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Sydney Brown

Safety, Atlanta Falcons · #29.

Player facts

Team: Atlanta Falcons
Position: Safety
Number: 29
Born: Mar 21, 2000 (age 26)
Birthplace: London, ON, Canada
Height: 5' 10"
Weight: 211 lbs
College: Illinois
Experience: 4 seasons
Status: Active

Stats

2026 Defense

	TOT	SOLO	AST	FF	INT	YDS	AVG	TD	LNG	PD	STF	STFYDS
Regular Season	18	11	7	1	0	0	0.0	0	0	1	1.5	2
Last 5 Games	18	11	7	1	0	0	0.0	0	0	1	1.5	0
Career	104	66	38	3	2	120	60.0	1	99	6	4.5	3

Recent games

			Tackles				Fumbles		Interceptions
Date	Opponent	Result	TOT	SOLO	AST	SACK	FF	FR	INT	YDS	AVG	TD	LNG	PD	KB
Sun, Oct 11	vs BAL	L 30-23 OT	5	3	2	0	1	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
Mon, Oct 5	@ NO	W 45-24	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	1	0
Thu, Sep 24	@ GB	W 35-14	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
Sun, Sep 20	vs CAR	L 34-3	3	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0
Sun, Sep 13	@ PIT	L 20-13	7	4	3	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0

Last 5 games. Click a game for its box score.

About

Sydney Brown (born March 21, 2000) is a Canadian professional football safety for the Atlanta Falcons of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Illinois Fighting Illini. He was selected in the third round of the 2023 NFL draft by the Philadelphia Eagles, where he was a part of the Super Bowl LIX championship team.

From Wikipedia’s article on Sydney Brown (American football), shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.¹

Background

Early life

Brown originally attended the London South Collegiate Institute in London, Ontario, Canada before transferring to Saint Stephen's Episcopal School in Bradenton, Florida in 2016, along with his twin brother, Chase Brown. Over his junior and senior seasons, he combined to have 132 tackles and three interceptions. He committed to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign to play college football.

College career

As a true freshman at Illinois in 2018, Brown started all 10 games he played in and had 55 tackles and one interceptions. In 2019, his brother, Chase joined Illinois after a year at Western Michigan. That season, he started 10 of 11 games, recording 88 tackles, three interceptions and an interception returned for a touchdown. He started all six games in the COVID-19 shortened 2020 season, finishing with 36 tackles. In 2021, Brown started all 12 games, and had 81 tackles and one sack. He returned to Illinois for his senior year in 2022.