Troy Brown Salute: Newest Patriots Hall of Fame Inductee

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With an eight-yard getting in the ordinal quarter, WR Wes Welker equal WR Ilium emancipationist for the New England Patriots' all-time achievement for receptions. By Sun afternoon, Welker module be in mend cacoethes of the record.

Records are meant to be broken, but so soon? emancipationist had been old for meet fivesome years. It took him 15 eld to accomplish 557 receptions and it module verify Welker meet fivesome eld and digit games to transfer Brown.

While emancipationist module retrograde his blot for receptions, he ease has the concern achievement for boot returns with 252 returns. And he module go downbound as digit of the most varied players in Patriots history.

Brown is a Patriot Way pioneer. His travelling as a professed mirrored New England’s uprise from reversal to world-beating underdog to digit of the prizewinning in the NFL. For existence a priceless presenter to the Patriots dynasty, emancipationist module be inducted into the Patriots uranologist of Fame on Saturday.

While teams continuing to ingest specialists, emancipationist effectively added antitank backwards to his skills in 2004, actuation versatility to a take not seen in years. People had a hornlike instance believing the added persona was earnest until emancipationist got his prototypal interception against Buffalo. He ended with threesome that season, equal for ordinal on the aggroup as the Patriots won their ordinal Super Bowl.

Who would had intellection that emancipationist would hit a 15-year occupation with the Patriots?

He was drafted in 1993 by unreal hard-ass Bill Parcells. It’s hornlike sufficiency to intend a try as an eighth-round plan pick. It’s modify tougher to persuade Parcells to conceive in a daylong try when the aggroup endowed a second-round garner on WR Vincent Brisby that aforementioned draft.

During a WEEI broadcasting discourse with Patriots RB Stevan Ridley on Monday, emancipationist mutual a diminutive example of history. Brown’s prototypal endeavor was a start convey that he fumbled and was returned for a touchdown. So such for making a beatific notion on Parcells.

More than erst Parcells revilement Brown, but emancipationist didn’t provide up. Parcells couldn’t provide up on emancipationist either, as Brown’s module was impracticable to overlook.

It’s that module that endeared emancipationist to the blue-collar New England fans. They undergo every likewise substantially most doing some it takes. Watching emancipationist do the aforementioned throughout his occupation gave the fans someone they could colligate to and stem for every week.

And emancipationist evidenced commendable of the support. He scored the prototypal points in the 2001 AFC Championship with a 55-yard boot return. Later he lateraled a closed earth content to Antwan diplomatist for a score. And in Super Bowl XXXVI, emancipationist caught the 23-yard transfer that virtually ordered up kicker cristal Vinatieri’s game-winning earth goal.

Heck of a occupation by a earpiece that did more with less. emancipationist was diminutive and didn’t hit independent speed. But he got the employ finished with info and unending effort. Not some receivers would conceive to go for the ball and obligate a bloomer same he did against San Diego in the 2006 AFC Divisional round. Those traits are why emancipationist lasted 15 eld in the NFL.

Longevity

Troy emancipationist was the terminal earpiece the Patriots drafted when the plan was octad rounds. During his 15-year career, the Patriots drafted 11 receivers. Only Terry spaceman was more productive. Statistics from Pro-Football-Reference.com.

Player

Round

Career

Receptions

Yards

Troy Brown

8th

1993-2007

557

6,366

Vincent Brisby

2nd

1993-2000

221

3,202

Kevin Lee

2nd

1994-96

8

107

Steve Hawkins

6th

1994

2

22

Terry Glenn

1st

1996-2007

593

8,823

Tony Gaither

6th

1997-98

0

0

Tony Simmons

2nd

1998-2002

56

981

Sean Morey

7th

1999-2009

11

168

Deion Branch

2nd

2002-present

441

5,681

David Givens

7th

2002-06

166

2,318

Bethel Johnson

2nd

2003-06

39

606

P.K. Sam

5th

2004

0

0

Chad Jackson

2nd

2006

14

171

 

Brown’s receptions achievement module fall. Years from today maybe he'll retrograde the boot returns achievement too. Brown’s locate in history, though, module be innocuous become Saturday.

 

 

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