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Career Accolades

  • Freshman All-America second team (The Athletic, 2020)
  • All-Pac-12 third team offensive line - Phil Steele (2021)
  • All-Pac-12 Honorable Mention offensive line - Coaches (2021)
  • All-Pac-12 Honorable Mention- RG (PFF, 2021)
  • Two-time Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll (2021, 2022)

As a Senior (2022)

  • Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll 

As a Junior (2021)

  • All-Pac-12 third team offensive line - Phil Steele 
  • All-Pac-12 Honorable Mention offensive line - Coaches
  • All-Pac-12 Honorable Mention- RG (PFF)
  • Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll
  • Made nine starts on the offensive line, seeing time at right guard and right tackle
  • Made three starts at right tackle
  • Suffered a season-ending injury at Oregon State (Nov. 13)

As a Sophomore (2020)

  • Freshman All-America second team (The Athletic)
  • Played in and started all six games at right guard
  • Started at right guard and helped protect QB Davis Mills who went 32 for 47 passing for 428 yards and three touchdowns as Stanford beat UCLA 48-47 in double overtime (Dec. 19)

As a Freshman (2019) 

  • Played in and started one game - eligible to retain year of eligibility via NCAA redshirt rules
  • Made his collegiate debut and started at right tackle against UCF

Prior to Stanford 

  • Prepped at Crandall (Texas) under head coach Joe Dale Cary
  • Four-star recruit by 247Sports, ESPN, Rivals and PrepStar
  • Nation’s 82nd-best recruit by 247Sports, 94th by PrepStar and 152nd by ESPN.
  • Nation’s second-best center by Rivals, second by PrepStar, fourth by 247Sports and fifth by ESPN
  • Texas’ 12th-best recruit by 247Sports, 13th by PrepStar, 23rd by ESPN and 26th by Rivals
  • PrepStar Dream Team
  • 2019 Under Armour All-America Game
  • 2018 The Opening Finals
  • All-USA Texas first team (2018)
  • District 9-4A offensive line MVP (2018)
  • Academic all-state (2018)
  • All-state first team (2017)
  • District 8-4A Offensive Newcomer of the Year (2016)
  • Also competed in track & field
  • State champion in the shot put (2018)
  • State bronze medalist in the discus (2018)
  • State qualifier in the discus (2017)
  • Three-time regional champion in the throws
  • Placed fourth in the discus for the 13-14 age group at the 2014 USATF National Meet

Personal

  • Son of Cathe Allen and Darrin Bragg
  • Mother played basketball and volleyball, and ran track at Abilene Christian
  • Mother appeared on Wheel of Fortune and won
  • Father ran track for national championship team at Abilene Christian
  • Has three siblings, Boston, Beau and Brooklyn
  • All siblings are named after cities, and all have BB initials
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2019
Offensive Guard/Offensive Tackle
6-4 / 286 lbs
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2021
Offensive Guard
6-4 / 315 lbs