'16 GA DT Derrick Brown

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kamoshika said:
Player of the year honors are typically reserved for superstar quarterbacks or unassailable running backs, those types of players who usually post mind-bending statistics.

Not this year.

This year's National Player of the Year is a defensive tackle. Lanier senior Derrick Brown, the 247Sports five-star recruit and blue-chip defensive tackle, claims MaxPreps National Player of the Year honors after a season that was simply dominant.
MaxPreps 2015 Football All-American Team - MaxPreps

Defensive tackle Derrick Brown from Lanier High (Buford, Ga.) was named the American Family Insurance Defensive Player of the Year on Friday night in San Antonio. The sixth annual honor was presented at the U.S. Army All-American Bowl Awards Show, held each year on the night before the game.

...The selection committee said of Brown: “Brown is one of the most instinctual defensive tackles in high school football in recent years. He not only has good size and more than adequate speed, but he has a knack for reading routes, rarely bites on double moves and closes on the football quickly.”
Derrick Brown named American Family Insurance Defensive Player of the Year | USA Today High School Sports | USA Today High School Sports

Just days after being named national Defensive Player of the Year by MaxPreps and the U.S. Army All-American Bowl, the Lanier defensive lineman earned a state honor when he was named as Georgia’s All-Classification Player of the Year by the Georgia Sports Writers Association when it released its All-State team Saturday.

The 6-foot-5, 320-pound senior, who was the Daily Post’s All-County Defensive Player of the Year after posting 106 total tackles, 42 tackles for loss, 12 sacks, 26 quarterback hurries and an interception for the 11-1 Longhorns this season, was all named Class AAAAA’s Defensive Player of the Year by the GSWA.
Lanier’s Brown rakes in another honor as GSWA Player of the Year | Sports | gwinnettprepsports.com

Derrick Brown is a defensive tackle, but the title falls short of explaining the state’s No. 1 college prospect.

Brown, a senior from Lanier and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s all-classification high school football player of the year, also served his team as a wildcat quarterback, taking direct snaps and daring defenders to keep his 320 pounds of bulk out of the end zone.

Brown, 6-foot-4, employed his leaping skills to out-maneuver cornerbacks for touchdown passes in the back of the end zone with what his coach calls the best pair of hands on the team. Brown blocked punts, returned interceptions for touchdowns and cleared paths to the end zone as a goal-line fullback.

“The kid can easily dunk a basketball at 320 pounds,’’ Lanier coach Korey Mobbs said. “Most people think of a player of his stature as a hole-plugger or tackle-to-tackle guy, but he really shows his athleticism on plays to the outside, or wide receiver screens where he makes the play for no gain, or when running plays down from the backside where he lays out like a big-time athlete.’’
Derrick Brown is 2015’s player of the year | Prep Zone: High School Sports blog[/]



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VOLorNuttin said:
We NEED Brown in the worst way. We only have one DL committed at this point, and that is a JUCO DT (Alexis Johnson). It's really quite puzzling considered how this team had Bama on the ropes in Tuscaloosa, this year, all the way until their final drive. Had our Kicker (Medley) not missed 3 field goals in the game, we win that one.

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If THAT doesn't illustrate (to a recruit) just how close Tennessee is to dethroning Bama as the top dog in the SEC, I don't know what else would. Most media analysts pick us to win the SEC East next year...yet we currently have just one DL committed.

As Verne Lundquist would say....Tim Tebow :ermm:....er, uh, I mean..."WOW!"
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If Medley hits the 43 yarder and misses the 50+ we still lose. Kind of hard to blame the kicker for losing. Maybe Bama was just better.
 
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SouthKnoxVOL said:
What gets me is how some fans blame Medley for losing the UF game by missing that 55 yarder.
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I wouldn't blame him. I have said we are a few missed fgs away from being undefeated or only having 1 loss. But we are also a handful of 4th downstairs stops away.
 
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Was reading on uga's board earlier, and they said an Atlanta recruit told an analyst at one of the all-american games that Brown isn't going to uga...
 
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Dobbs 4 Heisman said:
If we land this kid, we'll have the best d-line in the country next year. We'll have 3 5* DTs, 2 5* DEs, and Derek Barnett. Yikes.

DE rotation: Derek Barnett, Kyle Phillips, Jonathan Kongbo, Darrell Taylor, Austin Smith, LaTroy Lewis, and Corey Vereen.

DT rotation: Shy Tuttle, Kahlil McKenzie, Derrick Brown, Alexis Johnson, and Kendall Vickers.


That's 12 SEC/NFL caliber defensive lineman we'll be able to rotate. Guys stay fresh all game. Defense dominates all game.

Stellar d-line depth is what's allowed Alabama to be as successful as they've been. We seem to be now approaching that level of depth as well.
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Man, I hope you're right... That would be sick
 
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