Bryan Bresee

 

New Orleans Saints bulk up along shielding line, select Clemson's Bryan Bresee with the No. 29 choose in the NFL Draft

Wearing pink shirts that proudly displayed "Ella Strong" on the the front, Clemson defensive tackle Bryan Bresee and his circle of relatives shed tears and embraced each other in their Maryland domestic as NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell introduced his call.

"It's been a lifelong dream of mine to play inside the NFL," Bresee said Thursday night time on a convention call with New Orleans media. "Getting that call has been a second that I've clearly constantly appeared ahead to, and to get a call from the Saints become something you can not even consider till it happens."

The New Orleans Saints selected Bresee with the twenty ninth normal pick in the 2023 NFL Draft.

The Damascus, Md., native possesses NFL size, status at 6 ft 5, 305 pounds. He's explosive, boasting an excellent mixture of duration (32.Five-inch palms) and velocity (4.86 40-backyard sprint). Bresee showed off his power at Clemon's pro day, setting up 28 reps on the bench press.

He's also versatile — Bresee has the potential to line up at a couple of spots on the indoors of the shielding line and even outside the tackles if wished. Clemson showed a variety of special protective appears, and Bresee said the Tigers ran just about everything because they switched up schemes almost each week depending at the opponent.

"This player is an extremely good expertise," Saints Coach Dennis Allen said. "He's large, he is physical, he is athletic, he fills a role of need and I assume he is going to be an incredible addition to our group."

Bresee stated the Saints are getting a player who's going to work tough each single day and do the whole thing he needs to do to earn the honor of the players and coaches in the constructing.

The former Tiger must help fill the hollow on the protective line left via the departures of David Onyemata and Marcus Davenport in free company. Per Pro Football Focus, Bresee boasted an eighty two.Zero pass-rush grade, 24 pressures and 17 hurries in 2022. He dominated the North Carolina Tar Heels inside the ACC Conference Championship, posting a 91.2 protective grade and 5 pressures.

New Orleans met with Bresee at the integrate and visited with him at Clemson, setting him through a exercising and spending an nighttime with him and different Clemson players on the Palm Meadow Smokehouse. Allen said the defensive tackle did an amazing job with the entirety the Saints put him via, both from a bodily and intellectual perspective. He said Bresee is the kind of individual the Saints need in their constructing.

"His athleticism and length is pretty staggering," Allen stated. "His motion abilties internal, they used him lots on the flow at Clemson. His capacity to move and penetrate is something that we love."

Bresee came into Clemson with lofty expectancies as the No. 1 recruit inside the usa. He quickly showed why with the Tigers, being named Freshman All-American and ACC Defensive Rookie of the Year in 2020.

He dealt with accidents as a sophomore, struggling a torn ACL four video games into 2021 and getting shoulder surgical operation in the resulting offseason. Despite this, Bresee compiled 64 tackles, 9 sacks, 4 skip breakups, an interception, a pressured fumble and a protection in 26 video games at Clemson.

Bresee additionally dealt with non-public tragedy while at Clemson: His sister Ella died from mind most cancers at the age of 15 in September 2022.

"This guy went thru plenty, and that is challenging to must go through," Allen said. "He's proven a whole lot of fortitude in his capability to overcome adversity."

The Clemson product stated he's turn out to be a greater mature character due to the adversity he is had to conquer.

"I've long gone thru lots… lots of things that make you develop up in no time," Bresee stated. "Just loads of things that mature you pretty fast and quite a few people do not undergo them and ought to never have to go through them."

Bresee said his sister could be glowing right now watching her big brother get drafted.

"She loved looking me play, she cherished being around just the atmosphere of football," Bresee said.

Bresee watched the draft together with his mother and father, two sisters, brother in law and his grandmother from his couch in Maryland. While he stated it was emotional understanding how tons Ella could've loved the moment, he said she serves as his motivation ever in view that she started her combat.

"Watching her warfare each unmarried day and always preserve a smile on her face and just stay so tremendous via all that was incredible to look," Bresee stated. "It makes me think whatever I'm going through isn't always whilst near as tough as what she turned into combating every day."