The Philadelphia Eagles are cautiously optimistic about star wide receiver A.J. Brown\u2019s availability for their Week 8 game against the New York Giants. Brown was added to the team\u2019s injury report this week with a hamstring concern and did not practice on Wednesday or Thursday.<\/p>\n
Concerns had grown over his ability to play Sunday, but Jeff McLane of The Philadelphia Inquirer<\/em> reports that Brown is \u201ctracking toward playing\u201d despite missing practice earlier in the week. The Eagles will release their final injury report on Friday, which should clarify his status.<\/p>\n Even if Brown doesn\u2019t take part in Friday\u2019s practice, he has a history of playing games without full practice participation, so his absence in practice isn\u2019t necessarily a red flag.<\/p>\n If he does sit out, the Eagles would rely heavily on DeVonta Smith and tight end Dallas Goedert for passing targets, with Jahan Dotson and John Metchie III seeing increased snaps.<\/p>\n Brown has been performing at a high level lately, recording 10 catches for 201 yards and two touchdowns over the past two games. Having him on the field would be a major boost as Philadelphia looks to maintain momentum against their division rivals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Philadelphia Eagles are cautiously optimistic about star wide receiver A.J. Brown\u2019s availability for their Week 8 game against the\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":294,"featured_media":92992,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[32375],"class_list":["post-92990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-a-j-brown"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/294"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}