D'Angelo Brewer (born January 6, 1996) is an
American football
American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team with ...
player.
Early years
Brewer was born in 1996 in
Kankakee, Illinois
Kankakee is a city in and the county seat of Kankakee County, Illinois, United States. As of 2020, the city's population was 24,052. Kankakee is a principal city of the Kankakee-Bourbonnais-Bradley Metropolitan Statistical Area. It serves as an ...
, the son of Samuel Cotton and Keyatta Stampley. He attended
Central High School in
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Tulsa () is the second-largest city in the state of Oklahoma and 47th-most populous city in the United States. The population was 413,066 as of the 2020 census. It is the principal municipality of the Tulsa Metropolitan Area, a region with ...
.
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. On September 24, 2016, he rushed for 252 yards against Fresno State.
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As a senior, he gained 262 rushing yards against Louisiana–Lafayette on September 9. During the 2017 regular season, Brewer ranked fifth among all Division I FBS players with 1,517 rushing yards.
On November 16, 2017, in a game against South Florida, Brewer surpassed ]Marlon Mack
Marlon Devon Mack (born March 7, 1996) is an American football running back for the Denver Broncos of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at South Florida and was drafted by the Indianapolis Colts in the fourth roun ...
to become the American Athletic Conference's all-time leading rusher, and surpassed Tarrion Adams to become Tulsa's all-time leading rusher.
Statistics
References
External links
Tulsa Golden Hurricane bio
1996 births
Living people
American football running backs
Tulsa Golden Hurricane football players
Players of American football from Tulsa, Oklahoma
Sportspeople from Kankakee, Illinois
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