Everette

Brown

The 43rd overall pick in 2009 by Carolina, the Panthers traded a future first-rounder to nab Brown in the second round that year. Brown played five seasons in the league, notching just seven career sacks with four different teams.

Brown was in for a tryout with a host of other players. The Patriots appear to have transitioned to a 4-3 defense, but will probably keep plenty of 3-4 looks in the playbook. Brown would be best suited as a 3-4 outside ‘backer.

Brown worked out for New England last week, but wasn’t signed. Three of the Titans’ ends (Jason Jones, William Hayes, and Derrick Morgan) are nursing injuries, though they’re all expected back early in the season. The Titans have tried to get bigger in the front four, and Brown (6'1/256) doesn’t fit that approach.

Brown went unclaimed after the Chargers waived him a week ago. The 43rd overall pick in the 2009 draft could be signed to a league-minimum contract as a training camp flier.

The Panthers’ 2009 second-rounder is worth a look-see as a reclamation project under Jim Schwartz and Gunther Cunningham in Detroit. If it works, Brown could go the Aaron Maybin route as a situational pass rusher.

Brown has a second-round pedigree from 2009, but he played fewer than 30 defensive snaps last season. Walters was kept on the roster over Laurent Robinson coming out of training camp last summer.

The No. 43 pick in the 2009 draft, Brown has yet to play this season despite workouts with several teams. In 28 games with the Panthers, Brown recorded 35 tackles and six sacks. The Bolts will move him to outside linebacker, hoping he can provide a situational pass-rushing presence.

Brown’s market has been dead silent since he couldn’t make the Lions out of training camp, but perhaps the soon-to-be rebuilding Eagles are mulling giving him a look down the stretch of a lost season. The 2009 second-round pick has appeared in just three games since 2010, and made only three career starts.

It’s Brown’s fourth workout since he was waived by the Panthers at final cuts. With the Giants on bye this week, no signing is likely imminent, but Brown should be on speed dial in case LE Justin Tuck (neck, groin) can’t give it a go in Week 8.

They join the seven players Philadelphia signed on Monday. A second-round pick of the Panthers in 2009, Brown has appeared in just three games since 2010. Lindley has survived Eagles’ “final cuts’ each of the past two years only to still be waived before Week 1.