Kansas City Chiefs head coach Andy Reid provided the much-anticipated update to the media on Monday about ‘Hollywood’ Brown’s injury status. The newly signed Chiefs wide receiver spent time in the hospital early after he left Saturday’s preseason game against the Jacksonville Jaguars.
“Hollywood (Brown), they were able to get the joint back into place without surgery, which is a positive,” said Reid. “Then we’ll just see how the recovery is back in Kansas City now. He stayed over in Jacksonville until they got that thing situated.”
Brown suffered a sternoclavicular joint dislocation during his lone series with the first team to start the game, drawing comparisons to Tyreek Hill’s injury in 2019 while he was a member of the Chiefs. The positive result of not needing surgery is a sigh of relief as Reid would go on to discuss plans without the veteran receiver for the immediate future.
“The positive there is that he’s going to be back, without him in there. His experience and in that in the league, but we’ve also got other guys who can step in and play well, we will be okay there,” said Reid. “It’s just we’re pulling for him to get back on. We’ll see how that goes.”
Brown is unlikely to appear again in the preseason and will be evaluated before the Chiefs start the regular season on September 5th against his former team, the Baltimore Ravens.