New Patriots WR A.J. Brown leaves game with ankle injury

Cooper Neill via Getty Images Like the Seattle Seahawks losing quarterback Sam Darnold, it didn't take long into the 2026 season for the New England Patriots to experience a potentially big injury. Receiver A.J. Brown, the biggest acquisition of the offseason for New England in a trade with the Philadelphia Eagles, grabbed his lower right leg after an incompletion in the third quarter of Wednesday night's opener against the Seattle Seahawks and stayed down as the athletic training staff came out to check on him. On a low throw, Seahawks cornerback Nehemiah Pritchett landed on Brown's leg. Brown immediately grabbed...