Dyami Brown is back with the Washington Commanders for a second stint after a season in Jacksonville. Posting a workout video Friday, Brown declared, “That’s for the old me,” then said, “The new me gonna make it rain.” The receiver’s journey includes early-car
Dyami Brown stepped back into the picture in Washington with one clear message tucked into a workout video posted Friday.
At the end of the session, Brown took a swig of hydration and said, “That’s for the old me.” Then came the vow: “And the old me gets a drink of water. The new me gonna make it rain. Watch.”
For Commanders fans wondering whether Brandon Aiyuk will ever arrive, Brown’s return offers a different kind of focus—the kind that starts not with a new signing, but with a player insisting he’s ready to flip the script.
Brown entered the league as a 2021 third-round pick from North Carolina. His first season delivered real flashes: he posted 165 receiving yards on 12 catches in 15 games. In Year 2. he again appeared in 15 games. with 28.3 yards per catch—though the production took a hit when he finished with only five catches for 143 yards.
The pattern continued in 2023. Brown had 12 catches in 17 games for 168 yards. Even in a contract year, the totals still didn’t spike enough to create a clear market for him—30 catches for 308 yards wasn’t the kind of run that changes how teams see a player on the outside looking in.
Then the 2024 postseason arrived, and it looked like a different receiver.
In the wild-card win over the Buccaneers, Brown produced five catches on five targets for 89 yards and a touchdown. In the divisional upset win over the Lions, he drew eight targets and caught six for 98 yards. His momentum carried into the NFC Championship slaughter against the Eagles. where he added another 42 yards to finish the three-game postseason with 229 receiving yards—more yards than he had in his first three full seasons combined.
The offseason brought a change of scenery. Brown landed in Jacksonville, where coach Liam Coen said Brown would have a bigger role. The results didn’t match the plan. In 14 games with six starts, Brown saw 37 targets and caught 20 passes for 227 yards with one touchdown. He also recorded five drops—matching his total from four years in Washington.
Now he’s back with the Commanders for a second stint, signing a one-year, $1.75 million deal in the offseason. With the depth chart still led by Terry McLaurin. the situation has a clear shape: Treylon Burks is expected to be a starter. as is third-round rookie Antonio Williams. Brown is projected for now to be a second-string option.
That matters because the opportunity is there. And without Aiyuk, the door stays open for Brown to contribute in a way that Washington hasn’t consistently seen from him—until those postseason games when he looked locked in.
By the end of quarterback Jayden Daniels’s rookie season, chemistry had already formed. If the chemistry experiment between Daniels and Aiyuk has gone the way of Peter Brady’s volcano. Brown’s sixth NFL season could become his best shot to turn a “new me” moment into something that shows up in game logs.
For Brown, it isn’t about repeating the past. It’s about proving Friday’s words weren’t just motivation. “Watch,” he said—and now Washington will see if the new Dyami Brown can finally make it rain on Sundays.
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