Two years after he was final seen within the NFL, former All-Professional huge receiver Antonio Brown is teasing a debut for the world soccer group he not too long ago bought. However that is not all. The longtime Steelers star can be fielding “real” curiosity from NFL groups a couple of potential return to the league in 2023, his agent JR Rickert tells CBS Sports activities.

Brown, 34, hasn’t taken the sphere since storming out of the Buccaneers’ Week 17 recreation in 2021, when he infamously went shirtless after a dispute with Tampa Bay coaches. However the seven-time Professional Bowler not too long ago reported to apply for the Albany Empire, the upstart Nationwide Enviornment League group of which he’s a majority proprietor, and plans to “go well with up” at Saturday’s house recreation.

It is an opportunity for Brown to jump-start an enviornment franchise he is working alongside his father, former indoor standout Eddie Brown, whereas he considers his personal NFL comeback, in keeping with Rickert.

“He’s exploring the proper match,” his agent mentioned Thursday, describing current NFL inquiries as “real.”

This comes a month after Brown abruptly teased an NFL comeback, even posting an image of himself in a Ravens uniform. He’d mentioned as not too long ago as March, when he grew to become co-owner of the Empire, that he was retired from enjoying.

Rickert expressed confidence Brown can be on an NFL roster in some unspecified time in the future in 2023. However is the wideout critical a couple of return?

“I feel that he’s a multi-talented particular person who does every part at a excessive stage,” Rickert mentioned, “and no matter he commits to, he goes all in.”

Brown, who’s providing navy and first responders free admission to his obvious Empire debut on Saturday, has remained a controversial off-field determine. Since 2019, in between colourful departures from the Steelers, Raiders and Patriots organizations, the previous All-Professional has confronted quite a few lawsuits, together with these alleging sexual misconduct and felony battery.

Requested if he is involved Brown may face future NFL self-discipline within the occasion of a return to the league, Rickert mentioned solely that he is “had a tremendously constructive expertise working with AB, and would hope that I (can) proceed to be a robust advocate and advisor.”