Veteran offensive sort out Trent Brown signed a one-year contract with the Cincinnati Bengals on Tuesday, the crew introduced.
Brown will pair with Orlando Brown Jr. to offer the Bengals bookend tackles to guard star quarterback Joe Burrow.
The Bengals had a emptiness on their offensive line after offensive sort out Jonah Williams agreed to a contract with the Arizona Cardinals final week.
Trent Brown mentioned throughout a media availability Tuesday that match and having fun with coming to work every day have been two huge elements that led him to signal with the Bengals. He advised reporters he noticed Bengals heart Ted Karras, his former teammate with the New England Patriots, sitting within the sizzling tub within the Bengals’ facility, which spoke volumes about Cincinnati’s tradition.
“That was an enormous factor proper there,” Brown mentioned. “Simply being the place we got here from, the place folks would get out of there for a launch any likelihood we had.”
Brown additionally mentioned not having to fret about “off-the-field issues” will assist him get again to the Professional Bowl type he confirmed in 2019 as a member of the Las Vegas Raiders.
“I am going to be capable to simply take pleasure in coming to work on a day-to-day foundation,” mentioned Brown, who declined to enter specifics when requested about it. “And that was vital as nicely once we discuss match.”
Brown, 6-foot-8 and 370 kilos, enters his tenth NFL season and has performed in 100 profession regular-season video games, with 93 begins. He has began 51 video games at proper sort out and 42 at left sort out.
Brown had been enjoying at a excessive degree at left sort out for the Patriots final season earlier than injuring his ankle in an Oct. 22 win over the Buffalo Payments after which trying to play by means of it the subsequent week in a loss to the Miami Dolphins. He began just one extra recreation the rest of the season, having fallen out of favor, whereas publicly expressing his displeasure with the group.
Brown’s greatest season as a professional got here in 2018 with the Patriots, when he began each recreation at left sort out throughout a Tremendous Bowl championship season. He parlayed that right into a four-year, $66 million free agent contract with the Raiders, however, after two injury-filled seasons, Las Vegas traded him again to New England in 2021.
Brown, who entered the NFL as a seventh-round draft alternative of the San Francisco 49ers in 2015, will flip 31 on April 13.
ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler, Ben Child and Mike Reiss contributed to this report.