John Brown is going to Las Vegas. On Wednesday, the wide receiver agreed to a one-year, $3.75MM deal with the Raiders, as Adam Caplan of SiriusXM tweets. 
Brown will help replace Nelson Agholor, who inked a surprisingly lucrative deal with the Patriots. The Raiders are also down Tyrell Williams, who was cut early on in the offseason. Brown will come into camp as a supporting member of the new-look group, which includes Henry Ruggs, Hunter Renfrow, and Bryan Edwards.
In 2019, Brown’s first season with the Bills, he managed new career highs of 72 catches for 1,060 receiving yards. Last year, he was limited just nine games and finished with a 33/458/3 stat line. The Bills went on to release him, saving nearly $8MM against the 2021 salary cap.
I (as well as most raiders fans) would love to hear from Gruden about what his plan is. This is a nice move but how many damn rebuilds do we need to go through. We’re an ascending team who’s stalled out, I’m not sure why we would trash 80% of our offensive line. But hey, we got John Brown.
Gruden is an awful head coach. The problem starts at the top
The plan is improving the team for the future. Incognito is 37, Hudson is 32. Both players are declining. Have you heard of getting younger? Hudson is overrated and not worth his salary. Get over it. John brown is better then agholor. Brown was released. So it won’t negatively cost us a comp. pick. Right. Is we are looking at a condo pick for McKinley, booker, Collins. Agholor and yannnick are a wash. 3 additional draft picks next year. This is how it’s done.
Lol. Are you Gruden’s son doing his talking? I don’t disagree with anything you say but cutting Hudson doesn’t make sense nor does it save us money.
Hudson is any good. He’s overrated by raider fans. Raider fans think he is the best center in football. 31 other teams agree with me that he isn’t. He gets pushed around and dominated in the run game. How many times have you seen him three yards in the backfield on 3rd and short? Too many to count. He isn’t worth the salary and he can’t get a draft pick. That equals he isn’t as good as raider fans think
Hudson is most certainly NOT overrated, and you’d not be saying that if he hadn’t been cut. Most importantly, he saves the Raiders no money, so cutting this year (while he’s still a good player, overrated or not) is nonsensical. If they wanted to “get younger”, they could have easily done so next year with a replacement in place or in a year when they do not have to replace their entire line. Your argument could make sense conceptually, but it falls apart when it asks us to assume that Rodney Hudson is overrated and is better off the team for no savings. The only thing worse than being closed to change is forcing it.
@paly- that might be the plan, but the execution has been a mess.
Hudson is a good center. Yes he’s 32, but it’s not as if they have a younger or better option waiting in the wings.
They need to replace 4/5ths of a starting OL because of this “plan” they have. That’s a problem. OL aren’t cheap, and this regime doesn’t draft well.
So, yeah, adding Brown is nice; but how is Carr going to find time to get him the ball? Everything starts with the O-line, and it’s in shambles. They’re just swapping weaknesses, and this new one is harder to compensate for.
The picks don’t matter because they don’t know how to draft. They could have 40, they’d probably mess them all up.
Gruden is clueless.
How’s Carr going to throw the ball when to any receiver when he pro either running for his life or laying on the ground on his back. With no protection
Heading into the 2020 season the O-Line was look at as the strong point of the team. The one fact that no one has mentioned is that that same starting O-Line played a total of 4 snaps together last season.
Yes, time to get younger and more consistent production from the O-Line.
Gruden/Mayock have done nothing here to instill any confidence in getting the Silver and Black back to glory.
Mistake after mistake personnel wise (free agents, draft, and trades) have left the team worse off than when they took over.
In previous years, they have had MORE money to spend and MORE multiple high draft picks and have floundered the decisions they made.
With LESS to spend and LESS high draft picks, I am not optimistic that things will get better.
After the dust settles on the moves that will be made now and until after the draft is over and we know our picks, I am afraid that we will be once again underwhelmed.
Same as it ever was!
really… how nice is this move?? John Brown is not all that good.
It’s 3.5 million for 1 year
Brown is not that good? As a Bills fan who watched him play the last two seasons, he was money. If not for his cap hit and having less costly options available, including recent draft picks, I’m sure they would have loved to keep him on the Buffalo roster. Was a 1000 yard player in 2019, down a bit in 2020 due to injury and Stephon Diggs getting a share of the throws.
Seems to me if that’s all the money it took that’s a better investment than Emmanuel Sanders for Buffalo.
Brown’s cap hit to Buffalo was nearly 8 mill. Great player but he didn’t want to restructure, so now he’s making half. He was expendable and they got Sanders cheaper.
Right. But they could’ve gotten someone who already knows the system and Allen for 2 mil less.
I love how every raider fan hates agholor signing for the vet minimum last year. And how that he left every single fan thinks he’s a #1 receiver. Agholor had a nice season but he was never a #1 Receiver. Brown is an nfl recover had will also have a nice season. Then he will walk next year and we get a comp pick.
A comp pick they’ll undoubtedly waste because they can’t draft, so it essentially has no value.