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Steelers WR Antonio Brown sets world record

Antonio Brown accomplished a feat that no other person has ever been able to while messing around at mini camp today.

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Antonio Brown has been setting a lot of standards in the NFL for the past two years, but today he did something that no other person has ever accomplished in the world.  Albeit, it's not really something that a lot of people had tried, but still impressive when you think about it.

Working with ESPN's Sports Science, Antonio Brown caught a football dropped from a drone at the height of 360 feet, a world record altitude of anyone who's ever tried to catch a football. If that doesn't sound impressive to you, Sports Science breaks it down the factors that the ball can be nearly impossible to track with any wind, that the ball's maximum velocity in free fall from that point is 81 MPH and that Brown would only have a 0.3 second window of an opportunity to make the catch with it falling at that speed. Considering that a hard thrown NFL pass today is around 50 MPH, that's an insane velocity for his hands to handle.

Here is a quick vine of how the football was dropped from the drone:

You can watch the full video by clicking here.

Antonio Brown apparently isn't done doing things that people don't expect of him, so get ready for him to do even more amazing things in 2015.