Former NFL star Antonio Brown to accept plea deal, avoid prison - ESPN

Former NFL star Antonio Brown will accept a plea deal in his second-degree attempted murder case, resulting in probation and avoiding the possibility of a decades-long prison sentence, his attorney said Wednesday.

The deal comes two weeks after Brown's accuser — the sole alleged victim in the case — announced that he would no longer participate in Brown's prosecution.

«They made [Brown] an offer he couldn't refuse,» Brown's attorney, Mark Eiglarsh, said in a statement. «There is a profound difference between believing you can win a case and deciding that you and your family cannot afford to spend another year, or potentially several years, wearing an ankle monitor and fighting it.»

Brown will appear before a judge in one week to formally accept the deal, which will be a reduced charge of aggravated assault, Eiglarsh told ESPN on Wednesday.

«There's no prison, there's no jail, there's no house arrest. There's only straight probation,» Eiglarsh told ESPN. «And no alcohol or drug evaluation, no psychological evaluation, no letter of apology, no community service hours, no fines. Just stay away from the victim.

»No one in their right mind will continue with litigation and/or uncertain stand your ground and trial when [the prosecutors] threw that on the table."

Brown, 38, faced up to 30 years in prison if convicted, with a mandatory minimum of 20 years under Florida law, for an incident involving gunfire outside an amateur boxing match in Miami's Little Haiti neighborhood in May 2025. He pleaded not guilty in November 2025 and filed a motion to dismiss the following month based on Florida's «stand your ground» law.

Eiglarsh added that Brown's decision to accept the deal «should not be interpreted as a retreat from his