Seattle Seahawks: Brandon Browner’s Fall from Grace

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Brandon Browner, Seattle Seahawks.

The story of former Seattle Seahawks Legion of Boom member Brandon Browner is a sad tale. In a little over five years, he went from wearing an NFL football uniform to prison clothes.

Brandon Browner is just another fallen athlete. Like some other fallen football players that have squandered their fortunes, the former Seattle Seahawks Legion of Boom member goes more into the Rae Carruth category of fallen athletes. Browner is just another reminder that athletes are not role models.

As a football player Brandon Browner was a special talent. His senior at Sylmar High School (near Los Angeles), the defensive back was named Most Valuable Defensive Player in 2001. He attended Oregon State, where he sat out his first season in Corvallis. After his redshirt first year, he earned PAC-10 freshman of the year and freshman All-American honors. Browner decided to turn pro before his senior year. He went undrafted.

For some, that may have been the end to their dream of playing professional football. Well, at least in the NFL, not for Browner. He spent some time camp with the Denver Broncos, only to sign with the Calgary Stampeders in the Canadian Football League. While in the CFL, Browner was a three-time All-Star.

In 2011 the Seahawks swooped in and signed him. It’s hard to find a 6-4 cornerback that can play at an elite level against the elite wide receivers. Browner was special. In his first year with Seattle, he started all 16 games, intercepted six passes, two of them for touchdowns, and made the Pro-Bowl. Talk about making an entrance in the NFL!

From there, the Legion of Boom was born, and the defense soared. We all know that the Legion of Boom with Browner, Richard Sherman, Kam Chancellor, Earl Thomas III, and Byron Maxwell reached its peak by going to back to back Super Bowls. The Seattle Seahawks won the first and made arguably the worst call in Super Bowl history in the second.

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