Preston Brown in the NFL
In the NFL. Photo: Jeffrey Beall, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Linebacker, Louisville, 2010–⁠13

Preston Brown

Number
No. 2
Height
6′2″
Hometown
Cincinnati, OH
Born
Oct 27, 1992, in Cincinnati, Ohio

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Preston Brown played linebacker at Louisville (2010–⁠13). The Buffalo Bills took Brown in round 3, No. 73 overall in the 2014 NFL Draft.

Team titles: Big East champions, 2011 and 2012

Defense

SeasonTeamInt
2012Louisville1

Season lines from CollegeFootballData, regular season and bowls. Before 2016 our source records only interceptions for most defenders (no tackles, tackles for loss or sacks), so these lines count interceptions only. His tackles, tackles for loss and sacks from other sources are under “Defense before 2016” below.

Defense before 2016

SeasonGSoloAstTklTFLSacksIntPBUFF
2010837100.50000
20111352328451.5000
2012N1352571093014–
2013N1371279812.54.5013
On file17812330121615–

Our box scores carry tackles, tackles for loss and sacks from 2016 only, so these come from other sources, marked by season: unmarked, cfbstats.com (Open Data Commons Attribution License), its game lines summed (G: the games he has a line in); N, NCAA statistics, via octonion/football, the season’s official lines (G: games played). A dash: the source has no number for it.

On the roster

SeasonTeamNo.PosHt
2010Louisville2LB
2011Louisville2LB
2012Louisville2LB
2013Louisville2LB6′2″

As each season’s roster listed the player (CollegeFootballData). Classes before the latest listing are counted back from it; “Yr 1” is the year on file where that count can’t place a season he played (a redshirt, transfer or 2020 year); height and weight as last listed.

Game by game

2012 Louisville 1 game with an interception on file, 1 INT
DateOpponentResultInt
Oct 26vs.CincinnatiW 34–⁠311
2011 Louisville 0 games with an interception on file, 37 rushing yards
DateOpponentResultInt

Box scores from CollegeFootballData, 2004 on. ✦ postseason; ★ a career high on file. Before 2016 our source’s box scores record only interceptions for defenders (no tackles, tackles for loss or sacks), so only those games are listed. His tackles, tackles for loss and sacks from other sources are under “Defense before 2016” below.

Before the draft

Played in the 2014 East–West Shrine Game (East team, won 23–⁠13).

DrillCombine 2014
Height6′1¼″
Weight251 lb
Arm length33½″
Hand size10¼″
40-yard dash4.86 s
10-yard split1.72 sW
Vertical jump33″
Broad jump9′8″
Bench press23 reps
3-cone drill6.98 s
20-yard shuttle4.26 s

Unmarked: Combine and pro day results compiled by array-carpenter (nfl-draft-data); W: Pre-draft measurables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA). Rosters and honors: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

In the NFL

6 seasons, 81 games with a stat; latest team: Jacksonville Jaguars.

SeasonTeamGTklSacksInt
2014Buffalo Bills169701
2015Buffalo Bills1610902
2016Buffalo Bills1611710
2017Buffalo Bills1612800
2018Cincinnati Bengals74202
2019Oakland Raiders105100
NFL career8154415

Regular seasons, from nflverse (CC BY 4.0), matched to him by his draft pick and college (Player ids: DynastyProcess (GPL-3.0)). G counts games in which the player recorded a stat.

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