Washington wide receiver Dyami Brown has played himself into the Commanders’ future. The fourth-year receiver was a third-round pick in the 2021 NFL draft. However, entering this season, Brown had appeared in 47 NFL games with 29 receptions, 476 receiving yards and three touchdowns.
This season, Brown has caught 30 passes for 308 yards and a touchdown. Sure, those aren’t dominant numbers, but Brown’s role has evolved throughout the season to where he is now Jayden Daniels’ second-best receiver.
In last week’s NFC wild-card win over the Buccaneers, Brown caught five passes for 89 yards and a touchdown. This wasn’t a case of Brown catching go balls. He was everywhere, running the complete route tree and even over and through one Bucs’ defender.
It’s the perfect time for Brown, who will be a free agent at the end of the season. Brown has finally found an offense and a coordinator (Kliff Kingsbury) who believes in his skillset. Kingsbury is Washington’s third offensive coordinator in Brown’s four NFL seasons.
Kingsbury appreciates the work Brown has put in and expects even more.
“Yeah, they’ve all stepped up when their number’s been called, and Dyami is the guy who, when we got here, I had known about him from North Carolina,” Kingsbury said of Brown.
“We obviously looked at him when I was at Arizona. And just, I guess the attitude and the approach really has gotten more business-like and more professional throughout this season and it’s paying off. I mean, he’s showing up over and over and over, always been able to run, always been able to be really good with the ball in his hands, but his route technique and fundamentals, things like that are really improving and it’s a credit to him and the way he is approached this season. And so, to have a game like that, in that type of environment was really cool to see that hard work paying off.”
Could Brown be in store for another breakout-type performance on Saturday against the top-seeded Detroit Lions in the NFC divisional round?
Brown is a quiet guy, but you can bet he remembers, or someone will remind him of Lions’ star Amon-Ra St. Brown’s comments about him after the two teams played in September 2022.
#Lions WR Amon-Ra St. Brown was scanning the Commanders sideline during Sunday’s game looking for WR Dyami Brown, who was taken ahead of him in the 2021 NFL Draft.
“I don’t forget things like that. … I didn’t see him in the game much.”
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— Ari Meirov (@MySportsUpdate) September 21, 2022
There’s no doubting St. Brown is a star. Just don’t sleep on Dyami Brown, either.