03-19-2024, 11:18 AM
There is no way I want to rely on Brown to start. He has only played 600+ snaps once in the last 5 years.
He graded out super high last year, but remember the Pats were relatively run heavy. And he has usually been a high 60s/low 70s PFF guy most of his career. Not 80.2.
He has experience at LT & RT.
For me, he is a perfect swing tackle to act as a potential bridge starter if the OT you draft at #18 needs a little development (Mims, Guyton). If it is Fuaga or Latham, they probably start day 1 and you have excellent OT depth, which would be a new phenomenon here. You could even try Fuaga/Latham at G if you want.
I know we all have this fantasy about opening up the draft if RT is solved. And it is a good thing. But the reality is need drives most picks (Harrison would go #2 otherwise, or #1) and it is unlikely Bowers falls to us.
Further, it is a dead certainty one of the RT prospects fall to us (Latham, Fuaga, Mims, Guyton). We are 95% taking an OT. The issue is whether it is a plug & play guy (Latham or Fuaga) or a more inexperienced/raw guy (Mims/Guyton). If the former, we take them. If it is the latter? Then maybe trade downs, or another position (JPJ, CB, WR), or Bowers becomes more likely.
But I do not think WR is likely. We have Chase & Higgins. We drafted Yoshi & Jones last year. We have 2 TEs that are basically slot receivers. And it is a deep WR class. We can get slot help later (Pearsall, Wilson, Corly, McCaffery, MacMillan, etc).
CB is intriguing. But we are talking about depth at CB4. CTB, Turner, & Hilton will start. And it looks like Hill is moving to CB with Stone and Bell incoming at S. It is also a fairly deep CB class.
DT with Murphy or Newton was appealing before we gave Rankins $13 mil a year. Hill gets $10. DT3 at #18 seems like a luxury we cannot afford with the other holes. Way too high for Sweat.
JPJ to boost the IOL? Maybe. Trade down if Fuaga & Latham gone? Maybe. Bowers if he is there? Yeah, I could dig that. But it is unlikely he lasts.
Sit at #18.Take RT. Worry about NT, WR3, CB4 on Day 2 and in the rest of FA.
Brown + another solid FA signing or two (WR, CB, IOL, NT2, LB, P).
He graded out super high last year, but remember the Pats were relatively run heavy. And he has usually been a high 60s/low 70s PFF guy most of his career. Not 80.2.
He has experience at LT & RT.
For me, he is a perfect swing tackle to act as a potential bridge starter if the OT you draft at #18 needs a little development (Mims, Guyton). If it is Fuaga or Latham, they probably start day 1 and you have excellent OT depth, which would be a new phenomenon here. You could even try Fuaga/Latham at G if you want.
I know we all have this fantasy about opening up the draft if RT is solved. And it is a good thing. But the reality is need drives most picks (Harrison would go #2 otherwise, or #1) and it is unlikely Bowers falls to us.
Further, it is a dead certainty one of the RT prospects fall to us (Latham, Fuaga, Mims, Guyton). We are 95% taking an OT. The issue is whether it is a plug & play guy (Latham or Fuaga) or a more inexperienced/raw guy (Mims/Guyton). If the former, we take them. If it is the latter? Then maybe trade downs, or another position (JPJ, CB, WR), or Bowers becomes more likely.
But I do not think WR is likely. We have Chase & Higgins. We drafted Yoshi & Jones last year. We have 2 TEs that are basically slot receivers. And it is a deep WR class. We can get slot help later (Pearsall, Wilson, Corly, McCaffery, MacMillan, etc).
CB is intriguing. But we are talking about depth at CB4. CTB, Turner, & Hilton will start. And it looks like Hill is moving to CB with Stone and Bell incoming at S. It is also a fairly deep CB class.
DT with Murphy or Newton was appealing before we gave Rankins $13 mil a year. Hill gets $10. DT3 at #18 seems like a luxury we cannot afford with the other holes. Way too high for Sweat.
JPJ to boost the IOL? Maybe. Trade down if Fuaga & Latham gone? Maybe. Bowers if he is there? Yeah, I could dig that. But it is unlikely he lasts.
Sit at #18.Take RT. Worry about NT, WR3, CB4 on Day 2 and in the rest of FA.
Brown + another solid FA signing or two (WR, CB, IOL, NT2, LB, P).
