Hollywood Brown’s quest for a Super Bowl title is nearly complete after the Kansas City Chiefs once again won the AFC Championship. Brown will make his first Super Bowl appearance this season after a six-year journey, including three different teams and a long injured reserve stint to start the 2024 season.
After Kansas City’s win, Lamar Jackson, Brown’s former teammate in Baltimore, took to Instagram to congratulate the AFC champion.

Lamar Jackson Has 5-Word Message for Hollywood Brown
The Baltimore Ravens drafted Hollywood Brown with the 25th overall pick in the 2019 NFL Draft. He was the first wide receiver selected that year and was a Day 1 starter in Baltimore, recording 147 yards and two touchdowns in his NFL debut.
His best season as a Raven was 2021, when he totaled 91 receptions for 1,008 yards and six touchdowns. The combination of Brown and Jackson was supposed to bring Baltimore to the Super Bowl but tough playoff defeats in 2019 and 2020 and missing the postseason in 2021 left a void on the trophy mantle.
After the 2021 season, Brown made it known he was unhappy with the direction of the Baltimore offense and requested a trade. The Ravens traded Brown and a third-round pick to Arizona for the Cardinals’ first-round selection in the 2022 NFL Draft.
Despite only playing together for three years, Jackson still has love for his former teammate, writing, “Congratulations bra, let’s get it,” on a post of Brown holding the Lamar Hunt Trophy.
Brown’s Journey From Baltimore to the Super Bowl
Brown’s arrival in Arizona meant a reunion with his quarterback at the University of Oklahoma, Kyler Murray. The Cardinals exercised Brown’s fifth-year option, but injuries prevented him from reaching the statistical heights he had in Baltimore.
Brown missed five games in 2022 with a fractured foot and did not play in the final three games of the 2023 season because of a heel injury. Brown was held under 70 receptions and 710 yards both seasons and the team missed the playoffs each year. The Cardinals did not sign him to a long-term deal, and the receiver became a free agent during the 2024 offseason.
Despite winning back-to-back Super Bowls, Kansas City was looking to add to its receiving corps heading into 2024 and signed Brown to a one-year, $7 million contract in mid-March. This was less money than Brown was offered elsewhere, but he couldn’t turn down the opportunity to play for a Super Bowl with the Chiefs.
Brown fit in well on paper with Rashee Rice and eventual first-round pick Xavier Worthy, but he suffered a sternoclavicular injury in the preseason and was placed on injured reserve in early September. This kept him sidelined until Week 16, when he finally made his Chiefs debut.
Rice tore a ligament in his knee late in September so the Chiefs traded for veteran receiver DeAndre Hopkins mid-season. Hopkins, Brown, and Worthy, Kansas City’s top three receiving options, are all looking for their first rings.
It’s been a long journey for Brown, but he’s one more win away from a championship.