A.J. Brown gets loose for 40-yard TD vs. former team Titans

PHILADELPHIA - A.J. Brown wasn't going to beryllium denied against his aged squad Sunday.

One play aft having a 40-yard touchdown drawback called backmost down the close broadside against the Tennessee Titans, the Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver sprung escaped on the near broadside and trotted successful for the people to springiness the Eagles a 14-7 pb successful the 2nd quarter.

Brown was traded from the Titans to the Eagles connected the archetypal nighttime of the draught this past April for the Nos. 18 and 101 wide picks aft helium and Tennessee were incapable to travel to presumption connected a declaration extension. Brown acknowledged this week that the crippled "means a lot" but said helium needed to "be nonrecreational astir it and support my emotions down and conscionable play."

Those emotions were tested aboriginal successful the 2nd quarter. It looked similar helium had scored aft beating cornerback Kristian Fulton connected a treble determination connected 1st-and-15, but the touchdown was overturned and the walk from Jalen Hurts ruled incomplete, arsenic it was determined Brown's 2nd ft was retired of bounds.

On the adjacent play, Brown collided with Fulton portion executing different treble move. Fulton fell to the crushed and was flagged for amerciable contact, portion Brown ran alone, making 1 of the easiest catches of his vocation earlier floating into the extremity zone.

Brown had 15.6 yards of separation astatine the clip the walk arrived connected the play, according to NFL NextGen Stats. It's the astir yards of separation connected a touchdown by an Eagle since NFL NextGen started tracking separation yards successful 2016.

Brown, who secured a four-year, $100 cardinal hold from Philadelphia the infinitesimal helium was traded, took the big-picture attack this week erstwhile talking astir facing his aged team.

"I consciousness similar careless of however the commercialized and everything goes down, I consciousness similar maine personally, I consciousness similar I've won," Brown said. "I accidental that due to the fact that I changed my family's beingness forever. That's the goal. Especially increasing up from wherever I'm from. Of people I privation to bash large and execute each the large things, but that's the crushed wherefore we play the game."

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