When A.J. Brown caught that second touchdown on Sunday, draped in coverage and detaching his hands at just the right time, it was one of those moments where you thought to yourself, “well shit, not a lot of guys can do that.”

Here, watch it again:

Seems like a generic, ‘no duh’ kind of line, but I mentioned in the takeaways post on Sunday afternoon that the only recent Eagles receiver who can make that play is 2017 Alshon Jeffery. He was the type of big-bodied guy who knew how to make contested catches and attack the ball in tight spaces, highlighted by the sick Super Bowl run of five years ago.

But, honest to God, I don’t know if any other receiver following the T.O. era can make this catch. DeSean was awesome, but he was a speed burner. Jeremy Maclin? Super skilled, but I’m not sure that even the 2014 version of Maclin makes this catch. Same for Riley Cooper, Jordan Matthews, Kevin Curtis, Nelson Agholor, and all of the other dudes we can’t remember off the top of our head.

“(Tre Avery) is not looking at me, and I’m looking at the ball” Brown said about the touchdown catch. “I think me having a darker visor kind of helps out a lot. I see him and I see the ball, so he doesn’t know where the ball is. I just try to stay calm as long as possible. To be honest, I was really trying to clear it out for (DeVonta Smith). It was kind of a Cover-2 beater or something like that. If the corner squats, (Jalen Hurts) will throw the go ball, but he didn’t squat, so I looked like I was just running off. And then I looked up and peeked at the ball, and it was in the air. I was like, ‘I’ve got to try and stay calm.’ And it was already close, so I was just trying to create some room even if I had to push him off or do whatever I had to do to make the catch.”

Good explanation there. He was making room for Smith on the corner route, and ended up scoring anyway.

Point being, A.J. Brown is special. Hopefully people recognize this and appreciate it in between wasteful arguments about run defense and shell coverage, because players like this don’t come around very often. You have to enjoy every NFL moment, because they’re fleeting. What is the frequency with which we get a guy who is capable of going out and grabbing eight passes for 118 yards and two scores to lead the team to an 11-1 record? It happens maybe once every 20 years, if you’re lucky.

On the season, Brown has 61 catches for 950 yards and nine touchdowns. He is on pace to shatter his previous career highs of 70, 1,075, and 11, respectively. He is averaging 9.9 yards per target and only Stefon Diggs, Tyreek Hill, Justin Jefferson, Davante Adams, and Jaylen Waddle have more yards as receivers. He’ll also become the Eagles’ first 1,000 yard receiver since 2014, and only the fourth Eagle to reach that mark in the last 15 years.

You can spend all day parsing beautiful stats like these, but our eyes should tell us all we need to know. After several years of subpar receiver play, Howie Roseman went out and stole from Tennessee the best receiver to wear the uniform since Terrell Owens.