KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Broad receiver Hollywood Brown by no means thought of shifting on after his one transient season with the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs. Brown merely has an excessive amount of unfinished enterprise.
“I knew all alongside I wished to be again,” stated Brown, who re-signed with the Chiefs earlier than free company began on his second one-year contract. “They voiced their opinions, wanting me again … I do know had an awesome begin to my camp (earlier than) getting damage. All of us wished to see it come collectively. So glad we obtained it carried out.
“They know the kind of man I’m, the kind of work I put in and primarily that is one of many causes I obtained introduced again is as a result of a number of video games I performed, I used to be in a position to open issues up for the offense rather a lot.”
The Chiefs acquired Brown final 12 months together with rookie Xavier Worthy within the hope the 2 quick receivers may convey the massive play again to the passing recreation. The 2 have been to hitch Rashee Rice to provide the Chiefs what they believed can be their deepest group of wideouts in years.
The three have been by no means on the sphere on the similar time. Brown suffered a sternoclavicular harm on the primary play of the preseason and by the point he returned late within the common season, Rice was out for the 12 months with a knee harm.
Brown performed in simply two common season video games, catching 9 passes for 91 yards. He additionally performed in all three Chiefs postseason video games, getting 5 receptions for 50 yards.
The Chiefs nonetheless noticed sufficient from Brown to make his re-signing a precedence earlier than he was in a position to get on the free agent market.
“What impressed me a lot about Hollywood is that everyone informed me he was a quick man however not everybody informed me how a lot he can truly do on the soccer discipline and you might see it,” quarterback Patrick Mahomes stated. “He can run these over-the-middle routes. He can run actually good routes and he can run deep. It isn’t like quick is the one factor that he can do.”
Rice was main the league in catches with 24 when he was injured in Week 4. Worthy had a promising rookie season with 59 catches and 638 yards. He additionally scored 9 touchdowns.
The Chiefs re-signed Brown to provide the group of three receivers one other do this 12 months.
“The sky is the restrict,” Brown stated. “We speak on a regular basis about historical past … our historical past as a bunch, our historical past as particular person gamers and that is stuff we converse on and that is stuff we’re striving for via the offseason, via our coaching. We’re attempting to push one another to be one of the best. In the end I do really feel like we may do one thing that is by no means been carried out earlier than.”
That may depend upon Brown contributing because the Chiefs envision he’ll. Rice, the Chiefs’ prime broad receiver in 2023, and Worthy, their main wideout in 2024, are established in Kansas Metropolis.
Brown is the one who’s unproven, not less than in certainly one of their uniforms. However the Chiefs made no secret earlier than Brown was re-signed that they wished him again.
“Each time Hollywood catches the ball, it is only a burst of vitality,” tight finish Travis Kelce stated. “We missed that man rather a lot (throughout his harm). I used to be watching him in observe when he first obtained again. I used to be like, ‘That is it. That is the man.’ We missed that man.
“He is a type of guys that you might really feel his presence whenever you’re on the market on the sphere with him.”
Brown, 27, hasn’t performed a full NFL season due to accidents since 2021, when he was with the Baltimore Ravens. That season, he had profession highs with 91 catches and 1,008 yards.
He could not get these numbers for the Chiefs even when he performs for a full season. The Chiefs may even get the ball to Rice, Worthy, Kelce and others.
However Brown urged private stats weren’t a very powerful consideration in re-signing.
“I believe simply the atmosphere,” Brown stated. “The environment each day coming to work simply felt like for the primary time in my profession I used to be getting the place I wished to be each day, coming to work, getting higher and getting higher. So I knew that was a spot and atmosphere I wished to remain in.”
