When he did break out of holds, he penetrated the backfield successfully fairly often, getting into Clayton Tune’s face twice in the second quarter.

There were many plays where he pushed forward and forced his assignments to hold him up Brooks wasn’t pushed backwards fairly often. He played mostly on first and second downs, with reps at various positions, including the nose tackle, 3/5 techs and the edge.īrooks was disruptive, even when he wasn’t penetrating the backfield.

We’ll be looking specifically at their in-game performances below:īrooks picked up the start at interior defensive tackle for the National Team, showing how much trust he picked up over the week after starting the week almost exclusively at the edge. We went over their Senior Bowl practice performances earlier this week, and you can read how that went at this handy link. The National Team on a whole fared much better, scoring two offensive touchdowns and four field goals on their offensive drives, while the American Team could only muster three points on offense (their touchdown was on a pick-six by Virginia defensive back Anthony Johnson.)īoth MAC representatives had themselves a good day, putting in reps for the overpowered National Team. He finished 12-of-19 for 139 yards and a passing touchdown. It was largely a one-sided affair, as the National Team shot down the American Team by a final score of 27-10, with Fresno State quarterback Jake Haener winning the game’s MVP honors after playing most of the game for the National Team due to injuries to the other two QBs. The Senior Bowl took place on Saturday afternoon under a perfect “Chamber-of-Commerce” blue sky at Hancock-Whitney Stadium on the campus of the University of South Alabama.

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