The Texans are continuing their offensive line overhaul by signing offensive tackle Trent Brown to a one-year deal, per ESPN’s Adam Schefter.
Brown’s deal is worth up to $3MM. He opened the 2024 season as the Bengals’ starting right tackle before tearing his patellar tendon in Week 3. The 31-year-old has a lengthy injury history, with just three fully-healthy seasons in his 10-year career. Brown has been an effective tackle when he is able to play and has plenty of experience at both tackle spots. His experience and versatility will be valuable in a Texans offense that has gone through major renovations this offseason.
In the past two weeks, Houston has traded starting left tackle Laremy Tunsil to the Eagles and starting right guard Kenyon Green to the Commanders. The team then signed Cam Robinson to replace Tunsil and Laken Tomlinson to replace Green.
Brown will figure into the new unit as well. He could compete with Tytus Howard and Blake Fisher to start at right tackle. If Brown doesn’t win that job, he will likely enter the season as the Texans’ swing tackle.
Originally a 49ers seventh-round pick in 2015, Brown has multiple connections to the Texans coaching staff. Head coach DeMeco Ryans began his coaching career with the 49ers in 2017, Brown’s last year in San Francisco. He was then traded to the Patriots, where now-Texans offensive coordinator Nick Caley was the tight ends coach from 2017 to 2022. Brown signed with the Raiders in 2018, but was traded back to New England in 2021, reuniting him with Caley.
Stay hot Lynch and Shanahan. You stink
Wait, you’re mad at them for NOT signing the guy who could only play 149 snaps last year and has managed to be a decent starter one time in the last five years?
No. I’m mad at them because they’ve always operated under the assumption that having a good offensive line isn’t needed to win it all. Well, they haven’t won it all, and they continue to operate the same way. Isn’t the definition of insanity doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results?
What does that have to do with the remains of Trent Brown?
Wrong Trent brown
Not a great sign when your roster’s biggest problem is the offensive line and your answers are guys the Seahawks, Jaguars, and Bengals weren’t interested in keeping around.
Trent Brown played like a wounded water buffalo last year. He looked overweight and disinterested. Not a good combination.
Not an uncommon one with him.
Good luck Texans fans but as a bengals fan if you guys are getting our castoffs things have gone wrong because lord knows if you end up Cincinnati your near rock bottom
Right. Yeah Whitworth and Ziegler really sucked just like Willie Anderson. Bruce Kozerski was really terrible and come to think of it so was Joe Walter. How could we leave out the duo of Max Montoya and Blair Bush. Or how about the king of all draft busts, one Anthony Munoz. Yeah, everybody knows Cincinnati ALWAYS has the worst offensive lineman.
I was talking about from last year’s team and guys the Bengals were willing to let walk. Obviously I don’t mean the whole history of these teams.
I was making the comment to CR4, not you brother. He was crabbing about how if the Bengals drop an offensive lineman they are so bad they can’t play for anyone else, and how the Bengals never have good lineman.
Gotcha. But in the current iteration, he kinda has a point. (I like Orlando Brown and believe in Mims, but those guys aren’t hitting the street.)
Hopefully not. But I have all confidence in Cody Ford…… Sorry, I can’t say that with a straight face. Just sign Scherff already. Hopefully this Lucas Patrick will turn out to be a late bloomer. I wish they had just swallowed their pride and signed Zeitler.
If you’d earnestly said that about Cody Ford I’d be genuinely concerned about your cognitive health.
Tunsil to the Commanders
@author- Tunsil went to the commanders and green to the eagles..