{"id":254988,"date":"2026-07-28T04:44:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T04:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/28\/patriots-hc-mike-vrabel-very-confident-in-a-j-browns-health-despite-reported-knee-issue\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T04:44:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T04:44:16","slug":"patriots-hc-mike-vrabel-very-confident-in-a-j-browns-health-despite-reported-knee-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/28\/patriots-hc-mike-vrabel-very-confident-in-a-j-browns-health-despite-reported-knee-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Patriots HC Mike Vrabel &#8216;very confident&#8217; in A.J. Brown&#8217;s health, despite reported knee issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nfl\/teams\/new_england_patriots\/41\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New England Patriots\u00a0<\/a>head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nfl\/players\/mike_vrabel\/3747\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mike Vrabel<\/a> insists the team isn&#8217;t concerned about the health of wide receiver <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nfl\/players\/aj_brown\/639956\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A.J. Brown<\/a> heading into the 2026 season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Vrabel spoke to the media at training camp. He dismissed a report that shared Brown is suffering from a degenerative right knee issue.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>Mike Vrabel speaks on A.J. Brown&#8217;s health\u00a0<\/h2>\n<p>&#8220;I think a lot of things get fabricated and people tell stories,&#8221; Vrabel said. &#8220;We&#8217;re very confident in where [Brown&#8217;s] at physically.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Someone must have forgotten to remind Vrabel the report wasn&#8217;t fabricated. His colleague, Patriots vice president of player personnel Eliot Wolf, told <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nfl\/article\/the-patriots-called-about-aj-brown-for-2-years-and-were-laughed-at-now-the-ex-eagles-wr-is-practicing-with-them-041459096.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yahoo Sports&#8217; Jori Epstein<\/a> in a June story that Brown has a knee problem. 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