Earnest Brown IV
Earnest Brown IV is a DE for the Chicago Bears (updated November 12, 2026).
Comps
The players whose size, testing and production looked most like his at the same point in their careers. The percent is how close.
Plays like: Ray Edwards, Josh Boyd, Charles Harris. Built like: Zach Allen, Jared Crick, Mike Montgomery.
Earnest Brown IV Injury StatusNot listed
Earnest Brown IV is not on the injury report as of Nov 11. Source: the official NFL injury report, refreshed daily.
Draft & College
Round 5, pick 174 to the Los Angeles Rams in 2021, out of Northwestern (Big Ten). He went about where consensus had him.
In college, 2018-2020, 35 games: 7.0 sacks, 18 TFL, 14 pressures, 70 tackles.
What this pick usually becomes. Of the 500 players taken as a fifth or sixth-rounder between 2012 and 2021, 26% earned a second contract and 16% became starters. The median one started 2 career games.
Recruited
Class of 2017 · Defensive end · High school: Denton Ryan, Denton, TX
Partial offer list. Offer lists for the 2017 class are partial everywhere we can read them: we hold 3 or more offers for 62 of 4,706 recruits, and we grade only those boards.
College: Northwestern 2017-20
Chicago Bears