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Chase Brown climbs Illinois’ all-time list with first-half performance vs. Minnesota
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Chase Brown is having a special season with Illinois, and it just got even better. Brown passed an Illinois legend on the career rushing yards list.
Howard Griffith had just under a 50-yard lead on Brown heading into the game. Griffith was 11th on the leaderboard before what Brown did. Griffith shared his message for Brown on social media.
Chase Brown continues to climb the @IlliniFootball rushing charts. 📈
Today, he passed our friend @HowardGriffith.
We had the Illini legend give the current star RB a shoutout ⤵️. pic.twitter.com/xh0KMZdtoD
— Big Ten Network (@BigTenNetwork) October 15, 2022
Brown finished the first half with 93 yards rushing and a 48 yards receiving. Rashard Mendenhall stands in Brown’s way now that he has cleared Griffith. Griffith finished his Illinois career with 2,477 yards rushing.
Illinois went into half up 13-7 thanks to Brown. The Illinois RB has scored the only touchdown of the game so far. Tommy DeVito found Brown open in the flat, and he took it all the way for a 40-yard TD reception.
The other points that were scored by the Fighting Illini in the first half came from two field goals.
Grant Bricker covers the B1G for Saturday Tradition. His previous stops include the Williamson Homepage and Nashville Post.