Career Honors
• Honorable mention all-Southland Conference, 2015
• USA College Football Second team pre-season all-America, 2015
• First team pre-season all-Southland Conference, 2015
• Second team all-Southland Conference, 2014
• Southland Conference Offensive Player of the Week (Nov. 17, 2014)
Voted a 2017 team captain. … De’Andre Brown goes into the final season of his ACU career with a chance to finish in the top 10 in ACU history in rushing yards, attempts and touchdowns. … He is just 103 yards away from passing current Kansas City Chiefs running back Charcandrick West (2,058 yards) for 10th on ACU’s all-time rushing list.
Junior (2016): Battled through an injury-plagued 2016 season that saw him finish with just 259 yards and one touchdown on the ground. … He was injured against Air Force in the season-opener and was never fully healthy the rest of the season. … His best game of the season came against Stephen F. Austin (Sept. 24) when he caught eight passes for 165 yards and one touchdown and carried the ball a season-high 16 times for a season-high 56 yards.
2015 (Sophomore): Posted three 100-yard rushing games, saving his best for last when he ran for 176 yards on 25 carries in the Wildcats’ season-ending 40-36 loss at Northern Colorado. He also topped the 100-yard mark against both Stephen F. Austin (132 yards and three touchdowns on 16 carries in a Sept. 26 win) and Incarnate Word (109 yards and one touchdown on 17 carries in an Oct. 25 loss).
2014 (Redshirt Freshman): Posted a sensational redshirt freshman season in 2014, rushing for 962 yards and nine touchdowns on just 137 carries. He averaged 7.0 yards per carry, which led the Southland Conference and was second in FCS. That average was ninth in all of NCAA Division I football. His total of 962 rushing yards was the third-highest total by a freshman at the FCS level, trailing only Chase Edmonds of Fordham (1,838 yards) and Alex Lakes of Mercer (1,107 yards). That total was also the 11th-best total by a freshman in all of NCAA Division I football. Brown was fourth in the league in total rushing yards, but was second in the league in yards per game (96.2 ypg). He posted two games with three rushing touchdowns: Oct. 11 at home against Ave Maria (Fla.) on Homecoming and Nov. 15 at Stephen F. Austin. The 256 yards he rushed for in the Wildcats’ season-ending win at SFA was the top rushing effort in the Southland Conference in 2014 and is the fifth-best single-game rushing total in ACU history. Despite missing two games after suffering a knee injury in ACU’s 38-35 win at Troy, Brown still posted five 100-yard rushing games, including two big games in the Wildcats’ biggest Southland wins of the season. On Nov. 1 at Plano’s Clark Stadium, Brown led the Wildcats – playing without starting quarterback Parker McKenzie – to a 52-35 win over Central Arkansas by rushing for 171 yards on 28 carries. He also threw a 4-yard touchdown pass and caught one pass in the game. He saved his best for last, however, when he carried the ball 22 times for 256 yards and three touchdowns in ACU’s season-ending 37-35 win at Stephen F. Austin on Nov. 15. In that game he had touchdown runs of 66 yards (first quarter), 19 yards (second quarter) and 18 yards (third quarter). However, he saved one of his biggest runs of the season for the Wildcats’ final drive as they were trying to kill the clock. After SFA missed a potential go-ahead field goal with 1:19 to play, ACU took over on its own 20-yard line trying to run off the final 79 seconds of the game. On second-and-9, Brown broke around the right side for 24 yards to give ACU a new set of downs. ACU forced SFA to burn its final two timeouts before punting the ball with 11 seconds to play. ACU’s Nick Richardson sacked SFA quarterback Zach Conque on the game’s final play and the Wildcats had their biggest conference win of the season. He was voted the Southland Conference Offensive Player of the Week after the win over SFA. The first 100-yard game of Brown’s career came on Sept. 6 as he went for 109 yards on 14 carries against Northern Arizona. Almost one month later – after missing games against Incarnate Word and Houston Baptist with a leg injury – Brown went for 106 yards on 13 carries against Lamar. Two weeks later he had 109 yards and one score on 13 tough carries against McNeese State. Brown also caught 12 passes for 91 yards on the season. After the season he was voted second team all-Southland Conference, the only freshman on the second team offensive unit and one of only three freshman in the entire league to earn a spot on either the first or second teams. Was also on the Jerry Rice Award Watch List during the season. The Jerry Rice Award is given annually to the top first-year player in FCS football.
2013 (Freshman): Spent the season as a redshirt at ACU.
High school: Brown signed with Wildcats after originally committing to New Mexico State. As a senior at Lewisville, Brown ran for 1,239 yards and 11 touchdowns and had a long run of 92 yards. A two-time first team all-District 5-5A selection, Brown ran for 523 yards and nine touchdowns on 81 carries as a junior and caught 24 passes for 287 yards and two touchdowns. Finished his career with 2,107 rushing yards and 21 touchdowns on 317 carries and caught 45 passes for 471 yards and two scores.
Personal: Son of Gina and Eric Brown. His father, Eric, played at ACU in the early 1990s. 2013 graduate of Lewisville High School. Born 10 October 1994.
