Following each season, the BSD staff votes on the 10 best players. A #1 vote is worth 10 points, a #2 vote is nine points, and so on. Today we continue our Top 10 series with the second vote-getter tied at #2: safety Ji’Ayir Brown.
Penn State has seemingly always had at least a serviceable safety roaming the deep secondary, but after Marcus Allen left, there were a couple years where things looked a bit shaky. Then came Jaquan Brisker, a Lackawanna CC product who breathed new life into the safety position, helping the Penn State secondary turn a corner into a ferocious back half that made opposing offenses think twice about chucking it deep.