Antonio Brown found himself back in the news cycle this week and, according to his camp, he could land an NFL deal in the near future. In a statement provided to Tom Pelissero of NFL.com (Twitter link), Brown’s attorney said that the wide receiver’s no contest plea should clear the way for his return to football.
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“With this matter now resolved and behind him, Mr. Brown looks forward to continuing his cooperation with the NFL and resuming his phenomenal professional career,” attorney Carson Hancock said. “He has achieved so much throughout his life from both a personal and professional standpoint, and will continue to do so.”
Brown was facing one felony charge and two misdemeanor charges for his January incident with a delivery driver. The driver said that a verbal dispute over payment turned physical when Brown assaulted him. Hancock believes that it should have been resolved as a civil matter, but also felt that the no contest plea was Brown’s quickest path back to the field.
Brown, meanwhile, hinted at a deal being in the works with an NFL team in an Instagram post on Friday. In the interest of equal time: We’ve been here before with Brown. Brown’s former rep Drew Rosenhaus routinely claimed that Brown was receiving lots of NFL interest even as lawsuits, charges, and troubling social media posts emerged on a near-weekly basis. Eventually, Rosenhaus parted ways with Brown, leading the longtime Steelers star to a new agent.
Brown, 32 in July, has caught 841 passes for 11,253 yards over the course of his ten-year career, which includes seven Pro Bowl appearances. Despite all of the red flags, Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson and Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson have publicly advocated for their respective teams to sign him.
Even if he is made eligible he wouldn’t last long: unless he deletes his Twitter account
I thought the same thing about trump
Well, we all deserve 2nd chances. I think if he gets professional help with anger management and whatever else he should be fine. Antonio is such a tremendous athlete…
Only this isn’t his “second chance.” He’s squandered three opportunities and proved cancerous to multiple organizations. If you really want to deal with this head case go ahead, but I wouldn’t touch him with a 39.5 foot pole
2nd chance? That was a few years ago
Still has that whole sexual assault thing too….
Are you referring to the civil suit, the possibility of NFL discipline, or just the public perception to be weighed in deciding to sign Brown? Any one could be a qualifying answer, but I believe the suit was settled.
not Seattle not Seattle not Seattle!!
Not Baltimore not Baltimore not Baltimore!!
CFL CFL CFL !!!
Oh it won’t be Seattle, but in about 3 years Pete Carroll will say he wanted to sign him and provide some lame alibi why he didn’t…
And he will say he got 1 call
“Cleveland offered two top picks for Metcalf”
Wait does Seattle still exist?
Last I heard a bunch of hoodlums took it over
How are his feet and did he ever find a helmet? We’re seemingly back to these questions about AB!
I’m looking at the Bucs.
Arians knew him before the CTE set in and he might play for the minimum there because of Brady.
No CTE settling in derailed him, he’s been an @$$hole his whole life.
Hey, look at you, Josh. Managed to get through a comment with no mention of the man’s chest.
Any news regarding your transgender experience?
Your attempts at trash talk would neither fluster nor amuse even middle school kids.
I’d tell you to do better, but we both know you don’t have it in you.
Sorry dude, truth is you’re dull. All you spew with any accuracy is your penchant for Mr. Brown’s anatomy. Now you’re my biotch.
So, you don’t want him to mention a part of Brown’s body…but then you do it anyway? Sounds like he’s in your head and maybe you have it backward?
I didn’t realize we had so many trannies on this site.
That makes literally zero sense. But you be you. Have a good one!
Dynasty –
Your age is showing…come back when you turn 16
You are obviously a Josh (or is it Joan post-op?) burner account. You are truly pathetic.
OK, evidently I was wrong.
Turns out we did not BOTH know that you didn’t have it in you and you really thought you could do better.
I gave you too much credit on two levels.
One, I assumed you’d have even a minimal level of self awareness that you clearly do not.
Two, even when I said that you didn’t have it in you, I still expected you to do better than going back to the 5th grade lunch table for gay/tranny insults for the umpteenth time. You did not.
But, by all means, take another clueless stab at trying to save face. You can’t do much worse at this point.
This comment thread got really weird really quick.
Side note
Arians already said Absolutely not to AB in Tampa on live tv.
Prior work with AB makes it less likely to sign him, not more.
Ryan Clark said AB was a demon from day 1. Completely disrespectful, arrogant , jerk
I wonder how many sock puppet accounts you have, Joan. Five? Eight?
Just another article rehashing your previous post.
In a twitter post he posted earlier this week and said something about 4x so I’m guessing a team with three Super Bowl rings is in talks with him hoping it’s not the redskins we need all the receiver help we can get but not from a diva
I think it’s 4 teams, not 4 rings
True didn’t think about that
His attorney sounds like a politician. He thinks he has accomplished anything in life . He has, he has wasted his God given talents by being a malcontent and a locker room cancer.
Take a look at the career backgrounds of our politicians that will tell you why he sounds like that.
Brown sign with the Ravens
The deal:
1 year 5 mil guaranteed with another 8 mil available in incentives. (5mil for end of the season roster bonus, 1 mil for pro bowl, 1 mil for 1000 yards and 1 mil for 5+ TDs).
So if he doesn’t play up at all he gets 10 mil for 1 year and if he has a good season he gets an extra 3 mil on top of that. From there he would have the whole league interested in signing him and would be 18+ mil WR again but he needs to prove he won’t get distracted and be a pain first.
While that seems realistic as far as numbers go for a receiver of Brown’s pedigree who has been slightly removed from the game, it’s doubtful to me that any team would sign him for that much at this point.
If Brown hadn’t alienated his last two teams (and, truthfully, every NFL team he has ever played for) to the degree that he did, he may have a chance. Right now that, coupled with his litany of harmful legal issues, make him a long shot. I think many teams would be interested (particularly those in win-now mode with older quarterbacks), but it’s one thing to behave badly in public and quite another to screw over the team you play for. The organizations turn a blind eye to a lot but not to becoming an organizational hazard. They like control, and Brown is a hazard in that regard, which comes far before any other concerns.
If he hadn’t had the history he does with the Raiders (fights with Mayock and the weird helmet issue and frozen foot treatment), the Patriots (not completely informing them about all of the different legal issues he faced, badmouthing Kraft, and then also the possible collusion teams may suspect between Brown and the team to get to New England from Oakland), and the Steelers (all of his temper tantrums and his selfishness, ultimately misbehaving his way out of Pittsburgh), he may have just been looked at with questions about his ability and not his antics. Teams can live with legal issues, questions about play from a proven vet, or even possible league discipline. They can NOT live with mavericks that threaten their control over a situation. Especially when that maverick has ALL of those questions and hasn’t played in a year. If Brown gets back in, it’s with very little guaranteed.
Well stated! No Ravens!
AB will be lucky to get league minimum.
Hes begging any team to sign him. And they’d be dumb if they do.
Any team that signs him at this point deserves the circus nightmare that he will undoubtedly create (again). Buyer beware!
Kudos to Tomlin for handling that circus as well as he did for all those years in Pittsburgh.