Ravens WR Marquise “Hollywood” Brown redeems his drops with diving touchdown catch against Broncos

After dropping 3 passes successful the Ravens’ Week 3 triumph implicit the Detroit Lions and being connected the incorrect extremity of jokes connected societal media, Ravens wide receiver Marquise “Hollywood” Brown wasn’t down connected himself.

Brown knows the value of leaving the past behind, and helium did truthful successful the Ravens’ 23-7 triumph implicit the Denver Broncos connected Sunday. Brown finished the crippled with 91 receiving yards and a spectacular diving touchdown connected 4 receptions.

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“I ever got spot successful [Brown],” Ravens backmost Lamar Jackson said. “Things hap successful games. When your brothers are down, different guys are expected to measurement up. This week, helium stepped up for us. We conscionable play shot and support it going.”

With the crippled tied astatine 7 midway done the 2nd quarter, Jackson launched the shot 49 yards down the field. Brown sped past the full Denver secondary earlier laying retired successful the extremity portion to marque the touchdown drawback and springiness the Ravens a 14-7 advantage.

According to the NFL’s Next Gen Stats, Jackson’s heavy changeable traveled 60.8 yards successful the air, the longest completion of his vocation and the 2nd longest by immoderate backmost this season.

“I knew I was lined up connected [Pro Bowl information Justin Simmons] and I knew helium was a large player,” Brown said. “So I got up connected him. I was capable to flip his hips, and made a play.”

Later successful the 2nd quarter, Brown made different large play. With 3:59 near successful the fractional and the Ravens pinned astatine their 11-yard line, Jackson pump faked earlier throwing a walk down the mediate to Brown for a 32-yard reception.

“It conscionable shows you who helium is,” Ravens manager John Harbaugh said of Brown. “I expect a batch much of that successful the future.”

Brown knew his show past week was unacceptable, arsenic helium has spent galore hours moving connected those catches. “I’ve been moving excessively hard connected my route-running and separation to driblet the shot erstwhile I’m open,” Brown said earlier successful the week. “It could beryllium anything. It could beryllium not looking the shot each the mode in. It could beryllium a fig of things, but the information of the substance is, it conscionable can’t happen.”

There was nary added unit connected Brown to beryllium the doubters wrong. In fact, wherever immoderate athletes crook distant from societal media, Brown enjoys getting a bully laughter from it.

“It’s funny; successful this time and age, it’s however you look astatine it,” Brown said. “I look astatine it the aforesaid way: If I’m connected the outside, and I’ve got this dude successful a fantasy, [and] he’s retired present … I’m going to laughter with him. It’s conscionable each amusive and games. I don’t look astatine societal media excessively seriously.”

Brown was each smiles aft the crippled due to the fact that helium knew the aforesaid radical who were criticizing his mediocre show past week were apt praising him for his show Sunday afternoon.

“If you bash good, the aforesaid radical who speech negatively volition speech good, truthful wherefore would you instrumentality it excessively seriously?” Brown said.