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JUAN LAINEZ/MARINMEDIA.ORG/CAL SPORT MEDIA/SHUTTERSTOCK (BROWN); JOE ROBBINS/GETTY IMAGES (BOSA); MATTHEW HOLST/GETTY IMAGES (HOCKENSON); GREG NELSON (MURRAY); DAVID ROSENBLUM/ICON SPORTSWIRE/GETTY IMAGES (BAKER); LON
for a Power 5 school.
Iacenda directed him to

the nearby Six Flags.
Brown, who walked to
work, started out at
HORWEDEL/ICON SPORTSWIRE/GETTY IMAGES (BUSH); MARK HUMPHREY/AP/SHUTTERSTOCK (MANNING); BETTMANN ARCHIVE/GETTY IMAGES (JIM BROWN); JOHN BIEVER (WATT); MANNY MILLAN (RICE); JOHN IACONO (MARINO)
Bugs Bunny World before
moving on to bigger rides.
His performance on the
football field earned him a
ticket to Oklahoma, where
his 1,095 receiving yards
in 2017 were 10th-best in

team history. In 2018, he
was a first-team
All-America.
Brown’s calling card is
his speed. “I don’t worry
about size or getting hit,”
he said. “You can’t hit
what you can’t catch.”
Though he has long been
known as “Jet” back home
in Florida, he picked up a
new nickname after his
time in California:
Hollywood. With his big
personality and his
big-play potential, the new
moniker should serve
him well in the NFL.

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