More horrible, horrible news for Fighting Illini football. Via his Twitter account, redshirt-freshman running back Dre Brown has suffered another torn ACL and will miss the 2016 season. Brown was the victim of a similar injury last Spring (almost a year ago today, actually), but there's no word if the tear occurred in the same knee or not.
Breaks my heart to announce this. Don't know why it happened to me... Going to try and keep my head up. Pray for me. pic.twitter.com/4777m4DydB
— Dre Brown (@DreBrown27) April 20, 2016
Brown, a former three-star recruit, was expected to be competing for playing time behind sophomore Ke'Shawn Vaughn this season.