{"id":102895,"date":"2023-05-17T14:49:14","date_gmt":"2023-05-17T19:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/?p=102895"},"modified":"2023-05-17T14:49:14","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T19:49:14","slug":"brown-twins-continue-football-journeys-after-overcoming-adversity-getting-selected-in-2023-nfl-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/brown-twins-continue-football-journeys-after-overcoming-adversity-getting-selected-in-2023-nfl-draft\/","title":{"rendered":"Brown twins continue football journeys after overcoming adversity, getting selected in 2023 NFL draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Connor Smith<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Medill Reports<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hours after Tod Creneti met Chase and Sydney Brown, he had dinner with the then-16-year-old twin brothers, who had just completed the 1,300-plus-mile drive from their hometown of London, Ontario in Canada to Bradenton, Florida.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Creneti and the Brown twins sat at one end of the table while their mother, Raechel Brown, sat at the other. After two seasons at London South Collegiate Institute, Chase and Sydney would soon become Creneti\u2019s players at Saint Stephen\u2019s Episcopal School as they began life in the U.S.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThey were just wide-eyed,\u201d said Creneti, Foundation Coaching founder and consultant. \u201cThey were still trying to adjust to the fact that they had made this trip, that they were leaving home.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Brown twins played two seasons under Creneti before having successful collegiate careers at Illinois. Nearly seven years later, the 23-year-old brothers had their names called in the 2023 NFL draft. After the Philadelphia Eagles took Sydney, a safety, at No. 66 overall in the third round, the Cincinnati Bengals took Chase, a running back, at No. 163 in the fifth round.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWhat sets guys apart is how much you\u2019re willing to sacrifice and how much you\u2019re willing to push yourself to be great,\u201d Creneti said. \u201cSo far, there seems to be no limit to how hard they\u2019ll work or how much they\u2019ll sacrifice.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Growing up in Canada, the brothers eyed hockey, but their family couldn\u2019t afford the sport. They eventually took a love to football; their father, Darren Isaac, played three seasons in the Canadian Football League in the early \u201990s.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As the brothers gained more football experience entering their teenage years, Raechel had a daughter and became ill with immune thrombocytopenic purpura, a disease in which white blood cells destroy platelets. Living solely with their mother, Chase and Sydney had to take care of their younger sister, Mya, before the family ended up in a homeless shelter. The brothers also spent time with their maternal grandmother, Nancy McQuillan.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cYou see this woman who\u2019s got all the life in the world, and it\u2019s being sucked away from her,\u201d<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SuNetZHS0WU\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sydney told NFL Network<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. \u201cEspecially with my sister, who doesn\u2019t have an idea in the world of what she\u2019s getting herself into.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amid the challenges, football was still an escape. Raechel helped her sons apply to Saint Stephen\u2019s Episcopal, where they got accepted for the 2016 season.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After high school, Chase played one season at Western Michigan while participating in the university\u2019s aviation program. He then transferred to Illinois, where he recorded 3,206 career rushing yards, second most in program history.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sydney served as team captain in 2022, earning first-team All-Big Ten honors and leading the conference with six interceptions. For the first time in program history dating back to the\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NFL-AFL merger, Illinois had three defensive backs drafted, including Brown, Devon Witherspoon (No. 5, Seattle Seahawks) and Jartavius Martin (No. 47, Washington Commanders).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The brothers were the ninth set of twins selected in the same NFL draft and the sixth over the past 40 years. They watched from their home in Ontario, where Illinois coach Bret Bielema and director of strength and conditioning Tank Wright joined them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cTradition and history never graduates,\u201d<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Tiud9hsw85I\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bielema told reporters<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. \u201cThese guys move on and have the chance to play in the NFL, but who they are and what they represent stays within us.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From Canada to Florida to Champaign, Creneti said the brothers\u2019 ability to overcome obstacles has been remarkable.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWhen you see people being successful, instead of assuming their lives are easy, we should assume there was adversity that had to be overcome,\u201d Creneti said. \u201cBecause in the end, that\u2019s what separates good from great.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>Connor Smith is a sports media graduate student at Medill. You can connect with him on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/connornicholas19\/\"><i>Instagram<\/i><\/a><i>\u00a0and\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/connor-smith-0719\/\"><i>LinkedIn<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Connor Smith Medill Reports Hours after Tod Creneti met Chase and Sydney Brown, he had dinner with the then-16-year-old twin brothers, who had just completed the 1,300-plus-mile drive from their hometown of London, Ontario in Canada to Bradenton, Florida. 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