Former NFL Player Sergio Brown Missing After Mother Found Dead

Sergio Brown of the Jacksonville Jaguars helps to coach a team of local school children during the NFL Launch of the Play 60 scheme at the Black Prince Community Hub in London on July 15, 2015. Dan Mullan/Getty Images

MAYWOOD, Ill.—Authorities searched Monday for a former NFL player after his 73-year-old mother’s body was found near a creek behind her suburban Chicago home.

Relatives told officers Saturday in Maywood that they could not find Sergio Brown, 35, or Myrtle Brown, police said.