Cards Get Edge Rusher Baron Browning From Broncos

[Cardinal88]

Is availability a stat? I think that is the biggest concern. He needs to be available to take the field. A healthy Browning, I'll take due to his athleticism speed. I don't think he will be much of a factor this week because Rodgers will do everything in his power to stay our of 3rd and long situations.

 

[kerouac9]

Is availability a stat? I think that is the biggest concern. He needs to be available to take the field. A healthy Browning, I'll take due to his athleticism speed. I don't think he will be much of a factor this week because Rodgers will do everything in his power to stay our of 3rd and long situations.

The most important ability is availability. He's played 43 games in 3.5 seasons, including 28 starts and two trips to IR.

Missed one game his rookie season with a back injury
Missed three games his second year with a hip and then a back
Missed three more last year with a knee and then concussion
Already been on IR once this season with a foot injury(?)

 

[gmabel830]

Side note: I once found an old county map showing the land my high school is on was once owned by Baron von Stuben. How we were not called the Barons is beyond me!

I did basically a mini-dissertation on this guy my senior year of high school as part of an honors magnet program I was in. Haven't heard his name in forever!

It was a research paper, and if I recall correctly, amounted to a debate on whether he is one of the most underappreciated people in our country's history or just a hired gun who played his part for the cause in the Revolutionary War.

 

[CardNots]

The most important ability is availability. He's played 43 games in 3.5 seasons, including 28 starts and two trips to IR.

Missed one game his rookie season with a back injury
Missed three games his second year with a hip and then a back
Missed three more last year with a knee and then concussion
Already been on IR once this season with a foot injury(?)

so he hasn’t had an “out for the season” early in the season yet.

 

[kerouac9]

so he hasn’t had an “out for the season” early in the season yet.

I think he started the 2023 season on IR/PUP.

 

[MadCardDisease]

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Cardinals add pass-rushing help with OLB Browning​

Arizona Cardinals get: OLB Baron Browning
Denver Broncos get: 2025 sixth-round pick
Trade date: Nov. 4

Grade for the Cardinals: B
Grade for the Broncos: B

The Cardinals needed some pass-rush help. Arizona ranks 31st in pass rush win rate (28%) and recently lost Dennis Gardeck for the season to a torn ACL after previously losing BJ Ojulari -- also to a knee injury -- before the season began.

Browning has had injury issues of his own and was on IR earlier this season for a foot injury. But in acquiring him, Arizona lands a player who can presumably start right away at edge. Browning has an average 16% pass rush win rate at edge in a small sample this season and has a 13% pass rush win rate at the position over the course of his career. He does not have a sack this season but racked up 9.5 combined sacks over 24 games the past two seasons. That makes him a likely upgrade for the Cardinals over Mack Wilson Sr., who has a 7% pass rush win rate and one sack this season.

A Browning-Zaven Collins pairing isn't that frightening to opponents, but it is better than what the Cardinals had in the first half of the season. Arizona doesn't figure to be a true contender, but it is currently in first place in the NFC West and has a 49% chance to reach the playoffs, according to ESPN's Football Power Index. So I don't mind the Cardinals making a small addition to mitigate a major weakness.

Browning is a rental, as he'll be a free agent after this season. That's partly why it's also logical for the Broncos to deal him even though they, too, have a viable chance to make the playoffs (36%). The Broncos also don't need Browning to start on the edge, as they have Jonathon Cooper (whom they signed to a four-year extension Monday) and Nik Bonitto, so Browning is worth more to Arizona than to Denver.

The Broncos have a lot of cap room next year (as does Arizona), so there was a pretty good chance they would not have received a compensatory pick had Browning left in free agency.