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Brown Shares Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week Award Comment Count

Tim
Release sent out by UM. Northwestern QB Mike Kafka shared the honor.

PARK RIDGE, Ill. – University of Michigan senior superback Carlos Brown (Franklin, Ga./Heard County HS) shared the Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week by the conference office Sunday evening (Sept. 20) following the Wolverines’ 45-17 victory over Eastern Michigan Saturday at Michigan Stadium. It was the first conference player of the week award for Brown.

Brown was named the Big Ten Network Player of the Game against the Eagles after setting a career high with 187 rushing yards on 13 carries for an average of 14.4 yards per carry. He matched his career-best with two rushing touchdowns against EMU, a nine-yard TD run in the first quarter and a 90-yard burst through the middle of the defense in the second stanza.

Brown’s 90-yard TD run is the third longest scrimmage run in Michigan history and is tops in the Big Ten this season. His runs trails only the 92-yard scoring run by Butch Woolfolk vs. Wisconsin (1979) and the 91-yard TD run by Tony Boles vs. Indiana (1989).

Brown set the tone for Michigan’s ground game that gained 380 yards with a 30-yard burst on the game’s first offensive play. The team’s 380-yard rushing performance against the EMU was the most since U-M gained 392 yards against Houston (Sept. 6, 2003).

Brown leads the team in rushing with 238 yards on 27 carries and has scored two TDs. He has played in 23 career games and made seven starts, carrying the ball 147 times for 783 yards (5.3 avg.) with six rushing scores.

Brown will lead the conference’s top-rated rushing offense into Big Ten play this Saturday (Sept. 26) against Indiana at Michigan Stadium. The game will be broadcast nationally starting at noon on ESPN2.

Comments

Jivas

September 20th, 2009 at 10:33 PM ^

He's stuck it out here through a lot of ups and downs. Hopefully he stays healthy the rest of the year so he can keep showing the world what he's capable of.

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bronxblue

September 20th, 2009 at 11:01 PM ^

Congrats to Brown. If he can stay healthy, it would provide a nice complement to Minor and give the team another option against some of the bruisers on the schedule.

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Tapin

September 20th, 2009 at 11:20 PM ^

"Brown will lead the conference’s top-rated rushing offense..." Forget "three yards and a cloud of dust", how about 14.4 yards and a cloud of, er, FieldTurf?

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MGoPHILLY

September 20th, 2009 at 11:34 PM ^

With Minor, Brown, Shaw, and Robinson we have some serious weapons running the ball. Feels good. Hopefully Molk can get better fast and the line can continue to improve.

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Alkaline

September 21st, 2009 at 12:00 AM ^

When he signed a letter of intent, I thought he would beat out Mike Hart. Injuries, fumbles, and incumbentitis short circuited his career. Now we are seeing the skills we should have seen three years ago: speed, instinct, ball protection, and desire. Has R Rod brought this out, or did Carlos just mature on his own? Kudos to a powerful speedster. Go Blue.

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ERich79

September 21st, 2009 at 12:12 AM ^

Carlos is a hell of a running back, maybe not as tough as Minor but he is faster and has better moves to burst out into the open like Saturday. Every team should worry about Michigan's run game as they have Minor, Brown, Robinson, and Forcier not to mention some of the other great young backs that played later in the game. I just can't wait to see how they do against a really good big ten team like Penn State or Ohio State. The scary part for opposing Michigan teams is that Michigan is only going to get better as the year goes on. And if the opposing team stops the run Michigan can just throw it up to their great young receivers. But Michigan has a lot of work to do on the defensive side of the ball. Hopefully they can fix that so they can be contenders for the Big Ten.

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BILG

September 21st, 2009 at 12:33 AM ^

I hope the kid has a great year and gets plenty of carries. Both he and Minor have stuck it out through a lot and made the transition to the RR system. They are two loyal Wolverines and they deserve the ultimate credit for the turnaround this season, and should be remembered as two leaders that helped change the culture at Michigan. In Brown's case, he easily could have gone back home to the south and transferred to an SEC school when things were not working for him. Great to see him in RR's system, as he adds another homerun threat. Minor, Brown, Shaw is a ridiculously talented trio of backs. Throw in Denard and Odoms and Kelvin Grady on some reverses or direct snap motion plays, and defenses have speed coming at them from every angle, and no idea where to expect on any given play. This team is getting more and more fun to watch. Now if we could just figure out that whole defense thing....

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Alaska Hokie

September 21st, 2009 at 6:18 AM ^

Good for Carlos and Michigan! I don't recall too many player-of-the-week honors last season, so hopefully that's a sign of continuing progress. But Tim, I strongly disapprove of you posing the press release verbatim. If I wanted that, I'd go to the Michigan site. I come to MGoBlog for commentary and analysis, not what the University wants everyone to hear. I understand that sometimes you're busy and can't do a lot -- I'm a newspaper copy editor, I know how it goes -- but please at least recompile the press release's facts and add some additional commentary of your own. Reference past games: Brian's done plenty of analysis, and Brown's shown up in the UFR plenty of times. Talk about past off-the-field incidents (if any ... I don't think there are any in Brown's case, so this would apply to other players primarily). Or just throw in your two cents about what this means about Michigan's progress in general. I'd love to know how many times a Michigan Man was named player of the week last season. Thanks for doing a good job, Tim, and thanks for posting a weekend update, but please don't do the university's job for them.

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