{"id":76667,"date":"2019-11-21T22:33:16","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T03:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonprofootball.com\/?p=76667"},"modified":"2019-11-21T22:36:20","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T03:36:20","slug":"antonio-brown-not-return-new-england-patriots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2019\/11\/21\/antonio-brown-not-return-new-england-patriots\/","title":{"rendered":"Antonio Brown Will Not Return to New England Patriots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=BrowAn04,BrowAn01&amp;search=Antonio+Brown&amp;utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Antonio Brown<\/a><\/strong> issued a public apology to <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprofootball.com\/nfl-teams\/patriots\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New England Patriots<\/a> owner <strong>Robert Kraft<\/strong>, leading to some speculation that the former All-Pro could make a return to Foxboro. However, according to\u00a0<strong>Jeff Howe<\/strong> of <em>The Athletic\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<strong>Tom Curran<\/strong> of NBC Sports, Brown <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nfl\/news\/patriots-reportedly-not-interested-in-bringing-back-wide-receiver-antonio-brown\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">will not re-sign<\/a> with the Patriots. Both reporters cite sources within Gillette Stadium as their claims.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Patriots will not be re-signing Antonio Brown, according to a source. Those rumors can be put to rest.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jeff Howe (@jeffphowe) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jeffphowe\/status\/1197715738687086592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">November 22, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Antonio Brown, New England Patriots Reunion Not Going to Happen<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Antonio Brown had one of the most interesting offseasons of any player in recent memory. After missing the Pittsburgh Steelers 2018 finale, the former sixth-round pick arrived in Oakland via trade. Brown wouldn&#8217;t even play a game for the Raiders, as the team released him prior to the season opener. Brown then signed with the New England Patriots and appeared in one game for the reigning Super Bowl champions. During his time in New England, Brown recorded four receptions for 56 yards and one touchdown.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Patriots quickly decided that Brown wasn&#8217;t worth the headache. The wide receiver failed to inform the team about an impending lawsuit regarding accused sexual misconduct and followed that up by sending <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nfl\/2019\/09\/19\/antonio-brown-accuser-text-messages\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">intimidating texts<\/a> to a different accuser. The Patriots parted ways with the talented yet troubled wideout prior to their Week 3 matchup against the New York Jets.<\/p>\n<p>The Patriots are currently hurting at the wide receiver position.\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/S\/SanuMo00.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mohamed Sanu<\/a><\/strong> suffered a high ankle sprain against the Philadelphia Eagles while\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/D\/DorsPh00.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Phillip Dorsett<\/a><\/strong> is currently in concussion protocol. Additionally, the Patriots placed special teams ace <strong>Gunner Olszewski<\/strong> on the injured reserve with an ankle injury. This leaves <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/E\/EdelJu00.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Julian Edelman<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/H\/HarrNK00.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">N&#8217;Keal Harry<\/a><\/strong>, and\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/M\/MeyeJa01.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jakobi Meyers<\/a><\/strong> as the only healthy receivers on the roster. However, if the Patriots are looking for outside help at wide receiver, it won&#8217;t come from Antonio Brown.<\/p>\n<p>Main photo:<br \/>\n<a id=\"PRus55omQZNrVJIbqHcXkw\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1169009109\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'PRus55omQZNrVJIbqHcXkw',sig:'o0nsRKDDTs5O9U0I9q3THawcgsTUmAfM-ZHo56lTJe4=',w:'594px',h:'416px',items:'1169009109',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Antonio Brown will not return to the New England Patriots, according to Jeff Howe of The Athetic and Tom Curran of NBC Sports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2376,"featured_media":76670,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,36],"tags":[138,61,5138,666,521,4195,38,40,246],"class_list":["post-76667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-patriots","category-nfl-news","tag-antonio-brown","tag-football","tag-jakobi-meyers","tag-julian-edelman","tag-mohamed-sanu","tag-nkeal-harry","tag-new-england-patriots","tag-nfl","tag-nfl-news"],"modified_by":"David Latham, Managing Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2376"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}