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Earnest Brown IV

DE·Chicago Bears·#99·3rd year
Round 5, pick 174 in 2021
Updated November 12, 2026

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.

Taken#174
Consensus board138th
Our college model#439 EDGE

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

Recruiting sites
★★★★★
No. 215 in the nation. Composite 0.9174, the recruiting sites' average
Offers
Partial list
None on record beyond his commitment
Committed to

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

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