Brendan Flakes

2025 Redshirt Junior: Set career-high in tackles (7) and logged 0.5 tackles for loss and a fumble recovery in shutout win over Purdue (10/18). 2024 Redshirt Sophomore: Played in eight contests, logging 11 tackles and two pass breakups … Named Academic All-Big Ten … Tied his career-high with three tackles in a win over Eastern Illinois (9/14) … Tallied two tackles against Washington (9/21) … Recorded the first pass breakup of his career at Michigan (11/23) … Had two tackles and a pass breakup vs. Illinois (11/30). 2023 Redshirt First-Year: Played in 12 games, totaling 15 tackles and 1.0 tackle for loss … Named Academic All-Big Ten … Set a career-high with three tackles, including a tackle for loss, against UTEP (9/9) … Tied his career-high with three tackles against Penn State (9/30) … Had a career-high tying three tackles in a win over Utah in the Las Vegas Bowl (12/23). 2022 First-Year: Appeared in two games and redshirted … Made his collegiate debut against Purdue and assisted on a sack (11/19). High School: Verbally committed to Northwestern on December 4, 2021 … Central Florida Defensive Player of the Year … 8A First Team All-State Honoree in 2021 … 6A Second Team All-State, First Team All-Metro in 2020 … Helped lead West Orange to a district championship in 2021 … Received the National Congress of Future Medical Leaders Award of Excellence … Anticipated major is Psychology.