DawgTalkers.net Forums DawgTalk Pure Football Forum What Now Pt. 2

I've thought about your opinion of signing a OT in free agency so I've taken a look at the potential OT's that may be on the FA market if they aren't re-signed by the deadline. Sadly they look like low hanging fruit. I know the bar isn't that high at making marginal improvement on the OL at some positions, the OT spots being two of them, but I'm not seeing anything out there that says "We need to get that guy".

If the Browns only signed one outside free agent this year, I would want it to be Rasheed Walker. That would allow them to target interior and RT in the draft if Jones isn’t going to be ready to move back over to the right side where he has thrived at times.

I don’t see another free agent that will make as much of an impact.

Browns must avoid NFL free agency pitfall of signing Rasheed Walker

https://brownswire.usatoday.com/sto...ency-pitfall-rasheed-walker/88796979007/

Competiton among NFL teams for OT's is fierce. Rarely is a good one let go. If you look at the top 20 rated LT's all but one of them was re-signed last year.

What you will have are teams competing for the services of a less than average LT at top tier LT prices.

He is ranked 41st in overall pass-block grade (70.0) and his 2025 overall PFF grade was 52nd among 89 tackles.

Those are reasons he made it to the FA market to begin with.

First problem is citing PFF. Many of their attributes that make up their player grades are subjective. One glaring grade that isn’t was pass protection, which he had a 93.7% success rate in 2025, 11th best in the league. He has started every down over the past two seasons on a team that ranks 7th in sacks allowed.

You are also citing an article that suggests they not only spend one pick on a left tackle in the 2026 draft, but 2 of their first 3 picks on a left tackle in a draft that many consider to be a draft without a true left tackle with a future starter grade. Were you a big fan of Jedrick Wills? He was a right tackle that the Browns drafted to play left tackle and it showed horrendously. I’m not 100% against drafting an offensive lineman at #6, this was a really bad offensive line, but don’t draft a left tackle there, because there isn’t one to draft. Expect him to play right tackle and move on.

There are only so many players in the NFL that play the position high enough to not be considered every year as a player that needs to be replaced in order to improve.

I don’t think the Packers are going to let go of Walker easily, and we will have to over pay, but I would rather over pay and give Sanders a fighting chance to grow into this offense. If you hire another open gate at the LT position, he will fail before he ever starts. Walker gives him the best chance to succeed, whether it’s a veteran free agent or draft pick. If Bitonio has a relevant LT, he would play at the level we are used to. He had to do so much to cover up inadequate play, that he looked bad for the first time in his career. Draft some of these interior lineman that look like future starters and one of the RTs that might have to step in if Jones isn’t ready to come back.

That’s my two cents

I never at any point suggested the Browns spend two picks to draft a LT. As for stating that he "started every down for the Packers over the past two seasons and only allowed 7 sacks."

That is a convenient stat yet this past season the Packers gave up 29 sacks. What is painfully obvious is the Packers have even weaker players on their OL which their opponents use to exploit to get sacks.

I see you didn't propose any information, facts or statistics to counter the stats I posted. There's a reason for that. Instead you just shot the messenger. A very popular tactic these days.

We both want to see the LT position improved to help whoever it is playing QB. We just disagree that Walker is the answer to do that.

He didn't say you did. Maybe read again.

Me in particular? Or that I'm promoting the idea through my choice of sources? I mean he the went on to attack the source I was using in reference to PFF


As you would say, I guess since it lacks DNA evidence it must not have happened.