Brown was selected by the Kansas City Chiefs with their first round selection in the 1966 American Football League draft and later that year Brown participated in the first AFL-NFL World Championship game with the team (later known as the Super Bowl).

Three years later, Brown was on the 1969 Chiefs' team that won the final AFL-NFL World Championship.

Due to his speed of 4.7 in the 40 yard dash, Hank Stram, coach of the Chiefs, decided to try Brown at running back.

In the 1969 AFL Championship, Brown registered 2.5 sacks in the Chiefs 17–7 victory over the Raiders.

[1] He died on November 15, 1997, in Houston, Texas, when struck from behind by a motorist after walking home one day before his 54th birthday.