#66 - Brian Winters
Position: OL
Year: Sr./Sr.
Hometown: Hudson, Ohio
High School: Hudson
Height: 6-5
Weight: 310

Career

• Set a Kent State record for starting 50 career games every game since joining the team in 2009

• Three-time all-conference selection

 

2012 Senior Season

• One of three Mid-American Conference players selected to play in Senior Bowl and second in program history

• Named to All-MAC First Team

• Voted Offensive Team Captain by teammates and coaches

• Third player in program history to participate in NFL Combine

• Named to Phil Steele's postseason & midseason First team All-MAC squads

• Named to Rotary Lombardi Award Watch List

• Named to Phil Steele's 2012 Preseason All-MAC First Team and Athlon All-MAC First Team

 

 

2011 Junior Season

• Named to All-Mid-American Conference Second Team

• Named to Phil Steele's All-MAC Third Team and Preseason All-MAC Third Team

• Named to OhioCollegeFootball.com All-Ohio Second Team

• Started all 12 games

 

2010 Sophomore Season

• Earned All-MAC Third Team honors

• Started every game at tackle

 

2009 Freshman Season

• Started all 12 games at right tackle as a true freshman

 

Prior To Kent State

• Garnered second-team all-tournament honors as a part of the winning United States team at the inaugural IFAF Junior World Championship

• Named All-Ohio and All-Northeast Ohio Conference his senior season with the Hudson Explorers

• Also named all-conference his sophomore and junior years

• Besides lettering in football twice, also lettered three times in wrestling

• Named All-NOC in wrestling his freshman and sophomore years

• Coached by Tom Narducci

 

Personal

• Born July 10, 1991

• Son of Stefani and Bill Winters