Antonio Brown is at it again, and this time Caleb Williams was the target.
Williams left the Bears’ loss to the Vikings on Sunday with a hamstring injury, and the moment was enough to quiet the Soldier Field crowd as he rode off on a cart. Brown responded to a SportsCenter clip of the scene with a post that read, “All that for a pulled hammy?” before attaching a homophobic slur aimed at Williams.
The reaction online came fast and it wasn’t kind to Brown. Plenty of replies went straight at his credibility, with fans pointing to his own career and behavior as the reason his criticism landed so badly.
“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,” one fan wrote.
“From you, of all people? GTFO,” another said, calling back to Brown’s history of leaving games early during his playing days.
“You literally took your pads off and walked out in the middle of a game,” a third fan posted, referencing Brown’s infamous exit from a 2021 game with the Buccaneers.
Some replies turned Brown’s own words back on 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?”
One more told Brown he had “a one way ticket” to hell.
The post fit a pattern that’s been building for a while. Brown recently used a similar slur toward Patriots receiver Mack Hollins after an unrelated comment about restaurant dress codes, and he aimed nearly identical language at Josh Allen last year in a post tied to a doctored graphic about Allen’s pistachio farm.
Williams has also been in Brown’s crosshairs before. Brown previously mocked Williams’ painted nails in a post that he later apologized for, making Williams a recurring target in Brown’s social media attacks.
For now, the response to Brown’s latest outburst looks a lot like the rest of them: immediate backlash, a flood of criticism, and no sign that it’s changing how he posts.
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