Preston Brady

Photo by: Carolyn Andros

Photo by: Matthew A. Smith

Photo by: Matthew A. Smith

Photo by: Tom Morris

Photo by: Matthew A. Smith

Photo by: Joe Murphy

Photo by: Matthew Smith

Photo by: Matthew Smith

Position:
LS
Ht./Wt.:
6-0 / 215
Class:
Freshman
Hometown:
Cordova, Tenn.

Honors

• 2021 Third-Team All-AAC (Phil Steele)
• 2017-18 American Athletic Conference All-Academic Team
• Tiger 3.0 Club for 2017 fall semester

2021 (Redshirt Senior)

• Allstate 30th AFCA Good Works Team nominee
• Wuerffel Trophy Preseason Watch List
• Appeared in all 12 games for the Tigers
• Served as the team's long snapper and holder
• Had one tackle at UCF
• Recovered a fumble in the team's win over No. 23/24 SMU

2020 (Redshirt Junior)

• Member of the 8-3 Tigers who won the 2020 Montgomery Bowl
• Appeared in 10 games on the season
• Served as the team’s primary holder on the year
• Had one solo tackle in the win over USF

2019 (Redshirt Sophomore)

• Named the 2019 recipient of the Peter Mortell Holder of the Year award
• Played in all 14 games, helping the Tigers to their first outright American Athletic Conference championship and their third AAC West Division title
• Converted a two-point conversion in a road win at UL Monroe in the second quarter
• Held for all-conference kicker Riley Patterson for a second consecutive season
• The tandem, with long snapper Trey Neal, set a Goodyear Cotton Bowl and NCAA bowl game record with six field goals made in the 2019 game
• For the year, Brady held for 134 Patterson points, the third-best single-season scoring total for a Memphis football player, trailing just Darrell Henderson's 150-point mark in 2018 and DeAngelo Williams' 138 points season in 2004
• The special teams unit also tied a single season Memphis record with 23 field goals made (tying Jake Elliott's 2015 and Joe Allison's 1992 marks)

2018 (Redshirt Freshman)

• Played in all 14 games as the team’s holder
• Member of the PAT/FG unit that scored 121 points on 76-of-79 PAT and 15-of-20 FG
• The 121 points scored are tied for the fourth-most for overall scoring in a season and tied for second-most for kick-scoring
• The 76 PAT made and 79 attempts are school season records
• Unit scored in double figures in eight games
• Unit hit a season-high nine PAT in season opener vs Mercer
• Unit scored a season-best 12 points twice vs Mercer and UCF • Unit started season making 31-straight PAT

2017 (Freshman)

• Redshirted
• Member of 2017 squad that went 10-3, won The American West Division title (7-1 league record) and played in The American Championship Game
• Squad earned the program’s first Liberty Bowl bid and played in the hometown’s postseason classic

Prior to Memphis/Personal

• Played football and basketball at Evangelical Christian School
• Played football for head coach Alan Durham
• Earned D2A West 1 All-District first team honors (OL) as a senior in 2016
• Selected to play in the AutoZone Liberty Bowl High School All-Star Game (OL)
• Also an All-District D2A West 1 honorable mention basketball player his junior season
• Averaged 4.4 points, 2.8 rebounds and 2.1 assists as a junior
• Son of Braxton and Carrie Brady
• Has one brother, Bennett, and a sister, Emma Sanders
• His father is the Memphis Tigers football team chaplain
• Grandfather, Dale, played football at Memphis from 1965-67 and was selected in the 1968 NFL Draft by the Cleveland Browns