At 21 years old, Ryan Brown is, somehow, already considered the grandfather of his group.
Both a senior and a citizen of Mississippi State’s football team, Brown is the unquestioned leader of the defensive line for the Bulldogs, the only senior in the starting lineup. Though that doesn’t mean he’s the oldest. In fact, only junior tackle Chris Jones is younger than Brown, and that’s only by a few days. Fellow linemen and juniors A.J. Jefferson and Nick James are actually older than Brown, they just happen to have redshirted a year, while Brown never did.