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Journey Brown, DS #999 RB, Penn State 
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Name: Journey Brown (+) Medical/Heart Condition/Retired
College: Penn State Number: 4
Height: 5-11 Weight: 215
Position: RB Pos2: KR
Class/Draft Year: rSr/2022
40 Low: 4.26 40 Time: 4.37 40 High: 4.48
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Dates: 03/24/22
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Data Scout Notes: 2021: NAC...(+) Medical/Heart Condition/Retired...PMaxwell/PDoak/PHornung...2019: July-Suspended/Violation of Team Rules
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Journey Brown, Penn State, Player News
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Penn State running back Journey Brown says he has a heart condition that is forcing him to give up football. Brown posted Wednesday night on Twitter that he has hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a disease that causes heart muscle to become abnormally thick an d can make it more difficult to pump blood. Penn State coach James Franklin told reporters Brown's condition was not COVID-19 related, but it was discovered in September during "a routine COVID test." "It's heartbreaking," Franklin told reporters. Neithe r Penn State nor Brown have indicated whether he tested positive for COVID-19, but the Big Ten requires cardiac screening and testing of those athletes who do before they can return to competition. Brown was Penn State's leading rusher in 2019 and was ex pected to be one of the best backs in the country in 2020. He ended last season with a career game, running for 202 yards and two touchdowns on 16 carries in a victory over Memphis in the Cotton Bowl. - AP College Football
(DS#999 RB) rSr/2022  RB Journey Brown, Penn State
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Less than a month ago, Penn State standout running back Journey Brown was all smiles on a Zoom conference call with reporters during the Nittany Lions' virtual media days. The redshirt junior spoke about his new role as a leader for the team's running ba cks room and his goals to make even greater strides this season after finishing with 890 rushing yards and 12 touchdowns last year. But since then, a lot has changed. Penn State confirmed Monday night that Brown could potentially miss the 2020 season due to an undisclosed medical condition discovered this offseason. Still, Brown's presence - even if it won't be felt on the field - will be an important part of the Penn State locker room this fall. "His leadership on our team is significant," head coach J ames Franklin said Tuesday. "His leadership on our team is needed. His energy, he's been phenomenal...We're not losing Journey the man. Journey the man is going to be with us and will always be. We're fortunate because that's the thing that's most import ant to me - who he is and what he represents for our program." In his three years at Penn State, Brown has been known to have a goofy personality and make his teammates laugh with jokes and pranks. Junior linebacker Jesse Luketa mentioned that none of th at has changed. "If you know Journey, you know he's just such a vibrant person," Luketa said. "His energy is infectious. He hasn't lost that at all." - Centre Times
(DS#999 RB) rSr/2022 RB Journey Brown, Penn State
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Penn State says running back Journey Brown could miss the season due to a "medical condition." 247 Sports first reported Monday that the eighth-ranked Nittany Lions might be without their leading rusher from 2019. "Journey Brown is being treated for a me dical condition discovered during the offseason and will potentially miss the 2020 football season," the school said in a statement. Penn State opens its season Saturday at Indiana. The Nittany Lions already took a significant loss this offseason when Al l-America linebacker Micah Parsons opted out in August. Brown, a fourth-year junior, had a breakout season last year and emerged from a crowded backfield to become Penn State's top ballcarrier. He ran for 890 yards, 12 touchdowns and 6.8 yards per carry. In Penn State's Cotton Bowl victory against Memphis, Brown ran 202 yards, a school record for a bowl game. Earlier this month, Brown told reporters he gave some passing consideration to skipping this pandemic-delayed season and concentrating on pu rsuing a pro career. "You can't come back - you've got four years or five years and you're done. So I'm gonna ride this one out," he said. Sophomores Noah Cain (443 yards and eight touchdowns) and Devyn Ford (294 and three touchdowns) are likely to have bigger roles if Brown does not play. - AP College Football
(DS#999 RB) rSr/2022 RB Journey Brown, Penn State
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Journey Brown is in unfamiliar territory. When the redshirt junior running back first arrived at Penn State in 2017, Saquon Barkley was putting the finishing touches on one of the most exciting careers ever by a Nittany Lion running back. Then, in 2018, it was Miles Sanders who led the Penn State running backs room with an All-Big Ten season. Even last year, Brown wasn't the featured back right away in a crowded rotation. Now, Brown is the oldest member of a position group that is made up of himself, tw o sophomores and two freshmen. And after bursting onto the scene at the end of 2019 by rushing for 593 yards total in the Nittany Lions' final five games, he knows his younger teammates will look to follow his lead this fall."I'm an old head and t hese young guys kind of look up to me," Brown said last week on a Zoom call with reporters during Penn State's virtual media days. "I got them calling me, texting me, asking me questions and stuff. And for me to be able to answer those questions, I got t o know it myself and prepare for it myself." Brown - a former three-star recruit - went from a 44-yard season in 2018 to rushing for 890 yards and 12 touchdowns last season. He capped off the year with a 202-yard performance in the Cotton Bowl against Me mphis, breaking the Penn State record for most rushing yards in a bowl game. - Centre Times
(DS#999 RB) rSr/2022 RB Journey Brown, Penn State
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2020 PRESEASON MAXWELL AWARD WATCH LIST: RB Journey Brown, Penn State,...Earned the Tim Shaw Thrive Award, as a student-athlete who has overcome adversities and been an inspiration to fellow teammates, at the team's awards banquet in 2019...Appeared in 1 3 games, making 10 starts in 2019 and had at least one rushing touchdown in five straight games to end the season...Had eight rushes of 30-plus yards (3rd in Big Ten, 12th in FBS), four rushes of 40-plus (T-3rd, T-16th), two rushes of 50-plus (T-3rd, T-3 0th) and 10 rushes of 20-plus (4th, T-33rd). - Penn State Football
(DS#999 RB) rSr/2022 RB Journey Brown, Penn State
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2020 PRESEASON PAUL HORNUNG AWARD WATCH LIST: Journey Brown, Penn State,...Brown averaged 6.89 yards per carry in 2019, ranking fifth at Penn State, while his 12 rushing touchdowns finished tied for 13th...Set a Penn State bowl record with 202 yards in t he Cotton Bowl vs. Memphis (12/28/19), topping Saquon Barkley's 194 yards in the 2017 Rose Bowl...Selected to the AP All-Bowl Team, ESPN All-Bowl Team and Sports Illustrated All-Bowl Team...Named All-Big Ten honorable mention by the media. - Penn State F ootball
(DS#999 RB) rSr/2022 RB Journey Brown, Penn State
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2020 PRESEASON DOAK WALKER AWARD WATCH LIST: Journey Brown (Jr.), Penn State,...Brown averaged 6.89 yards per carry in 2019, ranking fifth at Penn State, while his 12 rushing touchdowns finished tied for 13th...Set a Penn State bowl record with 202 yards in the Cotton Bowl vs. Memphis (12/28/19), topping Saquon Barkley's 194 yards in the 2017 Rose Bowl...Selected to the AP All-Bowl Team, ESPN All-Bowl Team and Sports Illustrated All-Bowl Team. - Penn State Football
(DS#999 RB) rSr/2022 RB Journey Brown, Penn State
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Penn State football could return sooner than most expect once the program gets the go-ahead from government and health officials that its safe to do so, head coach James Franklin said Wednesday on a teleconference with media. The NCAA's Football Oversigh t Committee has suggested a six-week period of practice before teams return to games, according to Stadium's Brett McMurphy. But Franklin believes that window could be shortened. Franklin said he could see a world where his team is ready to take the fiel d for a game a month after it returns to practice."People forget, very quickly we forget, that when I played college football and a lot of people played college football, you weren't there all summer," Franklin said. "You were at home, working out on your own. You'd show up and you'd be in training camp for three weeks or a month before the season started and you went and played. I think you definitely can do it under six weeks. I think you can do it in a month. Because that's how it was always k ind of run before." If Franklin's potential timeline was followed, that would mean his Nittany Lions would have to be back on campus Aug. 5 in order to play their season opener against Kent State on Sept. 5 as scheduled. - Centre Times
(DS#999 RB) rSr/2022 RB Journey Brown, Penn State
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Few players broke out in the second half of Penn State's 2019 season like Brown did. He closed his redshirt sophomore season out as the team's best running back and looks to be the clear-cut starter heading into his redshirt junior year. Brown has a uniq ue blend of size, strength, speed and balance that will attract NFL teams, even in a world where his position has lost value. It's highly unlikely Brown becomes a surefire first-round pick because of the position he plays, but it's easy to see a world wh ere he becomes a second-round pick. - Centre Times
(DS#999 RB) rSr/2022 RB Journey Brown, Penn State
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It's easy to pencil Journey Brown as Penn State's starting running back next season. The last time he took the field for the Nittany Lions he ran for 202 yards and two touchdowns on only 16 carries in their 53-39 Cotton Bowl win over Memphis to close out 2019. While Brown may have finished last season at the top of the depth chart, run game coordinator and running backs coach Ja'Juan Seider isn't ready to count anyone out of the races for touches. "I think (Brown and Noah Cain) are going to do a great j ob going forward," Seider said Tuesday morning in a teleconference with the media. "But be cautious. Don't count out Devyn Ford. ... I think he's a kid that you're going to see another whole level of Devyn going forward. ... I view all three of those guy s as starters in my mind right now."The trio of backs rushed for 1,627 yards and should see that number increase for a myriad of reasons. Cain and Ford should see improvement now that they've each and a year in the program, while Brown didn't hit his stride late into the season. "The last four or five games, and I know I'm biased, but I thought Journey Brown was playing as good as any running back in the country," Seider said. "He's got freakish athletic ability and strength that he's finally sta rting to tap into." Brown has shown the most production of the three backs, racking up 890 rushing yards to lead the team last year. He did so despite being the only back on the roster who was rated as a three-star running back out of high school, with t he others ranking as four stars. - Centre Times
(DS#999 RB) rSr/2022 RB Journey Brown, Penn State
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Journey Brown ran for 202 yards with two long touchdowns, Garrett Taylor returned an interception 15 yards for a score after another big play by All-America linebacker Micah Parsons and No. 13 Penn State beat No. 15 Memphis 53-39 on Saturday in the highe st-scoring Cotton Bowl ever. While Penn State (11-2, No. 10 CFP) gave up its most points and yards all season against the big-play Group of Five Tigers, Parsons was pulling down quarterback Brady White, who flipped the ball right into the hands of Taylor . That put the Nittany Lions up 45-36 in the final minute of the third quarter. American Athletic Conference champion Memphis (12-2, No. 17 CFP) played its first game under coach Ryan Silverfield. The offensive line coach was promoted when Mike Norvell l eft after four seasons to become Florida State's coach earlier this month.White was 32-of-51 passing for 454 yards with two interceptions and no touchdowns. Patrick Taylor Jr. and Kenneth Gainwell both had rushing touchdowns for the Tigers, but th e rest of their points came on a Cotton Bowl-record six field goals by Riley Patterson, including a record-long 51-yarder. The Tigers finished with 542 total yards, but White was sacked a season-high six times and didn't throw a touchdown for the first t ime since the season opener. Two of those sacks were by Parsons, who finished with 14 tackles. Freshman running back Noah Cain added 92 yards and two touchdowns rushing for Penn State, which won for the 30th time in its 50 bowl appearances. The Nittany L ions had 529 total yards. Brown got his 202 rushing yards on 16 carries, including a tackle-shredding 32-yard touchdown early and a 56-yard score when he went up the middle virtually untouched. - AP College Football
(DS#999 RB) rSr/2022 RB Journey Brown, Penn State
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Journey Brown ran for 103 yards with three touchdowns and No. 12 Penn State pulled away from Rutgers 27-6 on Saturday. Will Levis played quarterback for the Nittany Lions (10-2, 7-2 Big Ten, No. 10 CFP) in place of injured started Sean Clifford and added 108 rushing yards on 17 carries and a 42-yard touchdown pass to Jahan Dotson in the fourth quarter. Isaih Pacheco led Rutgers (2-10, 0-9 Big Ten) with 102 yards rushing on 18 carries and Johnny Langan completed 12 of 24 passes for 164 yards with 58 rush ing yards. Penn State led 7-3 after a sleepy first half that featured six combined punts. The Nittany Lions took control of the game early in the third quarter.Levis ripped off a 49-yard run on Penn State's first play of the half to set up an 18-y ard touchdown run from Brown, who bounced off defenders for his second score of the day. Penn State led 13-3 after Rutgers blocked Jake Pinegar's extra point try. After Rutgers' Justin Davidovicz made a 38-yard field goal, Levis hooked up with Dotson, wh o spun around three defenders near the goal line to make it 20-6. Brown capped an 8-play drive with a 1-yard touchdown run on Penn State's next possession. Penn State wasn't nearly as efficient in the first half when Rutgers jumped out to a 3-0 lead on a 29-yard field goal from Davidovicz. Penn State responded with a six-play, 76-yard scoring drive fueled by Levis' running. He racked up 48 yards before Brown plunged in from 2 to give Penn State a 7-3 lead. - Penn State/AP College Football
(DS#999 RB) rSr/2022 RB Journey Brown, Penn State
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Pittsburgh head coach Pat Narduzzi joked before the 100th meeting between the Panthers and 13th-ranked Penn State that the next time the rivals face off, he'll either be retired or "in a coffin." That's a long time to live with some curious decision-maki ng that helped the Nittany Lions escape with a 17-10 win. Pitt opted to kick a field goal on fourth-and-goal at the Penn State 1 trailing by a touchdown with less than 4 minutes to go. Alex Kessman's 19-yard attempt clanked off the upright and the Nittan y Lion defense later turned away Pitt's last-ditch possession to win their third straight in the series since it was renewed in 2016.Journey Brown ran for 109 yards and a touchdown for Penn State (3-0) and Noah Cain's 13-yard third-quarter sprint to the end zone gave Penn State the lead for good. Sean Clifford completed 14 of 30 passes for 222 yards while spending most of the afternoon under heavy duress. Pitt's Kenny Pickett threw for a career-high 372 yards, but Penn State held firm when it mat tered. The Panthers had first-and-goal at the Penn State 1 midway through the fourth quarter. Two passes and a run went nowhere, and Narduzzi opted to kick, despite trailing by seven. - AP College Football
(DS#999 RB) rSr/2022 RB Journey Brown, Penn State
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