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Ravens trade Pro Bowl OT Orlando Brown to Chiefs for haul of draft picks

By Zac Wassink | Last updated 4/23/21

ESPN's Adam Schefter reports that the Kansas City Chiefs are trading their first-round pick for the upcoming NFL Draft that opens Thursday, as well as three other selections for the 2021 and 2022 drafts, for Baltimore Ravens offensive tackle Orlando Brown.

Kansas City gets:
OT Orlando Brown
2021 second-round pick (No. 58)
2022 6th round pick.

Baltimore gets:
2021 first-round pick (No. 31)
third-round pick (No. 94)
fourth-round pick (No. 136)
2022 fifth-round pick
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) April 23, 2021

With today’s trade of Orlando Brown to KC, Baltimore now will have the 27th and 31st overall picks Thursday night.
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) April 23, 2021

Brown requested a trade from Baltimore so he could play left tackle full-time, but he may want to rent in his new city before he buys. Schefter added that Brown, who is on the last year of his current contract, does not yet have a new agreement with Kansas City.

Orlando Brown and the Chiefs now will set out to negotiate a contract extension that wasn’t going to get done with the Ravens. Brown is entering the last year of his contract but does not have a new deal waiting in Kansas City. pic.twitter.com/bJa9WJkxeI
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) April 23, 2021

Meanwhile, reports surfaced earlier this week that former Pittsburgh Steelers tackle Alejandro Villanueva would be visiting the Ravens.

By trading Orlando Brown to Chiefs, Ravens is expected to replace him at right tackle with Alejandro Villanueva.

Deal likely won't become official until after draft, but Villanueva visited Ravens on Thursday.

So, Ravens add some picks and won't have much dropoff with Villanueva
— Jamison Hensley (@jamisonhensley) April 23, 2021

"He’s graded between 74.0 and 82.0 in each of his last five seasons; he ranks in the 54th percentile in PFF pass-blocking grade and the 46th percentile in pass-blocking grade on true pass sets during that time," Pro Football Focus explains about Villanueva.

Brown, meanwhile, earned Pro Bowl nods in each of the past two seasons and will now be tasked with protecting one-time Super Bowl Most Valuable Player Patrick Mahomes.

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