A.J.Brown

News: 1 day agoBrown (knee) is trending toward traveling with the Patriots for their trip to Munich, where the team will face the Lions this coming weekend, according to Mark Daniels of MassLive.com.

Spin: Per Mike Reiss of ESPN.com, coach Mike Vrabel indicated that for now the team plans for the wideout to make the trip, but a decision on that front has yet to be locked in. In Brown's second consecutive missed game, Sunday against the Packers, DeMario Douglas, Mack Hollins, Efton Chism and Kyle Williams handled the Patriots' Week 9 WR duties.

ESPN Fantasy Projection: Brown was traded to the Patriots in June. The veteran receiver enters 2026 looking to continue his streak of finishing in the top 15 in fantasy points per game during each of the four seasons he was with the Eagles. That includes an 11th-place finish in 2025 in which Brown reached the 1,000-yard mark for the sixth time in his seven NFL seasons while finding the end zone exactly seven times for the third year in a row. Brown continues to benefit from elite usage (he has finished no lower than seventh among WRs in target share each of the past seven seasons) and elite efficiency (he has finished 80th percentile or better in yards per route run all seven years). He could use more end zone targets in New England (he had a career-low four last season), but Brown, 29, is set to work as Drake Maye's top target in a good Patriots' offense. He is a fringe fantasy WR1.