Eagles WR AJ Brown seriously considered restarting baseball career earlier this year

Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver AJ Brown says he was seriously considering an attempt at becoming a two-sport athlete earlier this year before being traded from the Tennessee Titans during the 2022 NFL Draft.

Brown is a young talent on the rise, and it is why the Eagles traded for him in June and gave him a sizable pay raise to the tune of four years and $100 million. Thus far in his debut season in Philadelphia, the 25-year-old has been everything the team has been hoping for. That includes a 10-catch and 155-yard performance in their season opener.

However, before he landed with the Eagles earlier this year, Brown had a very different outlook for his career in 2022. Many NFL fans do not realize that Brown was not just a football star during his formative years. He was also a talented baseball prospect and actually was drafted by the San Diego Padres in the 19th round of the 2016 MLB Draft. With his NFL career not quite going in the direction he preferred to start the year, Brown claims he was seriously thinking about trying to return to baseball.

In January, Brown sent out a tweet stating, “Sometimes I think about playing both sports again. Padres, all I need is a workout. I still got [it].” While most sports fans shrugged the comment off as the usual bravado of a young and talented athlete, it seems that the Padres took the comment seriously.