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Skins Re-Sign LB Zach Brown

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March 15, 2018


REDSKINS RE-SIGN LB ZACH BROWN


LOUDOUN COUNTY, Va. – The Washington Redskins announced today that they have re-signed linebacker Zach Brown. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Brown (6-1, 251) originally entered the NFL as a second-round pick (No. 52 overall) of the Tennessee Titans in the 2012 NFL Draft. In six NFL seasons with the Titans (2012-15), Buffalo Bills (2016) and Redskins (2017), Brown has appeared in 78 career regular season games with 62 starts, compiling 535 career tackles (375 solo), 19 passes defensed, 16.5 sacks, seven interceptions (including two returned for touchdowns), four forced fumbles and three fumble recoveries.

Last season, Brown started all 13 games in which he played for Washington, posting a team-high 127 tackles (84 solo). Despite playing only 13 games, he finished ninth in the NFL in tackles, the highest ranking by a member of the Redskins since London Fletcher tied for seventh in 2012. In 2016, Brown started all 16 games for Buffalo and led the AFC with 149 tackles (97 solo), second-most in the NFL en route to earning his first career Pro Bowl selection.

Brown played collegiately at North Carolina, starting 23 of the 47 games in which he appeared for the Tar Heels. He recorded 230 career tackles (19 for loss), seven interceptions, 5.5 sacks, four passes defensed, three forced fumbles and a fumble recovery.

Brown, 28, attended Wilde Lake H.S. in Columbia, Md., where he earned All-Howard County honors as a senior after rushing for 1,537 yards and 20 touchdowns in addition to collecting more than 90 solo tackles. He was born Oct. 23, 1989.


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If the Redskins had panicked and made a move to negotiate against themselves to get Brown signed on Day 1 of free agency
they would have ended up paying him as much as $3M a year more than the final contract calls for.

Fans who constantly criticize the team for not playing things out smartly in re personnel and the cap should tip their caps on this one.
 
Here is a signing I am pleased to see. He obviously made a difference on the team. But I have to question why he did not have much success on the open market.
 
From reports, he wanted $11-$13M a year which he was not going to get as an ILB.

These days you almost invariably have to be a pass rusher in the front seven to get that type of deal.

Anthony Hitchens, a player who even Cowboys fans admit is a lesser player than Brown, got $9M a year with more guaranteed money from the Chiefs.

It was a strange move for Reid, who usually comes up with some good trades and free agent signings each year.

That and the Marcus Peters trade have me wondering if Reid is becoming too desperate after failing to win a SB in 16 years of coaching.
 

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