BOULDER — Tyler Brown has the perfect analogy for his 2023 season on the sidelines. “It’s like you being trapped, just watching your brother get beat up and you can’t do anything about it,” Brown told The Denver Gazette. An all-conference player in 2022, Brown was one of the several players who came to Colorado from Jackson State with Deion Sanders ahead of the 2023 season.
Brown left not just a school he cared about, but also his hometown — Jackson, Miss. — to come all the way to Boulder for his final college football season. Jackson State running back JD Martin (8) takes a handoff from Shedeur Sanders (2) and follows the block of lineman Tyler Brown (56) during the second half of an NCAA college football game in Jackson, Miss.
, Saturday, Oct. 22, 2022. Jackson State won 22-14.
(AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis) Then it was all taken away from him. As a result of his second transfer in as many years, Brown, who originally began his career at Louisiana Lafayette, was forced to apply for an eligibility waiver from the NCAA waiver and sent in a video detailing his struggles with anxiety and depression that began in his childhood.
Like many others around the country, Brown was ruled ineligible. For the first time in as long as he could remember, he wouldn’t be playing football in the fall. “I wasn’t injured, it was just circumstance and rules and regulations,” Brown said.
“Unfortunately, I didn’t meet the requirements.” Everyone within the Buffaloes program .