5 Reasons Why Jaron Brown Will Be 2015’s Waiver Wire Darling

Concern About Fitz and Floyd

Let’s not kid ourselves: Larry Fitzgerald has been the picture of health through his 11-year career with the Cardinals, starting 168 out of a possible 176 games for them. The only problem is that he -- at age 31 -- is on the downturn of his career, and three of those missed starts came last season. In fact, since the start of 2013, Fitzgerald has been listed as “questionable” or worse on the injury report for 8 of 32 weeks. In his prior nine years, he was listed as such just nine times. This is not to predict that he will get injured, but the risk is becoming greater as he ages and we are seeing those results.

As for Michael Floyd, he’s dealing with his own hand injury that saw him dislocate three fingers that punctured the skin on the palm of his hand. He’s missed the entire preseason with the injury, and is now catching “soft passes,” but this could damage his ability to play the ball this season. Even when healthy last year, Floyd caught fewer than 50% of his targets, which might mean a slightly reduced role in 2015.

Should one of these two miss time or prove ineffective this year, Jaron Brown should slide right into one of the outside wide receiver roles, and recoup value like he did when starting for Fitzgerald in Weeks 12 and 13 last season.