{"id":19230,"date":"2024-09-16T13:11:37","date_gmt":"2024-09-16T17:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/?p=19230"},"modified":"2024-09-16T13:11:37","modified_gmt":"2024-09-16T17:11:37","slug":"michigan-state-football-charles-brantley-was-nations-highest-graded-cb-in-week-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/?p=19230","title":{"rendered":"Michigan State football: Charles Brantley was nation&#8217;s highest-graded CB in Week 3"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<h2>Michigan State football starter Charles Brantley led the nation as the highest-graded cornerback in Week 3.<\/h2>\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s been a wild ride for Charles Brantley with <a href=\"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/michigan-state-football-loses-another-key-play-for-year\/\">Michigan State football<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n<p>From committing to the Spartans under Mel Tucker, intercepting Cade McNamara to seal the 2021 victory over Michigan, and entering the portal twice, Brantley has stuck it out at MSU.<\/p>\r\n<p>In last Saturday&#8217;s game against Prairie View A&amp;M, the redshirt junior made a huge impact. Brantley had two solo tackles, a pass breakup, and of course the 100-yard interception return for a touchdown. Those 100 yards set a new program record for the Spartans. Charles broke the record previously held by Dan Bass who had a 99 yard pick-six against Wisconsin in 1978.<\/p>\r\n<p>The new record and the touchdown took a little while to be confirmed, however, as the officiating crew took a lengthy review to determine whether or not Brantley was down by contact before crossing the goal line.<\/p>\r\n<p>The explosive play even earned the Big Ten Network\u2019s play of the week.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">End zone \ud83d\udc49 end zone<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MSU_Football?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MSU_Football<\/a> DB Charles Brantley&#39;s 1\ufe0f\u20e30\ufe0f\u20e30\ufe0f\u20e3-yard Pick-6 is our Week 3 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/B1GFootball?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#B1GFootball<\/a> \ud835\ude4b\ud835\ude61\ud835\ude56\ud835\ude6e \ud835\ude64\ud835\ude5b \ud835\ude69\ud835\ude5d\ud835\ude5a \ud835\ude52\ud835\ude5a\ud835\ude5a\ud835\ude60.<br><br>\ud83d\udccd <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OldTrapper?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@OldTrapper<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/upeJeatE2L\">pic.twitter.com\/upeJeatE2L<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Big Ten Network (@BigTenNetwork) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BigTenNetwork\/status\/1835653724515049780?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 16, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\r\n<p>Possibly the craziest part about the whole play, though, was that Brantley had already returned a Prairie View A&amp;M intercepted pass 35 yards for a pick-six earlier in the same drive. Unfortunately at the time, but fortunately in the end, the initial pick-six was nullified by a ticky-tack roughing the passer call on Angelo Grose.<\/p>\r\n<p>All Spartan fans were aware of Brantley&#8217;s impact on the 40-0 win, but on Monday morning he received some national attention as well. Ignore the fact that PFF wrongly pictured Alante Brown, but Brantley was highest-graded cornerback in all of college football in Week 3.<\/p>\r\n<p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Highest Graded Week 3 Cornerback:<br><br>\ud83d\udd12 Charles Brantley, Michigan State: 92.1<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MSU_Football?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MSU_Football<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dwrRukuQ3m\">pic.twitter.com\/dwrRukuQ3m<\/a><\/p>&mdash; PFF College (@PFF_College) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PFF_College\/status\/1835674246963736811?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 16, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\r\n<p>It\u2019s great to see Brantley thriving once again for Michigan State football. He was a subject of some criticism over the past few years as all defensive backs were under the Mel Tucker\/Scottie Hazelton regime. Luckily, it seems as if whatever growing pains were present in those years, Chuck has left them behind and is striding forward in 2024.<\/p>\r\n<p>Look for Brantley to continue to make plays this Saturday, as the Spartans attempt to improve to 4-0 against Boston College.<\/p>\r\n<p>Go Green.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Charles Brantley turnaround has been amazing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":19242,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173],"tags":[342,191,189,504],"class_list":["post-19230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-charles-brantley","tag-michigan-state-football","tag-michigan-state-spartans","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}