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For the next few weeks, though, Brown is putting any future coaching plans on hold while he and agent Darren Deloach explore his pro football prospects — almost surely with a team other than the Colts.
“I would happy to go back with (Indianapolis), but I don’t expect them to be one of the teams interested in me,” Brown said. “I had heard the Cowboys and the Ravens and the Commanders were all speaking to my agent, but I haven’t heard from them lately.”
Deloach, a Dallas-based agent who has handled Brown since just after his graduation from ECU, said Saturday that Baltimore and Washington don’t appear to be possibilities for Brown any longer, but he added that he expects his client to latch on somewhere after NFL training camps open later this month.
“The Ravens said they were pretty well set at defensive end, and the Commanders decided to add another wide receiver instead of a defensive end,” Deloach explained. “A lot of teams will make decisions just before camp begins.
“We’re going to get in somewhere,” he predicted. “It might be after camp begins, but we’re going to get an opportunity.”
Despite his success in college and his near-miss with the Colts in 2005, Brown has always been a little bit undersized (6-4, 265) to be an NFL lineman. His speed (4.6 in the 40) could give him some other options, however, including playing linebacker at the next level.
“Justin ran a 4.6 for the Colts, but they don’t like to share information with anybody, so they put him down as a 4.8,” Deloach recalled. “The other teams didn’t do their homework and just went off what the Colts had, no matter what I told them.
“His size has always been a concern for teams in not considering him an every-down defensive lineman, so we’re trying to make something happen with a team that runs a 3-4 scheme,” he said. “Only nine (NFL) teams are running the 3-4 as their base defense, but everyone incorporates the 3-4 into their defensive scheme. We just have to find someone who will give us an opportunity.”
Although he started at defensive end for Frankfurt during the last two NFL Europe seasons, Brown said the Galaxy’s defensive coaches gave him some freedom to play off the line of scrimmage at times — something that should pay dividends if he gets a chance to play linebacker as a pro.
“The defensive scheme we had let me stand up and drop into zone coverage,” Brown said. “I made a few plays out of that, so if teams were looking at me as a linebacker-type, that has to be helpful.
“A lot of times I would line up as a linebacker and blitz, and the other end we had was kind of undersized, too, so we would both drop into coverage,” he added. “I’m confident that if I have to go play linebacker somewhere now, I could pick it up pretty quick.”
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For the next few weeks, though, Brown is putting any future coaching plans on hold while he and agent Darren Deloach explore his pro football prospects — almost surely with a team other than the Colts.
“I would happy to go back with (Indianapolis), but I don’t expect them to be one of the teams interested in me,” Brown said. “I had heard the Cowboys and the Ravens and the Commanders were all speaking to my agent, but I haven’t heard from them lately.”
Deloach, a Dallas-based agent who has handled Brown since just after his graduation from ECU, said Saturday that Baltimore and Washington don’t appear to be possibilities for Brown any longer, but he added that he expects his client to latch on somewhere after NFL training camps open later this month.
“The Ravens said they were pretty well set at defensive end, and the Commanders decided to add another wide receiver instead of a defensive end,” Deloach explained. “A lot of teams will make decisions just before camp begins.
“We’re going to get in somewhere,” he predicted. “It might be after camp begins, but we’re going to get an opportunity.”
Despite his success in college and his near-miss with the Colts in 2005, Brown has always been a little bit undersized (6-4, 265) to be an NFL lineman. His speed (4.6 in the 40) could give him some other options, however, including playing linebacker at the next level.
“Justin ran a 4.6 for the Colts, but they don’t like to share information with anybody, so they put him down as a 4.8,” Deloach recalled. “The other teams didn’t do their homework and just went off what the Colts had, no matter what I told them.
“His size has always been a concern for teams in not considering him an every-down defensive lineman, so we’re trying to make something happen with a team that runs a 3-4 scheme,” he said. “Only nine (NFL) teams are running the 3-4 as their base defense, but everyone incorporates the 3-4 into their defensive scheme. We just have to find someone who will give us an opportunity.”
Although he started at defensive end for Frankfurt during the last two NFL Europe seasons, Brown said the Galaxy’s defensive coaches gave him some freedom to play off the line of scrimmage at times — something that should pay dividends if he gets a chance to play linebacker as a pro.
“The defensive scheme we had let me stand up and drop into zone coverage,” Brown said. “I made a few plays out of that, so if teams were looking at me as a linebacker-type, that has to be helpful.
“A lot of times I would line up as a linebacker and blitz, and the other end we had was kind of undersized, too, so we would both drop into coverage,” he added. “I’m confident that if I have to go play linebacker somewhere now, I could pick it up pretty quick.”
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