American football defensive end Brandon Lee Graham, who plays for the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League, was born on April 3, 1988. (NFL). The Eagles selected him with the thirteenth pick overall and the first player from the Big Ten Conference in the first round of the 2010 NFL Draft. At Michigan, he played collegiate football.
Where did Brandon Graham go to high school?
Graham was a member of the Police Athletic League Detroit Giants for seven years before joining the eighth-grade team. Graham was born and raised in Detroit and attended Crockett Vocational Tech, a school that began participating in Michigan High School Athletic Association (MHSAA) football competitions in 1996 and did not have a proper football locker room until his senior year.
Because there were no lights on the football field, parents had to shine their car lights on the field for late practices. Graham, who had been playing competitive football since the age of seven, was expected to make an immediate impact when he joined the football team’s starting lineup as a sophomore, and at the end of the season, The Detroit News named him an honorable mention lineman 2003 All-Detroit selection.
Graham played linebacker, offensive guard, placekicker, and punter for his team as a junior, and he led his team to the MHSAA state championships while being named to the 2004 First-team All-Detroit team, with one source listing him as a placekicker and the other as a linebacker.