On Saturday, ESPN’s Adam Schefter reported that Kansas Metropolis Chiefs extensive receiver Hollywood Brown — who had been anticipated to overlook 4-6 weeks for the sternoclavicular joint dislocation he suffered in preseason Week 1 — is “not anticipated to play within the common season.” Schefter mentioned his sources have advised him Brown was not anticipated to be again “any earlier than mid-January.”
On Friday, we realized that Brown was being positioned on the staff’s Reserve Injured (IR) record. That may enable him to endure surgical procedure not initially believed to be required — as later defined by Kansas Metropolis’s vice chairman of sports activities medication and efficiency Rick Burkholder. Since gamers on Reserve/Injured should miss a minimum of 4 video games earlier than returning, this meant the earliest Brown might have returned was for the Week 7 sport towards the San Francisco 49ers.
Different Friday reporting, nevertheless, instructed that Brown would miss “a number of months.” That meant Brown would miss a minimal of 13 weeks, making it potential for him to return with solely two or three weeks remaining within the common season — however no sooner. It might be very uncommon, nevertheless, for Brown to go straight right into a sport after lacking greater than 4 months of video games and practices; that’s not how the Chiefs would usually deal with such a scenario.
So including Schefter’s report back to what we realized on Friday means that Brown could possibly be designated to return from Reserve/Injured from mid to late December. That might open a 21-day window the place he might apply with the staff and get ramped as much as sport pace — simply in time for a very powerful a part of the season: the playoffs.
The 2024 season’s Wild Card spherical can be performed January 11-12, adopted by the Divisional Spherical January 18-19.
