Hollywood Brown is a Kansas City Chief!!!

The latest newsletter from KCSN Sports Data Scientist, Joseph Hefner.

It’s been a few days since we signed Marquise “Hollywood” Brown, and there have already been several KCSN articles and podcasts about it. They’ve talked about his speed, his skill set, how he fits in the wide receiver room with Rice, and probably a ton of other things I can’t remember right now. I highly recommend all of it.

I am going to write about Hollywood from a stats perspective. For most of the stats that I present here, I am pulling from FTN Data’s excellent advanced charting service, which tracks well over 150 different data fields, manually charting skill players on the field, where they lined up, who is covering each receiver, etc., for each play in every game. It’s a very dense dataset, and I can’t wait to really crack it open this year.

I pulled the stats from the past two seasons for Brown. His catch percentage in Arizona was not good. 211 targets for 118 catches, for a cool 56% catch rate. Big yikes!! What exactly was going on out there? Well, FTN charts whether passes are catchable or no, meaning either the pass was inaccurate, or it would have taken an incredible play by the receiver to catch it because of coverage. FTN charted only 138 of Browns 211 targets as catchable, or a 64% “catchable” rate. That means Brown was responsible for the 8% difference between his catch rate and his catchable rate.