Everyone in New England's building spent the week talking about AJ Brown, and Seattle's defense had to answer for it. CBS Sports and SI.com both framed Devon Witherspoon drawing the tough assignment on Brown as one of the season's real matchups, not a footnote. That's attention Seattle's defense was spending somewhere, and it wasn't on the slot.
The slot is where DeMario Douglas lives, and he'd shown real chemistry with Drake Maye all camp, not a hope. In the Patriots' August 7 intrasquad scrimmage, Douglas caught six passes for two touchdowns, including a 50-yard score after getting behind the safety (Patriots.com, Boston Globe, Yahoo Sports). Separately, SI.com covered an off-platform scramble touchdown from Maye to Douglas during an 11-on-11 period as "the play of Patriots training camp." Two different practices, same conclusion: when Maye needed a target he trusted, Douglas was the one he found.
Douglas's 2+ touchdown contract was priced at 1¢/2¢ as of Wednesday, September 9, 2026, 11:35 AM ET — about as close to free as this board gets, and I didn't think it should be.
I was on Douglas at 2¢, up to 5¢ — past that, the long-shot math stopped working even if the read was right.
Final: the 2+ touchdown contract settled No.
What killed it: this whole case leaned on Brown pulling Witherspoon's attention specifically, and on Douglas actually seeing enough red-zone or intermediate targets to get two scores, not just volume underneath. If New England's game plan didn't feed him inside the twenty, camp tape wasn't going to be enough on its own.
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