Wide Receiver · New England Patriots
A.J. Brown
No. 1 · 8th season
A.J. Brown admits he was the one feeding stories to the press
There's always a moment when the rumor stops being a rumor. For A.J. Brown and the Philadelphia Eagles, that moment came when Brown said out loud what had been circling for a while: he was the one putting stories into the media.
Brown spent several seasons as one of the most dangerous wide receivers in football while in Philadelphia, a big, physical presence who became a centerpiece of the Eagles' offense. Whatever tension existed between him and the organization was, apparently, not staying internal.
Brown admitted he purposely fed stories about the Eagles to reporters. No vague denial, no "I don't know where that came from." He said it.
That kind of admission changes the shape of everything that came before it. Every report that felt like a leak, every unnamed source, every uncomfortable story that surfaced during a contract stretch or a rough stretch of games — it all sits differently now. The Eagles have since moved on, and so has Brown, now with the New England Patriots. But the admission is out there.
The question it leaves open is a simple one: what exactly did he want people to know, and when?
““If you say what you need to say to the media, which I won’t do anymore, it gives everything legs to push everyone to be better,” Brown said. “Because pressure isn’t always a bad thing, it can be a good thing. Honestly, I felt like it was OK to do.””
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