brown to a one-year deal, according to Adam Schefter of ESPN.
Eagles signed former Washington LB Zach Brown to a one-year deal.
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) May 3, 2019
Brown is a veteran who should be able to contribute at least some to a team that worked really hard to improve the front seven of the defense. Brown has played 94 games in his career with 74 of those games being starts. In his eighth season, Brown's best year was in 2016 with the Buffalo Bills when he was selected to the Pro Bowl.
Brown is known more of a run stopper and he was ranked well by Pro Football Focus (via the Eagles team website) for his performance last season.
“Brown graded extremely well during the 2018 season with Washington. He ended the campaign with an 89.2 overall grade – a grade that was over 13 points higher than his previous career best – which ranked third among all qualifying off-ball linebackers. His overall grade was the result of high-level play in all facets of the game, and he ended the year as one of only three linebackers (Luke Kuechly and Bobby Wagner being the others) to register a run-defense grade, coverage grade and tackling grade above 80.0.”
“Brown has always shown well as a run defender, so his performance against the ground game in 2018 didn’t really come as a great surprise. Over the last three seasons, Brown has racked up 95 defensive stops against the run, which are the third-most among linebackers in that span, while his three-year run-stop percentage of 9.2 percent and his three-year run-defense grade of 84.7 rank 11th and eighth, respectively, among the 66 linebackers with at least 500 run-defense snaps in that span.”
There is no guarantee that Brown will make the roster, but with a strong training camp this is probably a player the Eagles are going to want to keep around, and there is no doubt if he is healthy he will make the team better, even if he is just a rotational guy.
Follow Us
Subscribe