Week 1 of the 2025 NFL season is finally here and opening weekend will continue on Friday with the Los Angeles Chargers meeting the Kansas City Chiefs in Brazil at 8 p.m. ET on YouTube.
Hollywood Brown start or sit: Week 1 fantasy football advice
We break down the fantasy football outlook of Hollywood Brown ahead of the Chiefs’ Week 1 opener against the Chargers.
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The Chiefs have had an entire offseason to stew on their blowout loss to the Eagles in Super Bowl LIX this past February and will begin a long march towards reclaiming their throne atop the NFL. There are some questions about the firepower Patrick Mahomes will have at his disposal this year and that includes veteran wide receiver Hollywood Brown. According to FantasyPros, he enters the season as with an ADP (average draft position) of 58 in PPR formats and 66 in standard formats.
Below, we’ll go over Browns’ outlook in fantasy football for Week 1.
Fantasy Football analysis: Chiefs WR Hollywood Brown
Brown signed with the Chiefs last offseason, but his 2024 campaign was effectively derailed before even leaving the station. He was hospitalized after suffering a sternoclavicular joint dislocation on literally the first play of the preseason and that kept him out of action until their Week 16 matchup against the Texans on December 21. The wideout ended up catching nine targets for 91 yards through his only two regular season games and made modest contributions to the team’s playoff run.
Both Brown and Chiefs decided to run it back with him signing a one-year deal this offseason and he is by all accounts healthy and ready to go heading into 2025. How big of an impact he’ll make remains to be seen.
Start or sit in Week 1 standard/PPR leagues?
Sit. Judging by his ADP, Brown is unsurprisingly in bench or even undrafted territory for most fantasy managers and will have a lot to prove to make his way into starting lineups. He had a decent two-year run with the Cardinals prior to his arrival in Kansas City but wasn’t necessarily an explosive player in fantasy, falling below the top 40 in PPR leagues for both seasons.
There is potential for the 28-year-old Brown to become a top weapon for Mahomes this season, especially with Rashee Rice’s six-game suspension creating a huge hole in the receiver room. Still, I’d take a wait-and-see approach when it comes to his fantasy prospects for the year and keep him on the bench for the opener.
