PHILADELPHIA — A.J. Brown says it matter-of-factly, as if the precision of his goal isn’t actually as unusual as it is.
“This offseason, I was hitting 23 miles per hour a couple of times, and that’s what I needed,” the Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver said last week in a sit-down interview with Yahoo Sports. “The goal for me is to get in the best shape possible and to run my routes around 18, 19 miles per hour every single time.”
It’s a striking goal, not only because of the minuscule percentage of humans who could accelerate to 18-plus mph if they tried.