Former Alabama football defensive lineman Braylen Ingraham has sustained an Achilles tear that sounds like it could be career-ending based on the way Syracuse coach Fran Brown talked about it with reporters Monday.
Ingraham transferred to Syracuse ahead of the 2023 season.
“He will not be playing at Syracuse anymore,” Brown said. “He will get surgery. He’ll work with us. We’ll get him involved with us. Wants to do project management work. So we’ve already started to work on finding him a job after this season.”
Brown mentioned he hopes he can pull Ingraham into coaching.
Ingraham played for the Crimson Tide in 2019 and 2020, with two games in each season. He saw time against Ole Miss and Western Carolina in 2019 before he appeared against Mississippi State and Kentucky in 2020.
Ingraham didn’t play the next two seasons. He medically retired at Alabama before he graduated and then decided to transfer to Syracuse.
He saw an increased role once he joined the Orange. Ingraham played in every game as a redshirt junior in 2023, tallying 16 tackles, three tackles for loss, 0.5 sacks and two pass breakups.
Ingraham played for St. Thomas Aquinas in high school and a four-star prospect coming out of high school.
