Shock! Antonio Brown Lost $100 Million and Filed for Bankruptcy: ‘I Blew Everything’

Former NFL wide receiver Antonio Brown recently revealed that he blew through his entire $100 million fortune earned on and off the field.

Star former NFL receiver Antonio Brown’s off-field behavior has been the source of widespread speculation and concern in the years leading up to and following his 2021 retirement, often displaying erratic behavior on social media while embroiling in acute legal and financial concerns.

Brown appeared on the “One Night With Steiny” podcast Monday afternoon and shed further light on his financial woes over the past half-decade, revealing that he spent the entirety of his (speculated) $100 million career earnings.

“I think I made $100 million if you count off the field and everything,” Brown said to Full Send personality Mark Steiny. “… Well I just filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy. I spent all of it, I blew all of it.”

Brown did assert that he dedicated an undisclosed portion of his career earnings toward long-term financial stability for his family. “I just had my financial people in my life, they just took the money I made in the NFL and didn’t make it mine no more. They put it away for my family generation and trust and just threw it out there. So whatever I made in football I just saved it for my family.”

Brown walked away from the NFL with just over $80 million in career earnings, but as the longtime Steelers wideout indicated, he also made considerable earnings in off-field endorsements as one of the NFL’s premier players through the 2010s. The Florida native compiled six straight seasons with at least 1,250 receiving yards, a stretch that included four first-team All-Pro selections along with NFL receiving crowns in 2014 and 2017.

During this stretch, however, Brown also sustained an infamous hit from Vontaze Burfict, and the final years of his NFL career were marred with locker room discord and public displays of erratic behavior. Brown’s behavior has been commonly and irreverently linked to a diagnosis of CTE, which can only be diagnosed after death, but such behavioral concerns continued after retirement. The former player previously faced charges of domestic battery that were later dropped, and his ill-fated attempt at a return to football in the Arena Football League quickly flamed out after his Albany Empire, which Brown also co-owned, was kicked out of the league for failing to pay membership fees.