Hollywood Brown Has Strong Message About Past Trade Request From The Baltimore Ravens
Marquise “Hollywood” Brown signed with the Kansas City Chiefs last week. The wide receiver has no regrets about his less-than-smooth journey to where he is today.
The Chiefs signed Brown to a one-year contract last week to join their wide receiver corps. The 26-year-old has spent the previous two seasons with the Arizona Cardinals.
Brown joined the Cardinals after submitting a trade request in 2021 while playing for the Baltimore Ravens. Brown has sought to leave the team that chose him in the first round of the 2019 NFL Draft.
Hollywood Brown has no regrets about his trade request from Baltimore.
Ravens in 2021
Brown addressed the media on Monday after being officially introduced as a Chiefs member. One reporter questioned him if he still believed the trade request was the “right decision” for him in retrospect.
Brown felt convinced that everything had gone as planned (6:11 mark).
“Yeah, I feel like that was the best decision for me,” Brown told Myles Simmons of Pro Football Talk. “At the end of the day, if you’re unhappy with yourself or with what’s going on, you can’t perform well on the field. So I feel like my time at Arizona, I mean, I didn’t do all I wanted to on the field. But as
a man, I grew — I grew closer with God, I grew closer in my relationship with my family. And I feel like God put me in that situation because I needed it.”
Brown saw his numbers drop as a member of the Cardinals. He recorded 118 catches for 1,283 receiving yards and 7 touchdowns across 26 games in his two seasons in Arizona. In contrast, Brown tallied 149 catches for 1,777 receiving yards and 14 touchdowns over 32 games in his last two seasons with the Ravens.
But Brown believes that he grew in other areas, which more than made up for his slight decline in on-field production. It also didn’t help that the Cardinals’ starting QB Kyler Murray was injured for most of the year.
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