per Bleeding Green Nation<\/a>, something of a disaster. While nobody has doubted his physical ability since the moment he was drafted\u2014Brown is an extremely aggressive player with the speed to make that work\u2014BGN notes that defensive coordinator Vic Fangio didn\u2019t seem to trust him by late in the season, something they attribute to mental mistakes that also dogged him on special teams. He committed six penalties in that phase a year ago, which is pretty gruesome.<\/p>\nIn Atlanta, Brown is getting a fresh start in the final year of his very affordable rookie deal, with a chance to show a new team that he can be an asset. The Falcons would not have given up anything of value\u2014and while it\u2019s a low price to pay, a pick swap is not nothing\u2014if they didn\u2019t believe Brown can offer more than he\u2019s shown the past couple of seasons in Philadelphia. Jeff Ulbrich will be looking to take a physically gifted defensive back who is still quite young and find a workable role for him, which could come as a reserve at safety or competition at the nickel, where he played heavily in his rookie season. To unlock that potential to even be a high end reserve for Atlanta, something they could certainly use, he\u2019ll need to cut down on missed tackles, special teams penalties, and mental mistakes. I\u2019m certainly hopeful he both can and will, but given the track record and price, this is an upside gamble for the Falcons and far from a sure thing.<\/p>\n
If Brown can deliver value as a reserve safety and nickel, the Falcons will happily hand him a new deal in 2027 when they have more cap space to work with and multiple defensive backs set to hit free agency. If not, he\u2019ll cost them nothing beyond this year either draft-wise or cap-wise.<\/p>\n
Give Brown a warm welcome, and we\u2019ll likely hear from Ulbrich in the not-too-distant future regarding the team\u2019s vision for him in Atlanta.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Atlanta Falcons have pulled off their first trade of the Ian Cunningham era, and it\u2019s aimed at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":824509,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2068],"tags":[2591,2595,25,7,6,242,109,2476],"class_list":{"0":"post-824508","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia-eagles","8":"tag-atlanta-falcons-news","9":"tag-atlanta-falcons-roster","10":"tag-eagles","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-nfl","13":"tag-philadelphia","14":"tag-philadelphia-eagles","15":"tag-philadelphiaeagles"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116265286220715841","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=824508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/824509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}