Cameron Brown

Originally a 6th-round (183rd pick overall) draft choice by the Giants in 2020. As a rookie in 2020, Brown played in 15 games, most frequently on special teams.

TRANSACTIONS:

• Originally a 6th-round (183rd pick overall) draft choice by the Giants in 2020.

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS:

• As a rookie in 2020, Brown played in 15 games, most frequently on special teams…Inactive for the season opener vs. Pittsburgh (9/14)…Recorded 7 tackles (5 solo) and 3 quarterback hits, plus 6 tackles (3 solo) and one forced fumble on special teams…Made his NFL debut at Chicago (9/20)…Credited with first special teams assisted tackle at Philadelphia (10/22) and initial solo stop vs. Tampa Bay (11/2)…Forced a fumble by punt returner Isaiah Wright that was recovered by Madre Harper, leading to a first-quarter Giants touchdown at Washington (11/8)…Made his first 2 defensive tackles (2 solo) at Seattle (12/6)…Tallied a season-high 3 tackles – all solo – at Baltimore (12/27).

COLLEGE:

• Brown played in 51 games with 26 starts at Penn State, including starts in 12 of 13 games in each of his final 2 seasons…Concluded his career with 199 tackles (99 solo), including 15 stops for loss, 5.0 sacks, 11 passes defensed, 4 forced fumbles and 2 fumble recoveries…Also blocked a punt.
• As a senior in 2019, Brown played in all 13 games with 12 starts and had a career-high 72 tackles (28 solo), 5.5 stops for loss, 2.0 sacks, 4 passes defensed, one forced fumble and 2 recoveries…Selected All-Big Ten 3rd team by the coaches…Won the Captain's Award and Keystone Award at the team's awards banquet…Twice tallied a season-high 10 tackles: vs. Buffalo (5 solo) and vs. Michigan (2 solo)…Had 6 tackles, including a season-high 5 solo stops, vs. Indiana…Registered sacks vs. Pittsburgh and Rutgers…Forced and recovered a fumble vs. Buffalo and recovered a fumble at Ohio State.
• In 2018, played in 13 games with 12 starts…Led the team with 3 forced fumbles and finished 5th with 63 tackles, including a career-high 41 solo stops…Added career-best totals of 6.5 tackles for loss, 2.0 sacks, 6 passes defensed and 3 forced fumbles…Collected 6 tackles vs. Ohio State, 8 tackles (6 solo) at Indiana and 6 (5 solo) vs. both Iowa and Michigan, adding a forced fumble vs. the Hawkeyes…In 2017, played in 12 games and recorded 31 tackles (16 solo), 1.5 stops for loss, a half-sack and one pass defensed…Totaled a season-high 4 tackles and had one of the Nittany Lions' 14 stops for loss vs. Akron…In 2016, played in 13 games with 2 starts and was one of 5 true freshman to play for Penn State in 2016…Recorded 33 tackles (14 solo), 1.5 tackles for loss and a half-sack…Ranked 5th on the team with 6 special teams tackles…Had 1 tackle in his collegiate debut vs. Pittsburgh…Made 10 tackles (4 solo), the highest total for a Penn State true freshman linebacker since Khairi Fortt notched 11 tackles vs. Illinois in 2010…Tallied 4 tackles vs. USC in the Rose Bowl.

OFF-THE-FIELD ACTIVITY:

• Partnered with the New York City Police Foundation during the 2020 season to create positive relationships with youth in Manhattan through the Team of Teams initiative…With fellow rookies on Halloween, invited young patients from Hackensack University Medical Center to virtually meet and play games with the children through the Caribu platform…Represented Penn State's THON, which benefits childhood cancer, during the NFL's Week 13 My Cause My Cleats initiative.

PERSONAL:

• Kinesiology major…Full name is Cameron Courtney Brown...Born in Silver Spring, Md. and started his prep career at James Hubert Blake High School…Transferred to the Bullis School (a private prep school in Potomac, Md.), where he was a 3-time letterman and 3-time captain…Recorded 260 tackles in 3 seasons...Named first-team all-conference as a junior...Helped lead the Bulldogs to back-to-back Interstate Athletic Conference titles in 2014 and 2015…Posted 94 tackles and 12.0 tackles for loss as a junior in 2014…Also played receiver on offense, he caught 16 passes (from quarterback Dwayne Haskins, now an NFC East rival in Washington) for 350 yards and 6 touchdowns…Brown was on the track team and set personal bests in the discus (127'6") and triple jump (44'3")…Played in the 2016 Semper Fidelis All-American Bowl...Was selected as the Maryland MVP in the Big 33 Game...Son of Desmond Brown and Susan Giscombe...Has two brothers, D. Greyson and Brandon, and two sisters, Simone and Candice...Cousin, Andre Davis, was a wide receiver at Virginia Tech and for nine seasons in the NFL.