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What we learned in Week 2: Will the Josh Gordon lottery ticket pay off?

Josh Gordon with Tom Brady as his quarterback is a thrilling concept, but the problem with Gordon is converting concept into reality.

Gordon was a dominant wide receiver for the Cleveland Browns in 2013. But in the four-plus years since, he has been that player only in our imaginations. It's so exciting to remember what he did that year -- 87 catches for a league-leading 1,646 yards to go with nine touchdowns in only 14 games -- that we ignore the fact that it happened five years ago.

The odds of anyone repeating such a performance after so much time are incredibly low, to say nothing of Gordon's chances of playing 14 games in a season.