{"id":846577,"date":"2026-09-13T17:18:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T17:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/846577\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T17:18:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T17:18:12","slug":"nfl-network-patriots-wr-a-j-brown-expected-to-miss-six-weeks-with-high-ankle-sprain-latest-nfl-news-analysis-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/846577\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Network: Patriots WR A.J. Brown expected to miss six weeks with high ankle sprain | Latest NFL News, Analysis &#038; Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The reigning AFC champions are now expected to be without their top offseason acquisition for over a quarter of the 2026 season. New England plays four 2025 playoff clubs in its <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" class=\"relative text-plus-650 dark:text-plus-350 underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patriots.com\/schedule\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-headlessui-state=\"\">next six games<\/a>: vs. Steelers, at Jaguars, at Bills, vs. Raiders, vs. Jets, at Bears.<\/p>\n<p>Before exiting Wednesday&#8217;s loss, Brown had three catches on four targets for 26 yards in his first game for New England since his offseason trade from Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p>The pressure will be on <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" class=\"relative text-plus-650 dark:text-plus-350 underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/drake-maye\" target=\"_blank\" data-headlessui-state=\"\">Drake Maye<\/a> to elevate the play of <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" class=\"relative text-plus-650 dark:text-plus-350 underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/romeo-doubs\" target=\"_blank\" data-headlessui-state=\"\">Romeo Doubs<\/a>, <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" class=\"relative text-plus-650 dark:text-plus-350 underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/mack-hollins\" target=\"_blank\" data-headlessui-state=\"\">Mack Hollins<\/a>, <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" class=\"relative text-plus-650 dark:text-plus-350 underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/demario-douglas\" target=\"_blank\" data-headlessui-state=\"\">Demario Douglas<\/a> and his other pass catchers with Brown out.<\/p>\n<p>New England (0-1) <a class=\"relative text-plus-650 dark:text-plus-350 underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/games\/steelers-at-patriots-2026-reg-2?tab=overview\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-headlessui-state=\"\" target=\"_blank\">hosts<\/a> Pittsburgh in its Foxborough opener next Sunday at 1 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The reigning AFC champions are now expected to be without their top offseason acquisition for over a quarter&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":846578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[61658,6255,20174,1815,3,349,36315,99],"class_list":["post-846577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-a-j-brown","tag-around-the-nfl","tag-injuries","tag-new-england-patriots","tag-news","tag-nfl","tag-regular-season","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=846577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/846578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}