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Originally Posted by Hammock Parties
Give us the pass blocking grades for the OL bud.
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Left to Right (OBJ, Thuney, Humphrey, Smith, Niang)
70.8 -- 81.4 -- 70.6 -- 66.5 -- 58.2
Brown's right around the top 20 of full time starting tackles, some of whom are RTs. To whatever extent you care about PFF, he's in the same tier as guys like Garrett Boles, Jason Peters, Lane Johnson, Taylor Lewan, Isaiah Wynn, Cam Robinson and Taylor Moton.
He's been fine. Maybe a little above average, maybe a little below average - whatever the case may be, he's firmly in the 'solid veteran LT' tier. He's had some bad snaps and some good ones.
There's an interesting alternative option in Samuel Cosmi who I really liked in this draft. The Chiefs could've taken him with their 1st rounder instead of dealing it for Brown and he's had a solid season thus far. But really, they'd have probably gone with Teven Jenkins and he's already showing back problems (bad bad bad news for young OL). Setting aside the long-term ramifications, the near term impact of that is running Niang out there at LT this year and I just don't know how we can say that's prefereable to what we've seen with Brown.
This is just a non-starter of an argument. There's no rational basis to conclude that Brown's been a bad player or that this was a bad trade.