Tag: Marquise Brown

WATCH: Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes throws to Marquise Brown in offseason workout

Check out this video of #Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes throwing to Marquise ‘Hollywood’ Brown in an offseason workout

The 2024 NFL season is months away, but Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes didn’t want to wait much longer to test his arm with his new wide receiver. The three-time Super Bowl MVP was back on the field showing off his arm in a video with his newly signed teammate Marquise “Hollywood” Brown.

Mahomes posted a video of him tossing passes to Brown on his Instagram account and a highlight reel of a suspected independent workout. The video was accompanied by the Big Sean song Precision, and it appeared that the new teammates were already in sync.

The pair was spotted working out with trainer Bobby Stroupe last month, so a positive bond seems to have formed well before organized team activities.

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Skyy Moore is also featured in the video. After a rough 2023, he hopes to significantly contribute to the team’s offensive plans in the upcoming season.

The Chiefs could still be in the market for a wide receiver during this month’s NFL Draft, but it’s good to see the current crop getting some early work under their belts.

Andy Reid is confident WR Marquise ‘Hollywood’ Brown’s speed will benefit Chiefs’ offense

#Chiefs head coach Andy Reid expressed his confidence that Marquise “Hollywood” Brown’s speed will benefit Kansas City’s offense

The Kansas City Chiefs are focused on improving their quality of play at the wide receiver position heading into the 2024 season. Marquise Hollywood Brown’s signing at the start of free agency is a significant step towards fixing some issues plaguing the group last season.

Chiefs head coach Andy Reid is in Florida for the NFL’s annual meetings this week. According to CBS Sports’ Jeff Kerr, he discussed Brown’s signing and its potential impact on the offense.

“I think Marquise gives you that speed element on the outside, or inside, for that matter,” Reid explained. “He’s played all the different spots. I think he’s a smart kid. He’ll complement with Rashee [Rice] and Trav [Travis Kelce] well.”

In 2023, the Chiefs’ receivers suffered from too many drops and unforced errors, leading many to criticize the personnel choices. In his rookie season, Rice emerged as a budding star in the offense, and Brown could be the proven veteran needed alongside him in the receivers room.

“I gotta see how he does. I think his main thing is just staying healthy. It’s been an issue up to this point,” said Reid. “He looks like he’s in great shape. He’s in a good frame of mind.”

Brown has a reputation for making big plays and has the personality to fit in with the many characters in the Chiefs locker room. Coaches, players, and fans have good reason to be excited about their chances at a three-peat.

Marquise ‘Hollywood’ Brown on choosing Chiefs: ‘Pat was a big part of it’

Marquise “Hollywood” Brown told reporters that Patrick Mahomes was a key reason why he chose to sign with the #Chiefs as a free agent.

The Kansas City Chiefs’ wide receivers left much to be desired last season, and general manager Brett Veach has made sure to upgrade his team’s weapons on the outside in free agency.

Kansas City inked former Baltimore Ravens and Arizona Cardinals wideout Marquise Brown to a one-year, $7 million deal last week, marking Veach’s first major investment at the position.

The 26-year-old receiver addressed the media for the first time since signing with the Chiefs on Monday, and made it clear why he chose Kansas City over other teams that were interested in him.

“Pat [Mahomes] was a big part of it, being able to play with Pat, [Head] Coach [Andy] Reid, a winning culture,” Brown explained. “The offense… I felt like I could come in and I could help, I could fit in. All those things played a part, they were strong on me so there was mutual interest, that is very appealing.”

Brown continued, elaborating on Mahomes’ skill set and what the Super Bowl MVP does that made him excited to play for the Chiefs.

“The arm talent, the deep arm talent — it speaks for itself,” Brown said. “What can’t he do? He can extend plays, whatever he has to do to win a game I feel like I’ve watched him do it. From making those big plays to methodically moving down the field, to using his feet, to playing injured. Those are all qualities and traits of a guy you want to play for.”

Brown’s excitement to play in Kansas City was evident. Paired with Andy Reid, Mahomes, Travis Kelce, and Rashee Rice, the sky is the limit for Brown as he endeavors to earn a high-dollar contract next year after playing on a one-season prove-it deal with the Chiefs.

Hooray for Hollywood: Good Guy lands with Super Bowl champs

Brown is excited to show things with the Chiefs he hasn’t shown in his career yet. He is betting on himself.

Hollywood, we hardly knew you.

Yes, we knew wide receiver Marquise (Hollywood) Brown well enough for the local chapter of the PFWA to award him the Steve Schoenfeld Good Guy Award for his cooperation with the media during the 2023 season.

However, on the field, things never worked out as expected after the Cardinals acquired him from the Ravens during the first round of the 2022 draft.

If truth be told, the Cardinals are where they are now in large part because of the six-game suspension levied on wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins shortly before the draft that year.

Coming off an 11-6 playoff season, the team was in a tough spot. Knowing they would be without Hopkins at the start of the season, rather than add center Tyler Linderbaum with their No. 1 pick, the decision was made to add Brown, who had requested a trade after a season in which he caught 91 passes for 1,008 yards and six touchdowns and would be reunited with quarterback Kyler Murray, his teammate at Oklahoma.

You know what they say about best-laid plans. As the days were being counted down to Week 7, when Brown and Hopkins would be on the field together, Brown suffered a foot injury late in Week 6 against the Seahawks and missed the next five games.

The Cardinals defeated New Orleans in Hopkins’ season debut to move to 3-4, but won one game the remainder of the season. When Brown returned, he played essentially one game with Murray, who tore his ACL early in the next game against the Patriots.

Last season, with Hopkins off to Tennessee and Murray rehabbing his knee, Brown played five games with Murray, but in two, he played limited snaps grinding through another foot injury before missing the final three games.

In all, the expected dynamic duo played a total of 10 healthy games together.

In his two Cardinals seasons that totaled 26 games, Brown had 118 receptions for 1,283 yards and seven scores.

There was the thought that he might return on a one-year, incentive-laden contract, but the lure of the Chiefs was too enticing.

Brown told the Kansas City media Monday he informed his agent as free agency approached that he was interested in the Chiefs. The interest was mutual and Brown bet on himself (and quarterback Patrick Mahomes), signing a one-year, $7 million contract that includes $6.5 million guaranteed and $4 million of incentives. His salary cap charge is $8.206 million.

“When the Chiefs are interested in you, it’s like, alright, you’ve gotta take a look at that,” Brown said. “Of course, I can go get some money at other places. But at the end of the day, it’s about winning. It’s about what I want. And I feel like everything just worked out the way it should.

“It was other opportunities out there for sure. But I’m happy with the decision. I’m happy where I’m at. And at the end of the day, I’m a kid that comes from nothing. So the amount of money I’ve made so far in my life is a blessing to me. But I’m a football player, you know? I want to play football, I want to win, I want to be part of a winner. And that’s why I’m here.”

The Chiefs released speedy receiver Marquez Valdes-Scantling on Feb. 28 after a season in which he had a mere 21 receptions for 315 yards (15.0 average) and one touchdown.

As Brown concluded, “I feel like I can affect all three levels of the game — short, intermediate, and deep. I feel like at times in Baltimore and in Arizona, I showed facets of things that I can do, but not on a consistent basis. So I feel like here, it’s guys around, interchangeable. We can complete each other. And that way, the best can come out of everyone.

“Being in this system, I feel like I’ll be able to showcase my skill set. I still feel like there’s a lot of my game that I really haven’t gotten to show people. And that’s probably what I’m excited about the most being here, is to just put my best foot forward and show what I can do.”

Hopefully, for him, that foot will be healed and hold up. If it does, too bad he won’t be doing it here, but the Cardinals move on in the reset that truly began 23 months ago.

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Hollywood Brown’s contract with Chiefs very reasonable

The former Cardinals WR gets a nice one-year deal that pays him up to $11 million based on playing time, touchdowns and receiving yards.

The Arizona Cardinals lost receiver Marquise Brown in free agency to the Kansas City Chiefs. Brown got a one-year deal to join the defending champions.

The details of the contract are out, shared by Albert Breer.

It is basically a one-year, $7 million deal.

He gets a $3 million signing bonus and a base salary of $3.5 million. He will get a $250,000 workout bonus for participating in the offseason program at the team facility. He can make up to $250,000 in per-game roster bonuses.

That is the $7 million.

He can earn up to $4 million in incentives.

Up to $1 million comes in touchdowns. He will make $500K for five scores, $750K for six and the full $1 million for seven touchdowns.

Up to $1.5 million comes in playing time. If he plays 45% of the Chiefs’ offensive snaps, he will make $500K. That goes up to $625K if he reaches 52.5%, then to $750K if he reaches 60% and a mac of $1.5 million for 75% of the snaps.

Another $1.5 million can be earned through yardage. He will make $500K for 500 yards, $625K for 625 yards, $750K for 750 yards and the full $1.5 million if he reaches 1,000 on the season.

These terms look like a deal the Cardinals easily could have made if they wanted him back, unless he was only willing to structure the deal like that for the defending champs and to be able to play with Patrick Mahomes.

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Chiefs WR Marquise Brown is expecting big things in Andy Reid’s system

#Chiefs WR Marquise “Hollywood” Brown told reporters that he is expecting to do big things in Andy Reid’s system

The Kansas City Chiefs prioritized adding a game-changing wide receiver this offseason, and it appears they have found their guy. Marquise “Hollywood” Brown prefers to be called by his nickname, as he’s proven to thrive in the spotlight in his career.

The Chiefs’ new star wide receiver spoke with the media for the first since signing with Kansas City on Monday. He shared his reasons for choosing the Chiefs over several other offers around the league.

“I feel like I can move around and do different things and stretch the field, and there are guys here,” Brown said. “Guys [like], [Travis] Kelce, the running backs, [Rashee] Rice, [Kadarius] Toney. There are weapons here. I just feel like I can come in [and] my game can complement the guys they have here. And Coach [Andy] Reid, he’s a mastermind, and Patrick Mahomes. I’m excited to work with everyone.”

Brown was effective for a struggling Arizona Cardinals team in his last two seasons. In Arizona, Brown had 118 receptions for 1,283 yards and seven touchdowns. He looks forward to more significant numbers and less double coverage in Kansas City.

“Being in this system, I feel like I’ll be able to showcase my skill set; I still feel like there’s a lot of my game that I really haven’t got to show people,” said Brown. “That’s probably what I’m excited about the most being here; it’s to just put my best foot forward and show what I can do.”

Chiefs head coach Andy Reid has always found a way to get speedy receivers the ball and out in space throughout his legendary career. Brown opened up more about his screenshot of his text message to the franchise’s winningest coach during recruitment.

“I mean, his track record really speaks for itself. He don’t really gotta pitch you on anything,” said Brown, “Real talk about what’s gonna happen, what was going on? That’s pretty much what landed me here.”

Brown should see a significant uptick in his production playing alongside his new teammates and in the Chiefs system.

Photo Gallery: Kyler Murray and Marquise Brown moments from Oklahoma and NFL

Best photos of former Sooners Marquise Brown and Kyler Murray together.

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There’s just something about a bond between teammates that draws you together long after you’ve played together. When teammates from college head to the NFL, it’s kinda rare that they get the opportunity to continue playing together.

Though recent drafts have bucked the trend with Ja’Marr Chase joining Joe Burrow in Cincinnati and Jaylen Waddle joining Tua Tagovailoa in Miami, you don’t often see quarterbacks and wide receivers from college on the same team.

Kyler Murray and Marquise Brown had the opportunity to play together for two seasons in Arizona. Now a free agent, Brown is heading to Kansas City to join Creed Humphrey, Patrick Mahomes, and the Kansas City Chiefs.

Though they’re no longer teammates, the bond the two have shared over the years carried over to social media as Kyler Murray reacted to the news.

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Will an NFL team overpay for Hollywood Brown next week?

Howard Balzer takes a look at the situation for the Cardinals and receiver Marquise “Hollywood” Brown.

With the free agent wide receiver group having been diminished by Mike Evans re-signing with Tampa Bay at $20.5 million per year, and Tee Higgins and Michael Pittman Jr. being franchise tagged by Cincinnati and Indianapolis, respectively ($21.8 million tender), there is a school of thought that Arizona Cardinals pass-catcher Hollywood Brown will get a boatload of money when the free agent negotiating period begins Monday at 9 a.m. Arizona time.

It could happen, although it shouldn’t. That’s no knock on the speedy 5-foot-9 Brown. It would simply be an extreme leap of faith for any team to empty their cash bucket on a player who has missed eight games over the last two seasons and averaged 10.9 yards per catch on 118 catches for 1,283 yards and scored only seven touchdowns.

Yes, Brown played only 12 of his 26 Cardinals games with Kyler Murray at quarterback and a few were late in the 2023 season when he tried to grind through a foot injury. However, it wouldn’t be prudent for any team, much less the Cardinals, to agree with Spotrac and lavish $15 million a year on Brown although average per year isn’t as important as guaranteed money.

Of course, we also know that former Cardinals wideout Christian Kirk signed a four-year, $72 million contract with the Jaguars two years ago that included $37 million fully guaranteed.

The first 10 days of the league year are highlighted by teams overpaying to get their guy(s) and much of it ends up being money wasted.

If that doesn’t happen, is there a path for Brown to re-sign with the Cardinals. There is, if he’s willing to sign a 1-year, prove-it contract worth around the $13.4 million he made last season and that includes an incentive package to make more. Do that, stay healthy and produce, and Brown would be in line for a big payday in 2025 when he will be 28 years old.

Asked at the combine if he hopes to have Brown back and if he has talked to Murray about it, head coach Jonathan Gannon said, “Yeah, I talk to Kyler about everything. Yeah, absolutely. But again, there’s an economic piece to that. That’ll sort out as we get going here.”

It will likely sort itself out relatively quickly.

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7 standout wide receivers Patriots could still target in free agency

With Tee Higgins and Mike Evans off the table, here are seven standout free agent receivers the Patriots could still target

The wide receiver market is thinning in free agency with Cincinnati Bengals wideout Tee Higgins being franchise tagged and Mike Evans signing a two-year deal to stay with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Those are two big-ticket options gone for the receiver-needy New England Patriots.

But there’s no need to hit the panic button. There are still plenty of wide receiver options that could give the Patriots a major boost in free agency. Some even have the potential to sit at the top of the depth chart in the coveted No. 1 receiving role.

With Higgins and Evans off the table, here are seven standout receivers the Patriots could still pursue in free agency.

Hollywood Brown is lone Cardinals player among top free agents

Brown is the only Cardinals player to make the top 101 free agents list, coming in at No. 37.

The Arizona Cardinals have 17 players set to be unrestricted free agents if no new deals are agreed to by the start of the new league year next week. However, almost none of them will be highly coveted players.

In fact, based on Touchdown Wire’s rankings of the top 101 free agents in the NFL, only one Cardinals player even makes the list.

That player is receiver Marquise “Hollywood” Brown.

He comes in at No. 37.

Brown, a former No. 1 draft pick who has a 1,000-yard season under his belt, had a disappointing 2023. He missed the final three games of the season with a heel injury and labored through it for three games before that. He finished the season with only 51 catches for 574 yards and four touchdowns.

The numbers were misleading. While he did not have a reception after Week 12, the film will tell you another story. He regularly beat the players covering him, but Cardinals quarterbacks struggled getting him accurate passes for him to catch.

He has missed eight games in the last two seasons with foot injuries.

We will see if he garners interest from a team wanting to sign him to a long-term deal.

He would like to return. Kyler Murray would like him to return. The team would like him to be back but it will come down to price.

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