Veteran offensive tackle Trent Brown signed a one-year contract with the Cincinnati Bengals on Tuesday, the team announced.

Brown will pair with Orlando Brown Jr. to give the Bengals bookend tackles to protect star quarterback Joe Burrow.

The Bengals had a vacancy on their offensive line after offensive tackle Jonah Williams agreed to a contract with the Arizona Cardinals last week.

Trent Brown, 6-foot-8 and 370 pounds, enters his 10th NFL season and has played in 100 career regular-season games, with 93 starts. He has started 51 games at right tackle and 42 at left tackle.

Brown had been playing at a high level at left tackle for the New England Patriots last season before injuring his ankle in an Oct. 22 win over the Buffalo Bills and then attempting to play through it the next week in a loss to the Miami Dolphins. He started only one more game the remainder of the season, having fallen out of favor, while publicly expressing his displeasure with the organization.

Brown's best season as a pro came in 2018 with the Patriots, when he started every game at left tackle in the team's Super Bowl championship season. He parlayed that into a four-year, $66 million free agent contract with the Raiders, but, after two injury-filled seasons, Las Vegas traded him back to New England in 2021.

Brown, who entered the NFL as a seventh-round draft choice of the San Francisco 49ers in 2015, will turn 31 on April 13.

ESPN's Jeremy Fowler and Mike Reiss contributed to this report.