Antonio Brown’s attempted murder case is coming to a close, and according to the former NFL star’s attorney, the criminal matter’s disposition won’t include any further time behind bars for the Super Bowl champion.
Brown’s lawyer, Mark Eiglarsh, said in a statement to the California Post on Wednesday that his client has accepted a plea deal from prosecutors this week after “they made him an offer he couldn’t refuse.”
Brown, according to Eiglarsh, will plead to a lesser charge and in exchange, prosecutors will recommend probation as sentencing.
“That’s it,” Eiglarsh told The Post. “No prison, no jail, no house arrest, nothing more than a stay away from the alleged victim. That’s why it truly was an offer we couldn’t refuse.”
Brown will formally accept the plea agreement inside a Miami-Dade County, Fla. court room on Sept. 30, Eiglarsh said.
“This was not an easy decision,” Eiglarsh added. “Antonio believes in his innocence. He believes strongly in his Stand Your Ground defense, and he believes he would ultimately prevail at trial. But when prosecutors put an offer on the table that transforms a potential decades-long prison sentence into a significantly reduced charge and probation, there was simply no way he could reasonably turn it down.”
Brown was charged with one felony count of attempted murder last year after prosecutors alleged he tried to kill Zul-Qarnain Kwame Nantambu during a heated dispute outside of an Adin Ross boxing event in May 2025 in Miami.
Authorities alleged in a warrant that Brown took a gun from a nearby security guard and fired it at Nantambu. Brown claimed that he had been jumped and was acting in self-defense.
Part of the altercation was captured on video and posted on X.
Brown “is not accepting this agreement because he suddenly agrees with the State’s allegations,” Eiglarsh said. “He is accepting it because the State made him an offer he couldn’t refuse. 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.”
Eiglarsh also stated that Brown is now “ready to put this behind him, focus on his children, rebuild his professional opportunities, and move forward with his life.”
“He has fought this case for more than ten and a half months,” Eiglarsh said. “Now, he has an opportunity for something that has become increasingly important to him and his family: closure.”
