Chiefs WR Hollywood Brown vows to get back to 'best self'

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Wide receiver Hollywood Brown had his astir productive NFL twelvemonth the past clip helium stayed steadfast for a afloat season, successful 2021. It wasn't a astonishment erstwhile Brown laid retired his apical precedence for 2025.

"Healthy season,'' Brown said arsenic the Kansas City Chiefs began their mandatory mini-camp connected Tuesday. "It's my fig 1 goal. Just being capable to truly showcase what I tin do. That's each I'm looking to do.''

Brown, who volition beryllium entering his seventh season, caught a career-high 91 passes and topped 1,000 receiving yards for the lone clip successful his vocation successful 2021, erstwhile helium played for the Baltimore Ravens. In the consequent 2 seasons, helium played successful 12 and 14 games for the Arizona Cardinals earlier appearing successful conscionable 2 regular play and 3 playoff games past year, his archetypal with the Chiefs.

Brown suffered a sternoclavicular wounded portion making a drawback from Patrick Mahomes connected the archetypal play of the preseason. Brown had country and didn't instrumentality until soon earlier Christmas, frankincense ruining what could person been a promising debut play for him with the Chiefs.

"You each saw it successful grooming camp, however peculiar of a shot subordinate helium is,'' Mahomes said. "He did everything the close way, was successful the gathering early, was successful the gathering late, was teaching different guys. For him to get injured successful benignant of a freak woody determination successful the archetypal play of the preseason, it stunk. I was blessed to person him backmost astatine the extremity of the play and him to get backmost wrong the offense.

"Now with hopefully him having the afloat offseason and grooming campy and staying steadfast and continuing to combat through, his relation volition grow adjacent more. It's benignant of hard to propulsion guys successful astatine the extremity of the play and effort to springiness them a immense role. I deliberation you tin spot erstwhile helium gets the shot successful his hands and helium has a immense relation successful our offense, it makes everybody go.''

Brown caught 9 passes for 91 yards for the Chiefs successful the regular play and 5 much for 50 yards successful the playoffs. Those numbers were hardly what helium and the Chiefs expected erstwhile helium signed arsenic a escaped agent.

"I wasn't my champion self, for sure,'' Brown said. "I was coming backmost truly conscionable trying to assistance whichever mode I could and that was my mindset and that helped maine transportation maine done the extremity of past year. So I was conscionable truly grateful that I adjacent had the accidental to travel back."

Brown said returning to play was adjuvant successful that helium should beryllium amended disconnected this play having had the experience. He's portion of a apical radical of wideouts that besides includes Rashee Rice and Xavier Worthy, a receiving radical Brown said was "the champion I've been a portion of.''

"It was a bully modulation backmost into football,'' Brown said of past season's instrumentality to the lineup. "But present being capable to bid and physique my assemblage the mode I privation to, I've been enjoying it, enjoying the process.''