Cam Brown

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

TRANSACTIONS:

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

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS:

• 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.

2019:

• As a senior, 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, 1 forced fumble and 2 recoveries…Selected All-Big Ten 3rd team by the coaches and honorable mention by the media…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.

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…Had a team-high 7 tackles, including a career-high 2 tackles for loss vs. Kent State…Made 3 tackles, forced 1 fumble and broke up a1pass at Illinois…Collected 6 tackles vs. Ohio State…Contributed 8 tackles (6 solo) at Indiana and 6 tackles (5 solo) vs. both Iowa and Michigan, adding a forced fumble vs. the Hawkeyes…Tallied 5 tackles (4 solo), including 1.5 tackles and 1.0 sack, vs. Maryland.

2017:

• As a sophomore, played in 12 games and recorded 31 tackles (16 solo), 1.5 stops for loss, a half-sack and 1 pass defensed…Totaled a season-high 4 tackles and had 1 of the Nittany Lions' 14 stops for loss vs. Akron…Also had 4 tackles vs. Maryland and Indiana…Credited with 3 tackles vs. Michigan and Michigan State and 2 stops vs. Pittsburgh, Iowa, Ohio State, Rutgers Nebraska and Washington in the Fiesta Bowl.

2016:

• Played in 13 games with 2 starts and was 1 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...Penn State's previous true freshman with double-digit tackles was Marcus Allen (10 vs. Ohio State in 2014)...Made his first career start vs. Minnesota…Blocked a punt vs. Ohio State…Tallied 3 tackles vs. Purdue, Iowa and Rutgers and 4 vs. USC in the Rose Bowl.

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.