The New England Patriots prevented a possible disaster once they realized that star large receiver A.J. Brown suffered a excessive ankle sprain with no fracture in the course of the membership’s 13-10 season-opening loss on the Seattle Seahawks on Wednesday night time.
That mentioned, subsequent experiences revealed that Brown was anticipated to overlook anyplace between three and 6 video games attributable to this setback. On Friday, ESPN NFL insider Adam Schefter shared some anticipated information concerning Brown’s short-term standing.
A.J. Brown will now miss a minimum of this many video games
Per Schefter and others, the Patriots are putting Brown on injured reserve. Thus, the 29-year-old now will not be obtainable for the Week 2 recreation in opposition to the Pittsburgh Steelers, the Week 3 matchup in opposition to the
Jacksonville Jaguars, the Week 4 contest on the Buffalo Payments and the Week 5 conflict with the Las Vegas Raiders.
Brown’s standing for the Week 6 recreation in opposition to the New York Jets will not be decided till some level subsequent month.
Brown went down with the damage within the third quarter of Wednesday’s recreation and didn’t return. Free-agent acquisition Romeo Doubs, who had a pricey drop within the fourth quarter of the loss to the Seahawks, is presently on monitor to function the Patriots’ WR1 in opposition to Pittsburgh on Sept. 20.
The Steelers will open their season with a house recreation versus the Atlanta Falcons
this coming Sunday afternoon.
“A part of my job as a participant is to make this staff higher,” Doubs mentioned after the loss, per Mark Daniels of MassLive. “And I’ll be higher transferring ahead.”
Are Patriots already regretting this offseason transfer?
As Chad Graff of The Athletic famous for a bit printed on Friday, “the Patriots felt all offseason that large receiver was one place the place they’d loads of depth,” which is one purpose the membership traded wantaway wideout Kayshon Boutte to the Houston Texans for security Jaylen Reed and a 2028 seventh-round draft decide in late August.
Boutte is not a like-for-like substitute for Brown. Nonetheless, one can not help however suppose the New England offense can be higher at this time with Boutte serving as a weapon for quarterback Drake Maye.
