2024 PFN Player Profile: Getting to know Ephrata RB/LB Brayden Brown
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Billy Splain | August 7, 2024
Brayden Brown
RB, OLB
Ephrata
Class Of 2025
Jersey #9
HT/WT 6’2 225
1344 rushing yards 14 rushings touchdowns 1700 all purpose yards 87 tackles 15 tfl 3 interceptions(all returned for touchdowns) 110 points scored
Other sports basketball lacrosse
L-L second team all star
Twitter @Bsquared999
Coach Says: “Brayden had a breakout year last year as a junior. He was a star from his running back and his linebacker positions. He is a three sport athlete and a team leader”.
LET’S GET TO KNOW BRAYDEN
Why do you play football?
I started playing football because I have wanted to play football my entire life from my dad but why I keep playing football is for the team, for the community, and the thrill of playing on friday nights in front of your whole town.
Who is your favorite sports star and WHY?
I honestly do not have one
Do you have a favorite play you remember the most? Explain:
I don’t so much have a play but more the moment when I had four touchdowns(3 rushing and pick six) against hershey in the district semifinal with 3 thousand people there.
What was last years season like for you?
I was the best thing I have ever experienced ephrata started the season from never winning a district game in history to playing in the district final there has never been a year of football for the ephrata program better than last years.
What are your goals for this coming season?
I would love to rush for 1500 yards this year and as a team return to districts and win our section
Who is the best player you ever lined up against?
Aaryn Longenecker
What game, yours, college or pro, was your favorite game you watched and why?
Rams vs Cheifs in 2018 because it was the hands down the most entertaining and exciting game I have ever watched in my life
Describe what the perfect teammate is
The perfect teammate is someone who is a leader and unselfish but makes big plays and when he does gets the team fired up to do the same next play
Name one thing that you’d love to do in football that may never happen?
I would love to be playing at a penn state whiteout game with a hundred thousand fans there singing mo bamba
Who is your mentor, the person you want to be like? WHY?
I want to be like my mother I have never seen somebody work harder than she has. She is what holds mine and my sister life together while sacrificing so many things so we can live our best life.
Preseason Two a Days are:
Brutal yet so important to the development of our team
Is there anyone in your family, besides your parents, you could consider your biggest fan? Who, Why?
Outside my parents would be my cousin because where she is definitely not my biggest fan but she a cheerleader so she has to be my biggest fan
When you aren’t playing, practicing or training for sports, what is your go to activity and why?
Probably playing video games with friends because I love to socialize with all of them while having fun playing games.
What is your favorite play to run?
It’s called mesh bail because I get to run a route.
is a hot dog a sandwich? If not, then why?
Music of choice:
Rap/Hip-Hop
What is your favorite vacation destination?
I’ve wanted to go to a really nice resort in South Africa or Maldives or Turks and Caicos
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