Eddie Brown Decommits?

2 comments so far January 24, 2008 by Steve Hanway

Rivals.com no longer lists Texas three-star defensive tackle Eddie Brown as committed to Nebraska’s 2008 recruiting class. It now appears likely that he’ll head to Texas A&M (his favorite team growing up).

Brown was smallish for a defensive tackle so unless he gained an enormous amount of weight, he’d never be able to fill the nose tackle spot. But perhaps a prospect like Zach Kerr could. Now it hasn’t been reported officially that Nebraska is looking at the three-star defensive tackle from Maryland. But seeing that he’s graduating from the same high school that new Nebraska assistant John Papuchis attended, you can connect the dots and think he might be on the Huskers’ radar.

So far Kerr is uncommitted and Scout.com reports he has offers from Maryland and Rutgers and even visited the Scarlet Knights in December. At 6’2” and 323 lbs., he would seem a candidate to fill the hard to man nose spot. Not that Brown and Kerr were an either/or proposition but if the Huskers were to replace Brown with Kerr, it might work out well that they did.

Anyhow, it hurts to lose Brown even if he was always up front about his fondness for A&M. Seeing Nebraska offer him seemed to trigger the Aggies to do the same. The Huskers can use beef on both sides of the ball and just maybe Brown’s departure will mean a meatier lineman in his place.

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