Walter Brady finished 2015 as a freshman All-America who tied for the team lead in sacks at Missouri—a program known for producing NFL pass rushers. Then he screwed up off the field in 2016 and got tossed. Two years later, Brady has a bachelor’s degree from Middle Tennessee, and he’s trying to use the NCAA’s graduate transfer rule to get back to the Power 5 for his final college season and prove that his freshman year wasn’t an aberration.
As a redshirt freshman in 2015, Brady started nine games at defensive end and made 40 tackles with 12.