While many Philadelphia Eagles fans have a lot of love and respect for star wide receiver A.J. Brown, the 2025 season did not go the way anyone thought it would.
Brown ended up having the worst season of his Eagles career since joining the team back in 2022. He finished with 1,003 yards and seven touchdowns. It was the first time in Philly that he did not make the Pro Bowl, be named All-Pro, or lead the team in receiving for the season.
The 2025 campaign was filled with inconsistent play from Brown, as he started the first half of the season poorly before picking it up in the second half. Many would argue that he had one of the wildest seasons of any receiver in the NFL.
A.J. Brown's official label for the 2025 season with Eagles
Pro Football Focus writer Nic Bodiford gave his list of the four most volatile wide receivers in the NFL. Brown is one of the four who made the list for his inconsistent play.
"Brown finished as the Weeks 1-17 half-PPR WR10 in his age-28 season this year, delivering a positive conclusion to a season in which he opened as the WR91 in Weeks 1-2. Brown’s 82.2 PFF offense grade ties for a career-low, first earned in his 2019 rookie season. Among Brown’s first eight 2025 games in Weeks 1-9, he finished as the WR100, WR70 twice, WR97 and WR91, plus two top-four positional finishes and one WR21 finish. Among Weeks 1-17, Brown scored fewer than 2.5 points three times and produced single-digit weekly results seven times."
"Brown finished as a WR3 or better each week among Weeks 11-17, logging four finishes as the WR17 or better, which is highlighted by an overall WR1 finish in Week 13. Among the full NFL season, Brown produced career lows in YPRR (1.96), yards after the catch per reception (3.3) and yards per reception (12.7). His 24.2% target rate is the third-lowest among his seven NFL seasons. Brown’s declining per-route productivity could yield even more erratic, and likely overall worse, results in his age-29 season next year."
Through Brown's first nine games of the season, he caught 38 passes for 457 yards and three touchdowns. Then he had a streak of three straight games with over 100 receiving yards (all three losses), and he finished the last seven games with 43 receptions for 572 yards and four touchdowns.
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Now, with trade rumors surrounding Brown for the foreseeable future, the Eagles are left with some tough decisions, but the 2025 season did not do him or the team any favors.