On Saturday, ESPN’s Adam Schefter reported that Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Hollywood Brown — who had been expected to miss 4-6 weeks for the sternoclavicular joint dislocation he suffered in preseason Week 1 — is “not expected to play in the regular season.” Schefter said his sources have told him Brown was not expected to be back “any sooner than mid-January.”
On Friday, we learned that Brown was being placed on the team’s Reserve Injured (IR) list. That will allow him to undergo surgery not originally believed to be required — as later explained by Kansas City’s vice president of sports medicine and performance Rick Burkholder.