Fantasy Files: A.J. Brown might just be THE WR1 in 2021
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🗓️ 30 May 2021
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Host Ian Hartitz breaks down A.J. Brown's fantasy outlook ahead of the 2021 season. While high-end volume hasn't ever been afforded to the Titans' No. 1 WR, make no mistake about it: AJB has been anyone's idea of a top-five option at the position in just about any efficiency metric. His production after the catch has been particularly uncanny considering his downfield role. The good news for Brown is that the Titans' plethora of available targets could give him an elite workload to match his demonstrated talent. Ian is confident that even if the Titans go ahead and trade for Julio Jones: it'll still be AJB WR1 szn.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome to PFF Fancy football podcasts. I'm your host Ian Hartitz and today we continue |
| 0:13.8 | our fantasy file series with a look at none other than AJ Brown. If you have listened |
| 0:18.3 | to this podcast before, you have undoubtedly heard myself and probably plenty of the |
| 0:21.9 | guests as well. Reference AJB wider seabed one season. That's because it's always been |
| 0:26.7 | AJB wider seabed one season really since he got handed not handed since he earned the |
| 0:31.2 | starting job that really should have been his from day one, but it actually took the Titans |
| 0:35.2 | about six weeks to give it to him back in 2019. I mean, it really is funny when he |
| 0:39.4 | look back. I mean, Brown, it was just almost like spinning the picture for like what we |
| 0:43.5 | should expect from Brown, even his first like six games in the league. Week one of his |
| 0:48.2 | first ever NFL game, the Brown side that have Denzo Ward, travel a Corey Davis and Brown |
| 0:53.5 | accordingly turns his four targets in the three catches for a hundred yards, a couple |
| 0:58.0 | weeks later, the face in the Falcons, Brown cut three targets. He caught them all for 94 |
| 1:02.8 | yards and two touchdowns after that Brown was done playing under 50% of the offensive |
| 1:07.8 | snaps. So, you know, all Taiwan Taylor, Tajay Sharper, whoever it was holding packed Brown |
| 1:12.9 | for about four weeks aside, ever since he's gotten this job again, he's just been one of |
| 1:17.2 | the NFL's best wide receivers. There's no if ands or butts about it. The only reason why |
| 1:21.7 | you maybe don't think of him that way is because he doesn't have massive counting statistics. |
| 1:27.0 | He's been really good. And he also missed two games earlier in 2020 dealing with a knee |
| 1:32.3 | injury. If you didn't see, he actually had to have surgery on both knees after the season. |
| 1:36.4 | So, it's even crazier that he put up these numbers the way he did. But in 2019, as a rookie, |
| 1:41.7 | 52 catches, 1,000 51 yards, eight touchdowns and 2020 70 catches, 1,075 yards, 11 touchdowns. |
| 1:49.2 | Great numbers. I just, I get it though. It's not numbers that you would just immediately |
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