A.J.Brown

News: 20 hours agoBrown (knee/ankle) is listed as questionable for Sunday's game against the Lions, Mike Reiss of ESPN.com reports.

Spin: The same applies to RB Rhamondre Stevenson (knee), with coach Mike Vrabel having said "pretty good" when asked before Friday's practice about his view on how the duo was progressing toward playing this weekend. Fortunately for those considering Brown (who was listed as limited at practice Wednesday through Friday) in Week 10 fantasy lineups, his status will be known before the first wave of games Sunday, with a 9:30 am ET kickoff in Munich scheduled.

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.