Here are 10 things you probably didn't know about Eagles new receiver Hollywood Brown.
The Eagles have a new wide receiver and he’s an interesting guy with a fun nickname, unique postseason success and a world of speed and an interesting job history. Marquise “Hollywood” Brown, originally a 1st-round pick of the Ravens in 2019, signed a one-year contract with the Eagles on Tuesday.
Brown grew up in Hollywood, Florida, but wasn’t tagged as Hollywood Brown until 2017, when Gus Johnson gave him the nickname while calling an Oklahoma-Kansas State game. Johnson has said when Brown had a big catch he was unsure how to pronounce his first name, so he glanced at the Oklahoma roster, saw his hometown and immediately dubbed him “Hollywood Brown.” As a kid, Brown played Pop Warner football in the same league as Lamar Jackson, his future NFL quarterback with the Ravens.As a 140-pound wide receiver as a high school senior, Brown didn’t receive any scholarship offers out of high school and wound up at a JUCO, College of the Canyons in Santa Clarita, California, outside Los Angeles. Because he wasn’t on scholarship, he spent that year working at Six Flags Magic Mountain in nearby Valencia. In his one year playing for the College of the Canyons Cougars he caught 50 passes for 754 yards and 10 touchdowns, including a career-high 151 yards in a win over Orange Coast of Costa Mesa.Brown spent two years at Oklahoma, the first with Baker Mayfield as his quarterback and the second with Kyler Murray. He missed Jalen Hurts at Oklahoma, but he did play with future Eagles Grant Calcaterra, Trey Sermon and Kennedy Brooks. As a freshman in 2017, Brown caught 57 passes for 1,095 yards and a 19.2 average with seven TDs. In 2018, he was 75-for-1,318 for a 17.6 average with 10 TDs. During that two-year span, his 18.3 average was 2nd-highest in the BCS, behind only future Eagle Hakeem Butler of Iowa State. His 2,413 yards during those two years were 3rd-most in college football, behind only Andy Isabella of U. Mass and A.J. Brown of Ole Miss .In a 62-52 win over Oklahoma State in Stillwater on Nov. 4, 2017, Brown caught nine passes for 265 yards. That broke the school record of 232 set by Dede Westbrook in a 45-40 win over Texas in 2016. Brown also had a 243-yard game in 2018 in a 59-56 win over West Virginia in Morgantown. That made him only the second Big 12 player with more than one 240-yard game. Dezmon Briscoe of Kansas had 269 yards against Oklahoma in 2008 and 242 yards against Missouri in 2009. No othr Big 12 Conference player had that many yards until Tetairoa McMillan of Arizona had 304 in a win over New Mexico in 2024.The Ravens drafted Brown with the 25th pick in the 2019 draft, making him the first receiver taken that year. He spent his first three seasons with the Ravens, catching 195 passes for 2,361 yards and 21 touchdowns, including a 1,000-yard season in 2021, the first by a Raven since former Eagle Mike Wallace had 1,017 in 2016.In his NFL postseason debut, Brown seven catches for 126 yards in the Ravens’ 2019 conference semifinal loss to the Titans in Baltimore. He remains the 4th-youngest player in NFL history with 125 yards in a postseason game. Jeremy Maclin, who was 21 year, 243 days when he had 146 yards in Dallas in 2009, is the youngest. Those 126 yards remain the most ever by a Raven in his playoff debut. The previous high was Mark Clayton’s 76 yards in a conference semifinal loss to the Colts in 2007.Brown had 109 yards in his second postseason game, a 20-13 win over the Titans in Nashville in 2020, making him one of only 11 players in NFL history with 100 or more yards in each of his first two playoff games. . Among the others are Dwight Clark, Sterling Sharpe and former Eagles Jabar Gaffney and Kevin Curtis. Brown’s 235 combined yards in his first two playoff games are 11th-most in NFL history. Going one game farther, Brown had 87 yards in his third playoff game, a loss in Buffalo in 2020. His 322 yards are 12th-most all-time by a player in his first three playoff games.Brown asked to be traded after the 2021 season and on April 28, 2022 – the same day the Titans traded A.J. Brown to the Eagles - the Ravens shipped Marquise Brown and a 3rd-round pick to the Cards for a 1st-round pick. He was reunited with Murray in Arizona and was off to a hot start in 2022 with 485 yards through Week 6, 8th-most in the NFL. But he broke his foot in a loss in Seattle and missed five games and finished the season with 67-for-709 and three TDs.Brown signed with the Chiefs before the 2024 season. He missed all but two games in 2024 but came back healthy last year and had 49 catches for 587 yards and five TDs.Before his foot injury midway through the 2022 season, Brown averaged 4.7 catches for 58 yards per game with 24 touchdowns. Since his foot injury he’s averaged 3.3 catches for 36 yards with nine touchdowns.Brown hosts an annual Hollywood Brown Day for several hundred area youths in his hometown in Florida through his Hollywood Brown Foundation: “I’m an open book to the kids and let them ask me whatever is on their minds. I’m going to show the kids that through hard work they an be where I’m at,” he said in an interview with the South Florida Sun Sentinel of Fort Lauderdale. In 2021, Brown received a key to the city.From 2019 through 2025, Brown had the 43rd-most total receptions in the league. But he had the 18th-most 40-yard catches with 16. Those 16 catches came from five different quarterbacks: Lamar Jackson , Trace McSorley , Patrick Mahomes , Shane Buechele and Joshua Dobbs .
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