The outstanding year helped catch the eye Mid-America Nazarene in Olathe, Kansas, the 20-year old committing to the Pioneers in this spring. If we had the nine games or 12 games we could’ve went farther, or maybe could’ve won state.” “I know that we would have made it to the playoffs and probably would’ve made it to state too. He also tacked on five more scores, and 158 receiving yards - all of it helping Monticello to an undefeated season.

371 rushing yards, 9 touchdowns on the ground, including six in one game. “He definitely continued to try to progress, continued to try to listen.”īrown’s work went on to fuel a run which culminated in a dominant senior year.

“Not to many kids to get to contribute like that as a freshman, he was never satisfied where he was,” says Monticello head coach Cully Welter.

“Coach even came up to me after and said, ‘I know what you can do.’ He was just very happy for me.” Living with the Brown’s is when Chris got his first taste of organized football - starting with JFL and working his way into the Monticello varsity team and scoring as a freshman. “We always text each other, every once in a while they’ll come up,” says Brown. Through connections his adopted parents made to other foster families, he was able to keep in touch with his biological siblings as well. He’s been part of the family since the first day and we didn’t even know it.”Ĭhris was adopted at 13 years old, and became part of their family of 12. “We asked him, ‘What do you think?’ He was home. “It was posed to us, would we want to adopt him?” says Brown’s adopted father, Blair. He spent a month in five different homes, before living with the Browns. “And my birth mom always told me to take care of them.” “I was heartbroken because I got taken away from my siblings,” says Brown.

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