Brandon Graham Is Risk Worth Taking as NFL Free Agent

March 8, 2015   ·   Cian Fahey   ·   Jump to comments

It would be easy not to know Brandon Graham. In fact, at this point, there is little reason to know the Philadelphia Eagles defender.
Graham has been in the NFL for five seasons. He has been active on game day 64 times during his career, but only 13 of those appearances were starts. At 26 years of age, Graham has just 121 total tackles in his career with 17 sacks and nine forced fumbles.
By all statistical measures, he is an unspectacular NFL player—actually, an unspectacular NFL free agent.
The Eagles were expecting much more from Graham when they drafted him in 2010. While at Michigan, the edge-defender excelled at making plays behind the line of scrimmage. During his final two seasons in college, he had 20.5 sacks and 46 tackles for loss.
He was so productive and so physically talented that head coach Andy Reid's Eagles were willing to select him as the 13th overall player in the draft.
Despite going that high in the draft, Graham was primarily us...

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