Tampa Bay Buccaneers coach Bruce Arians has confirmed NFL star Antonio Brown has been cut from the team after a bizarre exit from the Monday morning game against the New York Jets.
Brown — one of the greatest wide receivers to play the game — stripped out of his Buccaneers jersey mid-match and hurled it into the crowd, as teammates Mike Evans and OJ Howard tried to calm him down.
Then Brown walked off the field and into the tunnel without a shirt on, and was not seen for the rest of the game.
"He is no longer a Buc. That is the story," Arians said after the match "I’m no longer talking about him."
Brown had needed just eight more catches and 55 more receiving yards — a highly achievable mark — to unlock season bonuses that would have seen him pocket more than $1 million.
He made three catches and 26 yards before his exit.
Brown was playing his second game back from a three-game suspension after violating COVID-19 protocols, having been accused of using a fake vaccine card.
"It's a lot of drama you guys create, a lot of drama people create who want stuff from me," Brown told media.
"That’s a part of life, a part of being in the position. I can't control what people want from me, what people write about me."
