Less than two months after saying that he had retired, Antonio Brown announced on Friday that he plans to resume his NFL career. The four-time All-Pro wideout said that he plans to play for the Ravens, the team that formally employed his younger cousin, Marquise Brown.
“Excited to return to the NFL this year,” Brown wrote on Twitter while posting a photo of himself in a Ravens uniform.
Of course, Brown is not currently on the Ravens roster, and his tweet raises questions, mainly about whether he or the team believe this could actually be possible.
This isn’t the first time that Brown has linked himself to the Ravens. Lamar Jackson, who on Thursday inked a five-year deal with Baltimore that made him the league’s highest-paid player, lobbied for the Ravens to sign Brown after the two worked out together during the 2020 offseason. Brown ultimately signed and won a Super Bowl with the Buccaneers that season.
“He’s a cool, down-to-earth guy and he’s passionate about the sport of football,” Jackson said of Brown at the time, via The Baltimore Sun. “I feel like the locker room here is different from any other locker room. It’s like a brotherhood going on. It’s none of that outside noise; it’s strictly inside. We worry about each other; we worry about what we have going on. We want to win, and I can just tell in him that he wants to win. He wants to play ball.”
Ravens coach John Harbaugh didn’t necessarily rule out signing Brown then, but would he and the Ravens consider signing him now? Brown will be 35 before the start of the 2023 season. He hasn’t played in the NFL since he jogged off the field during a late-season game in the 2021 season as a member of the Buccaneers. Tampa promptly released him after that game, and no team has considered signing Brown since.
Brown’s ugly divorce from Tampa is likely among the reasons teams have stayed away from him. He has had countless off-field issues that recently included an arrest warrant over unpaid child support. Brown was released from New England after just one game in 2019 after the NFL began investigating him for multiple accusations of inappropriate sexual behavior, including rape. In October of 2022, Brown was ordered to pay a delivery driver $1.2 million after he was allegedly attacked by Brown.
Brown’s issues — both on and off the field — in recent years often overshadows how good of a player he was in his…
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