Reid: Hollywood Brown not expected to play in season-opener against Ravens

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - The Kansas City Chiefs will be without one of their offseason additions in the wide receiver room when they begin the 2024 season next Thursday.

Chiefs head coach Andy Reid told reporters wide receiver Hollywood Brown would be unlikely to play in Week 1 because of an injury he suffered on the first play of Kansas City’s first preseason game this season.

“I don’t think we’ll have Hollywood this week,” Reid said Friday, as the Chiefs begin their altered game-week schedule for the Thursday, Sept. 5, opener against the Baltimore Ravens.

Brown suffered a sternoclavicular posterior dislocation after being tackled following an 11-yard reception on his first play in a Chiefs uniform. The injury sent Brown to a Jacksonville-area hospital and had an expected 3-4 week recovery period.

Four weeks from the Saturday, Aug. 10 injury date would be Saturday, Sept. 7.

“Hollywood won’t be back this week and we’ll just see how it goes,” Reid said. “The kid is amazing, his progress has been incredible, but I wouldn’t predict him being there this week.”

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This off-season, Brown signed a one-year deal with the Chiefs. A 2019 first-round pick by the Ravens, the Oklahoma product spent the past two seasons with the Arizona Cardinals.

In 72 career games, Brown has 3,644 receiving yards. Without him for Thursday’s rematch of last season’s AFC Championship Game, Kansas City will need first-round pick Xavier Worthy to step up, along with recent free agent g Juju Smith-Schuster, who re-ed the Chiefs following a year with the New England Patriots.

“What I’ve seen is (Patrick Mahomes and Worthy) have a pretty good thing going,” Reid said. “We’ll just see how it goes when things are flying here fast and furious. The other guys (Mahomes) has a history with and knows.”

Worthy was selected 28th overall in the 2024 NFL Draft with a pick Kansas City traded up with the Buffalo Bills to make.

“I like what I’ve seen,” Reid said of the Texas product. “You wanna see how they’ll do in the games, but you think he’ll probably do OK.”

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