When the Jacksonville Jaguars signed wide receiver Dyami Brown, it wasn’t clear how he’d fit into head coach Liam Coen’s offense.
Brown has more upside than production in his career and signed a one-year, $10 million contract with the team, essentially a prove it deal for the 25-year-old pass catcher.
He logged 784 yards on 59 receptions with four touchdowns in four seasons with the Washington Commanders. He broke out last season, recording 30 catches for 308 yards, but still only scored once for the Commanders and finished with the sixth most receptions on the team.
He was seen as a potential supplement to help the loss of Christian Kirk but was not expected to replace the value the veteran receiver brought to Jacksonville’s receiver room.
But after seeing his performance during offseason workouts, Brown might carry a large load of Jacksonville’s offense in 2025.
“It seems like he’s always in the right spot,” quarterback Trevor Lawrence said at the conclusion of the offseason. “He always has a feel for the zone, like where to sit, where to throttle, kind of those voids. I just think he’s really smart and I’m really excited about adding him to the offense, to the weapons that we already have.”
Dyami Brown knows what his role is on the Jaguars, he hopes to do it well
Brown knows exactly what his role is on the Jaguars. In a receiver room that features third-year pass catcher Parker Washington, second-year standout Thomas and rookie Travis Hunter, Brown is going to be a tone setter.
“To come in here and be the guy to help build the guys that’s around me,” he told reporters during minicamp. “I want to [be] a tempo setter to understand that we’re high energy and we want to go.”
He showed he has that capability during his last season with the Commanders. Brown recorded season highs of 89 and 98 yards in Washington’s playoff wins against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Detroit Lions.
The game against Tampa happened to feature Coen, who was the Buccaneers’ offensive coordinator at the time. It’s not a surprise that he’d have a clearcut role for Coen’s new team.
And it’s clear, Brown is looking to build on that success from last season with the Jaguars.
“I thought he was obviously very productive towards the halfway point of last year into the playoffs,” Coen said of Brown. “Then you see that confidence continuing to go throughout this camp and this offseason.”
Dyami Brown’s speed and versatility stood out during OTAs, Mandatory Minicamp
Brown stood out as a camp star this offseason. He didn’t fall out of the mix alongside Hunter or Thomas. Instead, he excelled and put several highlight worthy plays together.
Brown displayed a versatility to do multiple things for Jacksonville’s offense. Whether that’s going deep, or catching the ball on crossers, or routing defenders before coming back to the ball to make a catch at the first down marker, Brown did it all.
“I think over the course of this spring, Trevor and him have gained a little bit of a chemistry on some of those intermediate in-breakers, curls, maybe out-cuts,” Coen said. “I just think that they have a little bit of chemistry in that that was part of the selling point to have him come here was, man, we really want to continue to diversify your route tree and have you do more.”
Coen said the Jaguars viewed Brown as more than a screen, jet sweep or vertical threat player. They want him to do more in Coen’s offense, just as they want Thomas and Hunter to do multiple things.
With three dynamic playmakers deployed all over the field, it creates a limitless offense for Coen.
“Nobody is just running one route, we all do the exact same thing,” Brown said of Jacksonville’s receiver room. “It’s hard to guard three people who can do the same thing and be explosive at the same time.”
Brown and the Jaguars will report to the Miller Electric Center on July 22 before the start of Jacksonville’s training camp.
This article originally appeared on Florida Times-Union: Why Dyami Brown was the most impressive player for the Jacksonville Jaguars this offseason
Reporting by Juston Lewis, Jacksonville Florida Times-Union / Florida Times-Union
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