Player
Montaric Brown
DB · Jaguars
Montaric Brown: facts drawn from the play-by-play.
From 4 rookie tackles to 47 tackles + 12 PDs in 2025 — full reclamation arc inside 4 seasons.
TrendBrown by season (all Jaguars)
| Season | Tackles | Asst | TFL | PDs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 (R) | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 23 | 9 | 0 | 4 |
| 2024 | 52 | 20 | 6 | 8 |
| 2025 | 47 | 10 | 0 | 12 |
Brown was a 7th-round pick (No. 222 overall) in 2022 who spent his rookie year as a special-teamer with 4 defensive tackles. Three seasons later, he's been a starter for back-to-back years.
The step function from 23 → 52 → 47 tackles is the snap-count climb. The 12 PDs in 2025 is the headline — that's a top-15 NFL number among corners in a single season, no matter the draft slot.
Pass deflections by season
| Season | PDs |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 0 |
| 2023 | 4 |
| 2024 | 8 |
| 2025 | 12 |
12 pass deflections in 2025 — more than he had across his first 3 seasons combined.
RareBrown's career PD line by year: 0, 4, 8, 12. The 2025 number alone (12) exceeds his first three seasons combined (also 12). A doubled coverage profile in a single year, while sustaining a 47-tackle starter workload.
The one number missing from the corner profile: 0 career interceptions. PD-to-INT conversion is the next-step ceiling number that turns a contract-year breakout into a Pro Bowl case.
6 TFL in 2024 — and 0 in 2025. The run support number reset entirely.
SplitIn 2024, Brown had 6 TFL — uncommon for a perimeter CB, suggesting heavy nickel/blitz usage or strong run-fit work. In 2025, that bucket dropped to 0 while his coverage volume (PDs) climbed to 12.
The profile shift: from hybrid box-edge defender to pure coverage corner between Year 3 and Year 4. The Jaguars' DC change (Anthony Campanile in 2025) plays through clearly in those numbers.
126 career tackles, 24 PDs, 6 TFL — without ever leaving Jacksonville since the 7th-round pick.
MilestoneBrown is the rare 7th-round CB who stuck on the team that drafted him through his rookie contract. 126 career tackles, 41 assists, 6 TFL, 24 PDs across 4 Jaguars seasons. No interceptions yet — but the ball-skill volume (24 PDs) suggests the INT count is undersized rather than absent.
For a player who would have been a candidate to get cut after a 4-tackle rookie year, he is now the team's most-played outside corner on a defense rebuilding under new ownership-led leadership.
12 PDs in 2025 — same number Jaire Alexander posted in his All-Pro 2022 season.
ComparisonPass deflection volume is a noisy stat (depends on targets), but 12 PDs matches what Jaire Alexander posted in 2022 (his second-team All-Pro year). Brown is not in that tier of corner — but the volume signals he was targeted often and won often enough to bat 12 balls down.
The usable read: he is a starting-caliber outside corner playing on a 7th-round-pick salary. That's a Day 3 hit by any measure.
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