Michigan State football makes top 4 for talented DE Caden Brown

Michigan State football just made the cut for a high three-star defensive end Caden Brown from Brooklyn, NY.

High three-star edge Caden Brown has just released his top four schools and Michigan State football finds itself making the cut for the talented 2024 prospect. From Brooklyn, N.Y., Brown is a top-500 player in the class as well as the No. 2 player in the state.

Brown is listed at 6-foot-4 and 220 pounds, making him a big body that would be extremely difficult for an offensive line to handle.

It’s an all-Big Ten East top four for Brown as the other schools joining MSU in his final list include Penn State, Maryland, and Rutgers. It appears to be a pretty even race to land his commitment amongst these schools, however, it does look like Rutgers has a slim lead at the moment — 247Sports lists Rutgers as “warmer” and Rivals has one prediction logged from March to land his commitment.

This would be the first high school commitment for newly hired defensive line coach Diron Reynolds, and what a good one this would be. Michigan State’s 2024 class still sits at four commitments, with none of them being on the defensive line yet. This is a position of need that requires a lot of depth in order to be successful at the college level. It is not uncommon for defensive linemen to shuffle in and out during a series, so the more quality depth you can have the better.

Brown has made one visit to East Lansing last July, and I expect MSU to make a move and get an official visit set up to try and persuade Caden to choose the Spartans over fellow Big Ten East rivals.