D'Angelo Brewer

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D'Angelo Brewer
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Position Running back
Personal information
Born: (1996-01-06) January 6, 1996 (age 27)
Kankakee, Illinois
Height5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
Weight185 lb (84 kg)
Career history
College
High school Central (Tulsa, OK)

D'Angelo Brewer (born January 6, 1996) is an American football player.

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Early years

Brewer was born in 1996 in Kankakee, Illinois, the son of Samuel Cotton and Keyatta Stampley. He attended Central High School in Tulsa, Oklahoma. [1]

College career

Brewer joined the Tulsa football team in 2014. He gained 837 rushing yards as a sophomore in 2015 and 1,435 as a junior in 2016. [2] On September 24, 2016, he rushed for 252 yards against Fresno State. [1]

As a senior, he gained 262 rushing yards against Louisiana–Lafayette on September 9. [3] [4] During the 2017 regular season, Brewer ranked fifth among all Division I FBS players with 1,517 rushing yards. [5]

On November 16, 2017, in a game against South Florida, Brewer surpassed Marlon Mack to become the American Athletic Conference's all-time leading rusher, and surpassed Tarrion Adams to become Tulsa's all-time leading rusher. [6]

Statistics

TeamsGamesRushing
SeasonTeamGPGSAttYdsAvgTD
2014 Tulsa 121391283.31
2015 Tulsa 1191628375.26
2016 Tulsa 1272641,4355.47
2017 Tulsa 11112881,5175.39
Career 46287533,9175.223

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References

  1. 1 2 "D'Angelo Brewer Bio". University of Tulsa. Retrieved September 26, 2017.
  2. ↑ "D'Angelo Brewer College Stats, School, Draft, Gamelog, Splits". College Football at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 2023-11-14.
  3. ↑ "D'Angelo Brewer". ESPN.com. Retrieved September 26, 2017.
  4. ↑ Kelly Hines (September 12, 2017). "TU offense shares credit for D'Angelo Brewer's big day". Tulsa World.
  5. ↑ "FBS (I-A) Player Rushing Statistics – 2017". ESPN.com. Retrieved November 11, 2017.
  6. ↑ "D'Angelo Brewer Becomes AAC and Tulsa Record-Holder for Rushing in 27–20 Loss to No. 20 USF". University of Tulsa.


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