VIDEO: Mekhi Brown Postgame Interview

ROCK HILL, S.C. – For a second consecutive week, redshirt-freshman linebacker Mekhi Brown has been named the WePlayed Sports South Atlantic Conference Defensive Player of the Week, the league office announced Monday morning. 

Brown was all over the field in the Eagles' 27-21 loss to Tusculum Saturday. He accounted for a career-high nine tackles, to go along with a sack, a tackle for loss, a fumble recovery and an interception. 

In the last two weeks, he has forced three turnovers, blocked a field goal and registered 3.5 tackles for loss and two sacks. 

Brown generated his first turnover against Tusculum on the Pioneers second possession. With TU at the C-N 22, Brown leapt in front of a Matthew Palazzo pass at the five and returned it out to the nine to thwart the Pioneers in C-N territory. 

With TU driving in C-N territory again, Brown pounced on a loose football in the end zone coughed up by Kemani Brown to keep TU scoreless. 

Brown becomes the first C-N player to earn two defensive player of the week honors in the same season since Rondrow Peebles during his All-America campaign in 2019.  Carson-Newman hasn't had a player win back-to-back league player of the week honors in the last decade.

Brown and the rest of the Eagles will be on display Saturday at Erskine.  Kickoff with the Flying Fleet is set for 4 p.m. in Greenwood, S.C. Coverage on the Eagle Sports Network begins at 3 with the AEC Tailgate Show on Joy 620 (WRJZ-AM, Knoxville), Mountain Talk 106.3 (WPFT-FM, Sevierville) and online at cneagles.com/live.