page_title: Alex Brown (defensive end)
section_title: Chicago Bears
hierarchical_section_title: Alex Brown (defensive end) / Professional career / Chicago Bears
caption_attribution_description: English: The Chicago Bears defensive team.
context_page_description: Alex James Brown is an American former football defensive end who played in the National Football League for nine seasons. He played college football for the University of Florida, and was a two-time All-American. The Chicago Bears picked Brown in the fourth round of the 2002 NFL Draft, and he also played for the New Orleans Saints.
context_section_description: The Chicago Bears selected Brown in the fourth round (104th pick overall) of the 2002 NFL Draft, and he played for the Bears from 2002 to 2009.  As a rookie, he started nine of the fifteen games in which he played at right defensive end and logged 2.5 quarterback sacks.  He also totaled 40 tackles (31 unassisted) and three passes broken up, while also contributing on special teams coverage.  During the 2003 season, his first as a full-time starter, he led the Bears with 5.5 sacks, with a career-high fifty-eight tackles (forty-nine solos), and six tackles for losses while forcing two fumbles and recovering a fumble.
  He started at right defensive end for all sixteen regular season games in 2004, and compiling six sacks and fifty tackles, with eleven tackles for a loss and nine passes defensed.  In a game against the New York Giants on November 7, 2004, Brown recorded a career-high four sacks to go along with eight tackles, including six solos stops.  He also forced a fumble and batted down a pass at the line of scrimmage.  For his efforts, Brown was named the NFL Defensive Player of the Week by Pro Football Weekly.
  Brown was a first-alternate for the Pro Bowl after recording 75 tackles (nine for a loss) and six sacks, eight broken up passes and three forced fumbles during the 2005 season.  Sports Illustrated selected him for its All-Pro Team.  He was named NFC Defensive Player of the Week following the game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on November 27, 2005.  In 2006, he was selected as a second-alternate for the Pro Bowl after recording a career-high seven sacks and two interceptions while making forty-six tackles, three forced fumbles, two fumble recoveries and two passes broken up while starting all sixteen games at right defensive end.
  In 2007 Brown tied for the team lead with five passes broken up, tied for second with five tackles for a loss and two fumble recoveries and tied for third with two forced fumbles, after playing in all sixteen games (two starts) for the fifth straight year, extending his consecutive games played streak to a team-high ninety-five contests.  He ranked second on the defensive line with fifty-eight tackles and added five quarterback hits, 4.5 sacks, one interception, two forced fumbles and a blocked kick.
  On December 22, 2008 Brown deflected a field goal attempt by Packers kicker Mason Crosby in the final twenty-five seconds of the fourth quarter to set up the game-winning field goal for the Bears in a 20–17 overtime victory over the Green Bay Packers.  In the second game of the 2009 season, the Bears upset the defending Super Bowl champion Pittsburgh Steelers 17–14, and Brown recorded two key sacks of Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger.  Brown was later carted off the field with four minutes left in the game with a sprained ankle.
  After the 2009 season, the Bears released Brown on April 1, 2010, after failing to trade him to another team.
caption: Brown, along with Adewale Ogunleye, Tommie Harris and Mark Anderson during training camp in 2008.
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