A.J. Brown\u2019s final moments with the Philadelphia Eagles weren\u2019t memories he\u2019ll be fond of. He had three receptions for 25 yards and a costly drop that could\u2019ve easily flipped the game script as well as the score. Instead, the 49ers marched on while the Eagles\u2019 season ended.<\/p>\n
The Eagles are on the 49ers\u2019 schedule again this season. However, Brown won\u2019t be on the roster. The long-awaited trade is finally complete, sending Brown to the New England Patriots, contingent on Brown passing a physical.<\/p>\n
New England receives Brown, while the Eagles get a 2028 1st-round pick and a 2027 fifth-round pick. The Patriots keep their first-rounder in a loaded class next year. Philadelphia will save around $50 million by dealing Brown.<\/p>\n
The Eagles feel like a prime regression candidate this season. DeVonta Smith moves to the WR1 role. He\u2019s as good if not better than advertised. However, rookie Makai Lemon would then need to fill either Brown or Smith\u2019s shoes. Good luck with that. Add in an offensive line that is seemingly always banged up, with a quarterback who isn\u2019t decisive, and it puts a lot of pressure on Vic Fangio\u2019s defense to be flawless.<\/p>\n
Hot take: The Eagles will be on the brink, if not out of, the playoff picture by the time they travel to Santa Clara in December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A.J. Brown\u2019s final moments with the Philadelphia Eagles weren\u2019t memories he\u2019ll be fond of. He had three receptions…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,8376,8377,30054,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-341958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-49ers-news","tag-san-francisco-49ers-rumors","tag-san-francisco-49ers-schedule","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}