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Growing up playing youth football, Prophet Brown was talented. For a while, however, there was a time when he stopped playing to concentrate on another sport and his time on the field didn’t resume until eighth grade, when he started playing contact football and he hasn’t stopped since.   The Monterey Trail senior’s passion and…

Storming. Norming. Performing.   This is the mantra TJ Ewing picked up from a fellow teacher as he and his staff looked to create a new program at Monterey Trail starting at the varsity level in 2005.   Storming is setting the culture and dealing with building up a program. This included going 1-19 in…

Adding more speed at the skill positions has been among Michigan’s prime objectives over the last couple recruiting cycles, and one of the targets it is hoping will help fill that need is 2021 Elk Grove (Calif.) Monterey Trail running back Prophet Brown. How fast is the Golden State Prospect, you ask? He was ranked by…

The halfback pass became less of a trick play and more of a recurring feature in TJ Ewing’s offense last football season.   Elk Grove (Calif.) Monterey Trail’s head coach thought more creativity would better utilize Prophet Brown’s wide-ranging skill set. On three occasions, Brown received the pitch from his quarterback and threw for a…

Football fields, tracks and weight rooms are empty.   High school football programs across the state would normally spend this month and next engaged in after-school spring team conditioning drills.   Workouts are now done online amid the coronavirus concern as social distancing is crucial to helping quell the disease, to the point that school…

Elk Grove (California) Monterey Trail High School 2021 running back Prophet Brown on Friday evening announced his top six schools – and Nebraska made the cut.   So did Michigan, Oklahoma, USC, Oregon and Notre Dame. NU is recruiting him for its hybrid back/receiver role.   Last season, the 5-foot-11, 180-pound Brown – a four-star…