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Sydney Brown, SS, Illinois
Selected: Round 3, Pick 3, Overall Pick 66 by Eagles
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Name: Sydney Brown
College: Illinois
Number: 30
School Bio/Stats Link: HERE
Height: 5-10 Weight: 211
Position: Pos2: FS
Class/Draft Year: rSr/2023
40 Low: 4.40 40 Time: 4.47 40 High: 4.54
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Data Scout Notes: X-3-5/**Tester/12GP-59TT-3.5TFL-1SK-6INT-7PBU-1FF in 22/Def TL-81TT in 2021 2022: 1stC...2021: HMC...(+) Coming off Oct 2021 Thumb INJ...2020: NAC...2019: 3rdC
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Combine Invite: Yes
Height: 5096
Weight: 211
Zybek PD3X AKA "Official"
40 Yard Dash (ET): 4.47
40 Yard Dash (HH): 4.40
20 Yard (ET): 2.55
20 Yard (HH): 2.52
10 Yard (ET): 1.50
10 Yard (HH): 1.44
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225 Lb. Bench Reps: 23
Vertical Jump: 40 1/2
Broad Jump: 10'10"
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Projected 4.49/No Full Workout-Choice
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Dates: 03/10/23
Hand: 10 1/4 Arm: 31 1/2
Wingspan: 76
Height: 5096
Weight: 211
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Sydney Brown, Illinois, Player News
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2022 ALL-BIG TEN FOOTBALL FIRST TEAM (COACHES): DB Sydney Brown, Illinois,...Brown tied for the national lead in interceptions with six, the seventh-most in program history and tied for the most by an Illini since Mike Gow had seven in 1973. He was also second on the team in tackles with 59 and had 3.5 TFLs, seven pass breakups, one forced fumble, and one fumble recovery for a touchdown. Brown gives Illinois All-Big Ten first team safeties in back-to-back years after Kerby Joseph was a first-team select ion in 2021. He is the sixth Illini safety in the last 50 years to earn All-Big Ten first-team honors, joining Joseph (2021), Marlon Primous (1989), Glenn Cobb (1988), Craig Swope (1983), and Gow (1973). - Illinois Football
(DS#2 SS) rSr/2023  SS Sydney Brown, Illinois
News Source: Illinois Football
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NOV 28 BIG TEN DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK: Sydney Brown, Illinois, DB - Sr. - London, Ontario - St. Stephens Episcopal (Fla.),...Scored two defensive touchdowns (one interception and one fumble), added a second interception and had six tackles (four so los) in Illinois' 41-3 win at Northwestern on Nov. 26...First player in the nation with both a fumble return for a touchdown and an interception return for a touchdown since Kendall Adams for Kansas State in 2017...First player in the nation with two int erceptions, one interception return for a touchdown, and one fumble return for a score in the same game since SMU's Kenneth Acker accomplished the feat in 2012...Earns the second Defensive Player of the Week accolade of his career and his first of the se ason...Last Illinois Defensive Player of the Week: Isaiah Gay (Nov. 22, 2021). - Big Ten Football
(DS#2 SS) rSr/2023 SS Sydney Brown, Illinois
News Source: Big Ten Football
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NOV 27 WALTER CAMP NATIONAL FBS DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK: SYDNEY BROWN, ILLINOIS, Senior, Defensive Back, London, Ontario/St. Stephens Episcopal (Fla.),...Sydney Brown recorded 10 tackles (4 solo) and had two interceptions and one fumble recovery as Illinois defeated Northwestern, 41-3. Brown also became the first FBS player to return an interception (38 yards) and fumble recovery (53 yards) for a touchdown in a single game. With the win, Illinois improved to 8-4, 5-3 in the Big Ten. Notes: Sydney B rown is the third Illinois player to earn Walter Camp National Player of Week honors since 2004, joining former Fighting Illini running back Mikel LeShoure (Nov. 21, 2010) and linebacker Jake Hansen (Oct. 20, 2019). - The Walter Camp Football Foundation
(DS#2 SS) rSr/2023 SS Sydney Brown, Illinois
News Source: The Walter Camp Football Foundation
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Safety Sydney Brown returned a touchdown and an interception for scores and Illinois snapped a three-game losing streak with a 41-3 rout of Northwestern on Saturday. Brown raced 53 yards for a touchdown after Northwestern quarterback Cole Freeman fumbled , then sprinted in for a 39-yard score off an interception, both in the third quarter. Illinois (8-4 overall, 5-4 Big Ten) entered with a chance to win the Big Ten West and advance to the conference championship for the first time. However, Purdue defeat ed Indiana 30-16 to win the division title and will play Michigan at Indianapolis next Saturday. Brown's twin brother, running back Chase Brown, punched in a 1-yard touchdown and finished with 61 yards on 19 carries. He entered leading the nation in yard s rushing with 1,582 yards but fell short of Mikel Leshoure's single-season school record of 1,697 in 2010.Tommy DeVito threw for 136 yards on 12-for-18 passing and ran for a touchdown, and Reggie Love III scored on 2-yard touchdown run to get the Illinois offense rolling. Caleb Griffin kicked a pair of field goals as the Illini finished with eight or more wins for the first time since the 2007 Rose Bowl team finished 9-4. The Illini have a winning conference record for the first time since 2007 when they went 6-2. The Illini handed Northwestern its 11th straight loss following a season-opening win over Nebraska in Dublin, Ireland. The Wildcats, 1-8 in the Big Ten, managed only Adam Stage's field goal. The Illini bounced back after a tough 19-17 loss at Michigan last week. Jake Moody made a 35-yard field goal for the Wolverines in that one with nine seconds left, handing Illinois its third straight loss after winning six straight. Illinois led 17-0 at the half on Love's 2-yard TD punch-in, Grif fin's 23-yard field goal and De Vito's 1-yard keeper with 1:25 left. - Illinois/AP College Football
(DS#2 SS) rSr/2023 SS Sydney Brown, Illinois
News Source: Illinois/AP College Football
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The one-year anniversary of name, image and likeness taking college athletics by storm hits next week. It took nearly that entire calendar year for Illinois football players Chase Brown and Sydney Brown to take advantage of those new NIL opportunities. T he Brown twins, who hail from Windsor, Ontario in Canada, are part of the roughly 12 percent of college athletes from outside of the United States. The way NIL deals could complicate F-1 student visas meant those international athletes had their opportun ities curtailed. Heading back to Canada this month, though, opened the door for the Browns to finally take advantage.They partnered with Australian athletic leisure ware brand LSKD and with some law firms in Canada. "We had people that were intere sted in my brother and I enough to invest money and use us as ways to endorse their company," Chase Brown said. "We've been excited to work with them and partner with them and look forward to future opportunities." Sydney Brown is putting NIL on the back burner for the moment. The Illinois football team has reconvened for the summer and workouts, including, for the first time, the opportunity to work with the coaching staff, is his focus. "It was fun, but it's distracting," Sydney Brown said about explo ring NIL opportunities while at home in Canada. "I'm looking forward to stepping away from it for a little bit. As beneficial as it is, it's distracting at the same time. It takes you away. It's a whole other side of life. It's just different. There's fo otball, and then there's NIL." - News Gazette Tribune
(DS#2 SS) rSr/2023 SS Sydney Brown, Illinois
News Source: News Gazette Tribune
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2021 ALL-BIG TEN HONORABLE MENTION (COACHES): Sydney Brown,...Brown was Illinois' leading tackler with 81 for one of the most improved defensive units in the nation. He was a key part in Illinois' turnaround in allowing 13.0 fewer points per game and 101 .0 fewer yards per game since last season. Brown added two forced fumbles, three pass breakups, 1.5 TFLs, and 1.0 sacks in 2021. - Illinois Football
(DS#2 SS) rSr/2023 SS Sydney Brown, Illinois
News Source: Illinois Football
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Illinois defensive passing game coordinator and safeties coach Gill Byrd said Friday he is leaving the program because of an unspecified illness in his family. Byrd, who worked with head coach Lovie Smith for three NFL teams, coached at Illinois for two seasons. "Gill Byrd is like a brother to me," Smith said. "As good a coach as he is on the field, Gill is even a better person. I hope for nothing but the best for Gill and his family. We will miss him greatly around our program." Smith said Keynodo Huds on will coach all defensive backs next season after coaching the cornerbacks in 2019.Alfred Davis (defensive tackles coach) and Jimmy Lindsey (defensive ends) will join the program. Davis spent the past two seasons at Hutchinson Community College while Lindsey spent the last three seasons at Western Kentucky. Illinois is coming off a 6-7 season that included three straight losses, but Smith and others are optimistic after reaching a bowl game and putting together a four-game winning streak highli ghted by an upset of then-No. 6 Wisconsin. The Illini open the season Sept. 4 against Illinois State. - AP College Football
(DS#2 SS) rSr/2023 SS Sydney Brown, Illinois
News Source: AP College Football
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2019 ALL-BIG TEN THIRD TEAM (COACHES): DB Sydney Brown, Illinois,...Starting safety...Career-high 13 tackles, two interceptions, and a 76-yard interception returned for a touchdown Ranks fourth on Illinois’ career kickoff return average list (25.1 ypr) entering the Iowa game...Did not play in the first two games of the season due to injury. - Illinois Football
(DS#2 SS) rSr/2023 SS Sydney Brown, Illinois
News Source: Illinois Football
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NOV 11 BIG TEN CO-DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK: Sydney Brown, Illinois, So., DB, London, Ontario/St. Stephens Episcopal,...Had 13 tackles, including a game-high eight solo stops, and a career-high two interceptions in Illinois' victory at Michigan State. ..Recorded an interception late in the first half to set up an Illini offensive touchdown on the last play of the first half...Returned his second interception 76 yards for his first career touchdown during the Illini's 27-point fourth quarter...Claims h is first career Defensive Player of the Week honor...Last Illinois Defensive Player of the Week: Dele Harding (Nov. 4, 2019). - Big Ten Football
(DS#2 SS) rSr/2023 SS Sydney Brown, Illinois
News Source: Big Ten Football
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