The Philadelphia Eagles waived veteran wide receiver Hollywood Brown Thursday night, according to NFL Insider Jordan Schultz.
Per Schultz, the move was agreed upon mutually by both sides.
The Eagles signed Brown to a one-year, $5 million fully guaranteed contract in March, envisioning him as part of a revamped receiving corps tasked with replacing the production lost when A.J. Brown was traded to New England.
However, that was not the case.
Brown’s brief and strange tenure in Philadelphia resulted in him playing just four games, recording five catches for 63 yards on nine targets.
Having built a career as a deep-threat who could stretch the field, Brown’s longest catch of the season was a 19-yard grab from Tanner McKee in the loss to Dallas.
The relationship between the wideout and the team never seemed to mesh as the team decided not to utilize him most of the season, making him a healthy scratch on gamedays on a few occasions.
Despite his experience as an established deep threat, Brown was hardly included in the gameplans even with the injuries to DeVonta Smith and Dontayvion Wicks over the last few weeks.
“Of course, you want to be somewhere where you play, but at the ultimate end of the day, it’s not my plan,” Brown told NBC Sports Philadelphia earlier in the season.
“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.”
Brown spent last season with Kansas City playing in 16 games with six being starts and had 587 yards on 49 catches and five touchdowns.
Browns’ departure also continues an unusual trend involving the No. 0 jersey in Philadelphia.
He joins D’Andre Swift, (2023), Bryce Huff (2024) and Josh Uche (2025) as the other three players to wear the number without returning for a second season with the team.
With the move, the Eagles lose a depth piece in the receiving room, but perhaps it’s also a signal that Smith and Wicks are nearing a return after the team’s bye week.
