{"id":189736,"date":"2026-03-13T05:02:03","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T05:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/189736\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T05:02:03","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T05:02:03","slug":"bengals-extend-lt-orlando-brown-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/189736\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengals Extend LT Orlando Brown Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"

Orlando Brown Jr.<\/a>\u00a0is no longer in a contract year. Given a four-year deal in 2023, the former Super Bowl left tackle starter will now see his Bengals accord stretched for an additional season.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Cincinnati gave the veteran LT a two-year extension Thursday, according to a team announcement. This stands to lower Brown\u2019s $21.99MM 2026 cap number. Brown was tied to a four-year, $64.1MM contract<\/a>, but he is now signed through the 2028 season. Brown said (via ESPN.com\u2019s Ben Baby<\/a>) he negotiated the deal himself.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Blackburn family and the Brown family made this a smooth negotiation,\u201d Brown said. \u201cThe deal creates a sense of stability for myself and the organization. I didn\u2019t necessarily feel the need to reset the market. We have great players in this locker room. It\u2019s rare for a player to say, but making it team-friendly \u2026 The way that I see it, it puts me and my family and the organization in a good spot.\u201d<\/p>\n

This mindset appears to differ from how Brown landed in Cincinnati. The Chiefs franchise-tagged their Super Bowl LVII left tackle in 2022 and offered him a top-market contract, but Kansas City\u2019s six-year proposal \u2014 which matched the Trent Williams<\/a> 49ers term length \u2014 did not meet Brown\u2019s guarantee ask<\/a>. Players have increasingly turned to shorter-term contracts as the cap keeps rising, and Brown rejected Kansas City\u2019s proposal. After playing the 2022 season on the tag, he wound up in Cincinnati via free agency.<\/p>\n

The Bengals have been unable to approach their early-2020s heights during Brown\u2019s time in the Queen City, with Joe Burrow<\/a> injury trouble and a defensive regression defining a tough three-year stretch for the franchise. During that span, however, Brown has started 45 games. The second-generation NFL tackle has not played at a Pro Bowl level \u2014 where he was in Baltimore and Kansas City \u2014 and Pro Football Focus has yet to rank him as a top-40 tackle during a Bengals season. But ESPN\u2019s run block win rate metric did slot the veteran eighth overall among tackles last season.<\/p>\n

PFF ranked Brown 66th and 60th among qualified options at tackle in 2024 and \u201925, respectively, and Brown missed six games due to injury during his second Bengals season. A Pro Bowler at right tackle in Baltimore and left tackle in Kansas City, Brown is heading into an age-30 season. Brown supplanted Jonah Williams<\/a> in 2023, sliding the former first-rounder to the right side (where he stayed upon signing with the Cardinals). This contract places Brown on track to become the longest-tenured Bengals LT since Andrew Whitworth, though the guarantees will be important to see on that front.<\/p>\n

Cincinnati has been proactive with extensions for linemen in recent years, twice giving center Ted Karras<\/a> new deals and shrewdly extending Trey Hendrickson<\/a> (one year, $21MM) in 2023. The latter pact became a point of contention, and Hendrickson has since defected to the Ravens after a yearslong negotiating saga to close out his Bengals tenure.<\/p>\n

Although the Bengals\u2019 O-line has taken criticism in recent years \u2014 as Burrow has failed to stay healthy \u2014 the team looks set to run back its 2025 front five after re-signing right guard Dalton Risner<\/a>. The veteran guard has consistently struggled to command even midlevel deals in free agency, and this year was no exception. Risner\u2019s one-year Bengals deal<\/a> carries a $3.25MM base value, KPRC2\u2019s Aaron Wilson tweets<\/a>. Via a $1.75MM playtime incentive, Risner\u2019s accord can max out at $5MM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Orlando Brown Jr.\u00a0is no longer in a contract year. Given a four-year deal in 2023, the former Super…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189737,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[13227,88447,139,45457,141,140,15995],"class_list":["post-189736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-cincinnati-bengals","tag-dalton-risner","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-brown","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-transactions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}