Hollywood Brown’s run with the Eagles is ending almost as quickly as it began.
According to Jordan Schultz of the Schultz Report, the team is releasing Brown by mutual consent of the player and the team Thursday night. After signing a one-year, $5 million deal in March, Brown was supposed to be part of the solution in Philadelphia’s passing game. Instead, he leaves after four games and five catches.
The fit never really took hold. Even with A.J.
Brown gone and DeVonta Smith and Dontayvion Wicks sidelined for much of the season, Brown never became a featured piece. He appeared in only four of the Eagles’ nine games, drew nine targets, and finished with five receptions for 63 yards.
He also had two rushing attempts for 12 yards. His longest catch went for 19 yards from Tanner McKee in the loss to the Cowboys, and that game doubled as his best production day with 30 yards.
Brown had already made clear he was frustrated with how little he was used. In a recent conversation with NBC Sports Philadelphia, he said:
“Of course, you want to be somewhere where you play, but at the ultimate end of the day, it’s not my plan. So I might want to play, I might want to contribute, but if that’s not the plan for me, I can’t dwell on it too much or you’ll be unhappy.
And then you’re taking that back home. I can’t take that back home to the wife and kids.
So I gotta try to stay as positive as I can.”
When asked how that was going, he laughed and said, “Some days better than others.”
He added: “We’re all dealing with something and we’re dealing with something as a team. So I don’t wanna add that extra stress.”
Brown also said he had expected a larger role, but was trying to keep things in perspective.
“I did (expect a bigger role), but I do understand stuff happens,” he said. “I mean, you can’t take anything personal in this business, so you kind of just got to go about your process and when that time happens, whatever happens, you’ve just got to be ready for it.”
A first-round pick in 2019, Brown has had productive stretches before arriving in Philadelphia. He posted a 1,000-yard season for the Ravens in 2021 and topped 700 yards in both 2020 and 2022.
Last season, he went 49-for-587 with five touchdowns. For his career, he has 378 catches for 4,385 yards and 33 touchdowns.
The move comes during a rough stretch for the Eagles, who are 2-7 and riding a seven-game losing streak. Their offense ranks 32nd in the league in yards per game, 30th in points per game and 29th in passing yards per game.
With Brown gone, the Eagles’ healthy receivers are rookie first-round pick Makai Lemon, second-year undrafted free agent Darius Cooper and Elijah Moore. Smith and Wicks have both missed the last two games, though they could return after the bye week.
Lemon leads the team with 37 catches for 312 yards and a touchdown. Smith follows at 26-310-2, Wicks at 19-284-1 and Cooper at 13-200-4.
The team also has two receivers on the practice squad, Erik Ezukanma and Xavier Gipson.
Because the deadline has passed, Brown will go through the waiver claim process even though he is a vested veteran with seven years of pension credit.
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