Patriots Pulse Blog: The Patriots Not Picking Up the Fifth Year Options on Malcolm Brown and Danny Shelton is not a Surprise

May 4, 2018

The Patriots have decided not to pick up the fifth year options for defensive tackles Malcolm Brown and Danny Shelton. While this may seem surprising, it really is not that surprising. Let’s start with Brown. If the Patriots picked up Brown’s option for 2019, they would have to pay him $7.8 million. Bill Belichick does not want to do that. Instead, he would prefer to try and sign Brown to…

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