Kansas City Chiefs receiver Hollywood Brown injured on first play of preseason game

The good news for the Chiefs on their first offensive snap of the 2024 preseason: Quarterback Patrick Mahomes threw a frozen rope for a first down.

The bad news was much worse on Saturday night.

New receiver Marquise “Hollywood” Brown was driven to the field and landed on his shoulder on the 11-yard catch at EverBank Stadium in Jacksonville, Florida.

Brown left the field after the hit and went to the locker room, according to the television broadcast. The Chiefs said Brown was questionable to return because of a shoulder injury.

Brown did not return.

The Chiefs signed Brown to a one-year contract during the offseason after he played for two seasons for the Arizona Cardinals. He played his first three seasons with the Baltimore Ravens.

After the game, which the Jaguars won 26-13, Chiefs coach Andy Reid said Brown has “sternoclavicular joint dislocation,” per ESPN’s Adam Schefter. He added: “Brown’s availability for the start of the regular season is in question.”

Brown went to a hospital.

Former Chiefs receiver Tyreek Hill had that same injury during a 2019 game in ... Jacksonville.

After that game, current Chiefs trainer Rick Burkholder said in a statement that a sternoclavicular joint injury “is where your clavicle comes into your sternum. Those can be injured coming out the front, up top or in the back. If it goes posteriorly or back, it becomes a medical issue for us so that we worry that there’s more problems.”

Hill missed four games with the injury in 2019.

The National Library of Medicine described the injury as a “complete rupture of all the sternoclavicular and costoclavicular ligaments. This occurs from a single, well-defined trauma most commonly a motor vehicle accident or collision sport such as rugby or American football.”