Brendan Flakes
DL · Freshman
6'4" · 260 lbs · Defense
Also wearing #93: Caden O'Rourke (DL), Glory Stephen-Wangboje (DL)
Background
- Hometown
- Orlando, Fla.
- High school
- West Orange High
Recruiting
- Rating
- 3-star (0.8456 247 composite)
- National rank
- #1404
- Class
- 2022
- Source
- 247 composite
2026 season
No 2026 stats recorded yet.
Season by season
2025tap to read
Started all 13 games … Recorded a career-high 18 total tackles with six solo tackles, 0.5 tackles for loss, a pass breakup and a fumble recovery … Registered his first game of the year with multiple solo tackles (two) against Penn State (10/11) … Set career-high in tackles (seven) and logged 0.5 tackles for loss and a fumble recovery against Purdue (10/18), becoming the first NU DL with 7+ tackles, 0.5+ TFL, 1+ fumble recovery since Joe Gaziano on Sept. 14, 2019 against UNLV … Added three total tackles (two solo) at Illinois (11/29).
2024tap to read
Played in eight contests, logging 11 tackles and two pass breakups … Named Academic All-Big Ten … Tied his career-high with three tackles in a win over Eastern Illinois (9/14) … Tallied two tackles against Washington (9/21) … Recorded the first pass breakup of his career at Michigan (11/23) … Had two tackles and a pass breakup vs. Illinois (11/30).
2023tap to read
Played in 12 games, totaling 15 tackles and 1.0 tackle for loss … Named Academic All-Big Ten … Set a career-high with three tackles, including a tackle for loss, against UTEP (9/9) … Tied his career-high with three tackles against Penn State (9/30) … Had a career-high tying three tackles in a win over Utah in the Las Vegas Bowl (12/23).
2022tap to read
Appeared in two games and redshirted … Made his collegiate debut against Purdue and assisted on a sack (11/19). High School: Verbally committed to Northwestern on December 4, 2021 … Central Florida Defensive Player of the Year … 8A First Team All-State Honoree in 2021 … 6A Second Team All-State, First Team All-Metro in 2020 … Helped lead West Orange to a district championship in 2021 … Received the National Congress of Future Medical Leaders Award of Excellence … Anticipated major is Psychology.
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2025 Redshirt Junior:
Started all 13 games … Recorded a career-high 18 total tackles with six solo tackles, 0.5 tackles for loss, a pass breakup and a fumble recovery … Registered his first game of the year with multiple solo tackles (two) against Penn State (10/11) … Set career-high in tackles (seven) and logged 0.5 tackles for loss and a fumble recovery against Purdue (10/18), becoming the first NU DL with 7+ tackles, 0.5+ TFL, 1+ fumble recovery since Joe Gaziano on Sept. 14, 2019 against UNLV … Added three total tackles (two solo) at Illinois (11/29).
2024 Redshirt Sophomore:
Played in eight contests, logging 11 tackles and two pass breakups … Named Academic All-Big Ten … Tied his career-high with three tackles in a win over Eastern Illinois (9/14) … Tallied two tackles against Washington (9/21) … Recorded the first pass breakup of his career at Michigan (11/23) … Had two tackles and a pass breakup vs. Illinois (11/30).
2023 Redshirt First-Year:
Played in 12 games, totaling 15 tackles and 1.0 tackle for loss … Named Academic All-Big Ten … Set a career-high with three tackles, including a tackle for loss, against UTEP (9/9) … Tied his career-high with three tackles against Penn State (9/30) … Had a career-high tying three tackles in a win over Utah in the Las Vegas Bowl (12/23).
2022 First-Year:
Appeared in two games and redshirted … Made his collegiate debut against Purdue and assisted on a sack (11/19).
High School:
Verbally committed to Northwestern on December 4, 2021 … Central Florida Defensive Player of the Year … 8A First Team All-State Honoree in 2021 … 6A Second Team All-State, First Team All-Metro in 2020 … Helped lead West Orange to a district championship in 2021 … Received the National Congress of Future Medical Leaders Award of Excellence … Anticipated major is Psychology.