Andy Reid: Hollywood Brown is "getting close" to a return

Chiefs wide receiver Marquise "Hollywood" Brown isn't back yet, but it sounds as if it won't be long before he makes his 2024 debut.

Andy Reid didn't give a specific date for Brown's return to practice, but the coach offered an encouraging update.

"He's getting close," Reid said Wednesday, via Pete Sweeney of arrowheadpride.com. "He's champing at the bit to get back out there, but he's got to visit with the doctor to make sure he gets clearance there."

Brown injured his sternoclavicular joint on his first play of the preseason, requiring surgery and a long rehab.

The Chiefs have targeted Week 16 or Week 17 for Brown's return.

Brown will join DeAndre Hopkins, Xavier Worthy and JuJu Smith-Schuster in the wide receivers room to give Patrick Mahomes plenty of weapons in the postseason.