The Tennessee Titans are set at linebacker for the next decade if they want to be.
Jayon Brown is heading into his second year and he is easily one of the best young linebackers in the NFL. That isn’t hyperbole or me being a homer, look at what I dug up when researching top, young players in the NFL. Here is how he stacked up with big names like Darius Leonard, Jarrad Davis, Roquan Smith, and Leighton Vander Esch:
“-TFLs: Leonard (12), Davis (10), Brown (8), Smith (8), LVE (2)
-Sacks: Leonard (7), Brown (6), Davis (6), Smith(5), LVE (0)
-Pass deflections: Leonard (8), LVE (7), Brown (6), Davis (5), Smith (5)
-Interceptions: LVE (2), Leonard (2), Brown (1), Smith (1), Davis (0)
So if you convert those to a point system you end up with this ranking, also note the total snaps they played in parenthesis:
1st: Leonard (1,108 snaps)
2nd: Brown (852 snaps)
T-3rd: LVE (893)
T-3rd: Davis (976)
5th: Smith (946)
Brown was behind Leonard by one interception and one sack in those two major categories despite playing 77% as many snaps as Leonard did.