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Brandon Bell (American football)

Brandon Bell
No. 52 – Cincinnati Bengals
Position: Linebacker
Personal information
Date of birth: (1995-01-09) January 9, 1995 (age 22)
Place of birth: Mays Landing, New Jersey
Height: 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Weight: 229 lb (104 kg)
Career information
High school: Hamilton Township (NJ) Oakcrest
College: Penn State
Undrafted: 2017
Career history
 * Offseason and/or practice squad member only
Roster status: Practice squad
Career highlights and awards
  • 3× Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week
Career NFL statistics
Player stats at NFL.com
Player stats at NFL.com

Brandon JaMarr Bell (born January 9, 1995) is an American football linebacker for the Cincinnati Bengals of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Penn State.

Bell attended Oakcrest High School in New Jersey where he played running back and linebacker.

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During his first year at Penn State he played in seven games with twenty-three total tackles, fourteen solo tackles. In his first game as a Nittany Lion he recorded two tackles one of them a solo tackle in a 45-7 win over Eastern Michigan. His best game statistically was vs Wisconsin on November 11 he recorded six tackles four of them solo in a win during the season finale.

During the 2014 season Bell began getting a substantial increase of playing time. He starting ten games for Penn State. Bell recorded his first college interception in a game against Rutgers and the next week vs UMass he had his first sack in an 48-7 win. Bell's best game of his career and the year was a thirteen tackle effort and also a sack in a 31-24 Double Over-Time loss to the Ohio State Buckeyes. Bell finished the year with a total of 43 tackles, two sacks and one interception in ten games.

Bell set career highs with sacks and tacking during the 2015 campaign. Totaling 56 tackles and three and a half sacks Bell was on of Penn State's best defenders. In the first game of the year Bell had one sack and seven tacks vs the Temple Owls. His best game of the year was a nine tackle performance in the Big Ten opener vs Rutgers. In his last game during his junior year, in the Taxslayer Bowl against Georgia he had eleven tackles in a compact fallen short when Penn State lost 24-17 after scoring fourteen unanswered points to pull within a touchdown.


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