J.J. Watt is out for what will likely be the remainder of the season with a back injury. Khalil Mack has been a lot quieter than anybody expected. The race for the league’s best defender is wide open.
After another monster game, including 18 total tackles and a sack, Brown is the NFL’s leader in tackles, and he’s up 11 on anybody not named Luke Kuechly. National awards require national recognition, so it would help a great deal if the Bills kept winning and putting up strong across-the-board performances defensively, but has there been a better defender in the league over the first four weeks of the season?