{"id":1775,"date":"2014-06-19T09:31:26","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T13:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billszone.com\/?p=1775"},"modified":"2014-06-19T09:31:26","modified_gmt":"2014-06-19T13:31:26","slug":"10-things-you-should-know-preston-brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billszone.com\/?p=1775","title":{"rendered":"10 Things You Should Know &#8211; Preston Brown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billszone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/10T6.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1776\" alt=\"10T6\" src=\"https:\/\/www.billszone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/10T6.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Preston Brown played high school football for the Northwest Knights in Colerain Township, OH. Brown played LB and FB.<\/li>\n<li>Brown originally committed to Cincinnati before switching to Louisville. He was considered a three-star recruit coming out of high school.<\/li>\n<li>During his senior year Preston led the Cardinals in tackles, and finished 2<sup>nd<\/sup> in sacks and forced fumbles to Marcus Smith who was selected 26<sup>th<\/sup> overall in this years draft.<\/li>\n<li>Brown was originally projected as a 5<sup>th<\/sup> round pick, it was his individual team meetings that helped him move up the draft boards.<\/li>\n<li>While Brown was the 4<sup>th<\/sup> Cardinal selected in this year\u2019s draft, he\u2019s also the first LB drafted from Louisville since 2006 and the highest selected since 1980.<\/li>\n<li>Brown faced Syracuse three times with Doug Marrone as the head coach. Preston won two out of the three meetings. Syracuse ended a nine game winning streak for Louisville who was ranked 11<sup>th<\/sup> in 2012.<\/li>\n<li>That 2012 Louisville (22) team went on to face Florida (4) in the Sugar Bowl. The Cardinals pulled off a major upset winning that game 33-23. Brown racked up 13 tackles in that game.<\/li>\n<li>Brown has had the same training partner since he was a kid. His father, Mike Brown. Mike was the captain of the 1984 Ball State Football team.<\/li>\n<li>Brown played in the 2014 East West Shrine game for Coach Jerry Glanville.\u00a0 Fellow draftee and Bills teammate Ross Cockrell was on that team as well.<\/li>\n<li>Brown recalls his favorite play during his career as a Cardinal was a 48 yard fumble recovery for a touchdown. A notable second was a 37 yard run on a fake punt.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Preston Brown played high school football for the Northwest Knights in Colerain Township, OH. Brown played LB and FB. Brown originally committed to Cincinnati before switching to Louisville. He was considered a three-star recruit coming out of high school. During his senior year Preston led the Cardinals in tackles, and finished 2nd in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billszone.com\/?p=1775\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[167,22,111,172,171],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billszone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1775"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billszone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billszone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billszone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billszone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1775"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billszone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1777,"href":"https:\/\/www.billszone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1775\/revisions\/1777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billszone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billszone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billszone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}