Antonio Brown’s latest social media attack on Caleb Williams landed the same way his recent posts usually do: fast, ugly, and instantly condemned.
The former NFL wide receiver reacted to a SportsCenter clip showing Williams leaving the Bears’ loss to the Vikings with a hamstring injury and being carted off the field. Brown wrote, “All that for a pulled hammy?” and followed it with a homophobic slur aimed at Williams.
Williams’ exit had already rattled Bears fans on Sunday, with the Soldier Field crowd going quiet when the quarterback went down. Brown, though, turned the moment into another online flashpoint.
The backlash came quickly. One fan pushed back on the mockery by writing, “I’m not in the business of defending the Chi Bears, but maybe he wasn’t sure about the severity and was thinking he tore it and might be facing a long recovery etc? Social media is a plague on society.”
Others came at Brown by pointing to his own track record. “From you, of all people? GTFO,” one reply read, while another added, “You literally took your pads off and walked out in the middle of a game,” a reference to Brown’s infamous exit from a 2021 game with the Buccaneers.
Some responses used Brown’s own language against him. “Caleb’s a [slur]?
You started an OnlyFans, bro,” one fan wrote. Another asked, “how would you describe someone that left the field for hurt feelings?”
A different user told Brown he had “a one way ticket” to hell.
This wasn’t the first time Brown has gone after Williams. He previously mocked Williams’ painted nails in a post that he later apologized for, adding to the sense that the Bears quarterback has become a repeated target.
Brown has been doing this kind of thing for a while now. He recently used a similar slur toward Patriots receiver Mack Hollins after an unrelated comment about restaurant dress codes. He also went after Bills quarterback Josh Allen last year, mocking a report about Allen’s pistachio farm with nearly identical language and a doctored graphic.
The pattern has become familiar: Brown posts, fans pile on, and the cycle starts all over again.
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