He played college football for the UCLA Bruins, earning second-team All-American honors in 2007.

Brown was hired by the Bengals in 2021 As a player, he was signed by the Chicago Bears as an undrafted free agent in 2009.

Then, from 2013 to 2018, he was with the Philadelphia Eagles in a variety of capacities including the Director of College Scouting from 2016 to 2018.

[1] [2][3] After his first two stops in the NFL, Brown spent the next two years building rosters (and entire organizations) from scratch in the AAF with the Birmingham Iron and XFL with the St. Louis BattleHawks as it afforded him the opportunity to "do things that you probably wouldn't get a chance to do or get experience in the NFL.

"[4] In the AAF, he had already clinched a playoff spot with the Birmingham Iron when the league folded.