{"id":727250,"date":"2026-06-26T13:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T13:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/727250\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T13:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T13:20:10","slug":"gbk-breaking-news-former-2015-3-star-rivals-commit-army-olb-kenneth-brinson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/727250\/","title":{"rendered":"GBK Breaking News: Former 2015 3-Star Rivals Commit &#038; Army OLB Kenneth Brinson\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is not the first time that we caught up with former Rivals 3-star Defensive End\/OLB Army football commit Kenneth Brinson, along fellow OLB Alex Aukerman back in 2022 \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/EehZoyORKlI?si=zMIGJb7ivJ-C_Iw_\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018Counting Down to Army-Navy 2022: Interview with former Army OLBs, Kenneth Brinson &amp; Alex Aukerman\u2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Brinson was a highly recruited linebacker out of Kennesaw, GA when he turned down and offer from Stanford to play for Army West Point.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He entered as a direct report in 2015 and made an early impact, playing all 12 games with 6 starts as a plebe.<\/p>\n<p>Brinson played OLB in all 51 games during his 4 years at West Point, garnering numerous honors along the way.\u00a0 He was named a CoSIDA Academic All American in 2017 and 2018; was named to the All Independent Second Team in 2017 and First Team in 2018; and he was a finalist for the Campbell Trophy in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Brinson recorded 131 career Tackles, including 22 TFLs and 14 Sacks. He also had 2 Interceptions and 9 Passes Defended along with 4 Forced Fumbles and 3 Fumble Recoveries.<\/p>\n<p>BREAKING NEWS: Brinson is starting his residency at Stanford Hospital.\u00a0 He just graduated with his MD (orthopedic surgery and\u00a0 PhD (material science<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1350\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Army-Former-3-Star-Rivals-ARMY-Commit-Kenneth-Brinson-just-gradua-hookly.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4622031\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Like this story0Share article<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleLikeBar_meta__MY_jU\">Members only \u00b7 one like per member<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is not the first time that we caught up with former Rivals 3-star Defensive End\/OLB Army football&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":727251,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-727250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=727250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/727251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=727250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=727250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=727250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}