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All-time Rebel great AJ Brown made Ole Miss history in Super Bowl LIX

Ben Garrettby: Ben Garrett02/10/25SpiritBen
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All-time Ole Miss great AJ Brown is a Super Bowl champion (Photo credit: Everything Ole Miss/X)

All-time Ole Miss football great AJ Brown and the Philadelphia Eagles are Super Bowl LIX champions.

They dominated Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs, 40-22, on Sunday and in a rematch of Super Bowl LVI — a 38-35 win for the Chiefs. Brown had six catches. 96 yards and a touchdown in the losing effort two years ago. 

He found the end zone again to become the first player in Ole Miss history to score multiple touchdowns in Super Bowl games. Brown finished with three catches on five targets for 43 yards.

Wide receiver Mike Wallace is the only other Rebel to even score a single rushing or receiving touchdown in a Super Bowl. Quarterback Eli Manning was a two-time Super Bowl MVP.

“We came out and we said, ‘We can’t rewrite history, but we can make it even.’ And we damn sure did tonight,” Brown said afterwards. 

Brown left Ole Miss in 2018 as the Rebels’ career leader in receiving yards (2,984) and 100-yard receiving games (12). He signed in 2016 as a 4-star recruit and out of the back yard of Ole Miss’ bitter in-state rival, Mississippi State. 

Brown led Starkville to a 6A state championship as a senior. However, he didn’t see the postseason again until he reached the NFL. Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni wore Brown’s high school jersey during his press conference on Monday.

“I know my city is so proud of me,” Brown said. “I’m proud to be a Mississippian. Blue-collar state, you have to grind for what you want. I’m happy I’m from there. It taught me a lot.”

Brown, 27, is one of 15 Rebels to win a Super Bowl. 

He’s only the seventh to play in two or more. His 139 combined receiving yards are the most for any Rebel in Super Bowls. 

Ole Miss has now been represented in 24 of 60 Super Bowls. The others to show up in two are Allen Brown, Andrew Townsend, Willie Green, Nate Wayne, Manning and Brandon Bolden. Bolden (3) has the most of all Rebels.

Brown this year went over 1,000 receiving yards for the fifth time in six NFL seasons. He landed All-Pro honors for the third straight time. 

Brown is arguably the greatest wide receiver in Ole Miss history. He was a Biletnikoff Award semifinalist his final season. Brown finished third in career receptions (189) and fifth in receiving touchdowns (19).

He’s the only Ole Miss receiver on record with 60 or more receptions in back-to-back seasons.

“(Ole Miss) is home,” Brown exclusively told the Ole Miss Spirit while in town for the ‘Grove Bowl Games’ to launch his foundation. “This will forever be home, and I’m proud to say this is my home.”

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