An undrafted free agent prior to 2012, Brown was signed and subsequently released by the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League (NFL) during the offseason, as was documented in the 2012 season of documentary television series Hard Knocks.
[2] Brown attended Judge Memorial and Highland high schools in Salt Lake City, Utah, where he played basketball, football, and baseball.
Brown was recruited and had scholarship opportunities in all three sports, including invites at BYU, Oregon, and Washington State to play football.
In 2009, Brown accepted a Finance Internship in the Salt Lake City office of Huntsman Gay Global Capital, a private equity firm.
He later returned to the firm's West Palm Beach office, but after seven months, he chose to go back to Utah to complete his finance degree.