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Brandon Peoples is an elusive, powerful athlete who has been switched to wide receiver after being a mainstay in the Seahawk backfield during each of his three previous seasons on Grymes Hill ... Enters his senior season having caught 25 passes in his Seahawk career for 262 yards ...  Also has accumulated 318 career rushing yards on 94 carries.

2015: Saw action in eight games … For the season, gained 62 yards on 19 carries with his top game coming vs. Robert Morris (10/3) when he amassed season highs with nine rushes for 36 yards … Also recorded six receptions out of the backfield for 50 yards … Top receiving game came vs. Monmouth (9/19) when he had three catches for 30 yards. 

2014: While seeing action in 10 games, ranked fourth on the team with 256 rushing yards on 75 carries with three touchdowns and a long run of 19 yards … Rushed for a career-high 87 yards on 21 carries in the 26-0 Homecoming Day win over Alderson Broaddus … A week earlier, scampered for 68 yards and 12 carries at Lafayette (9/27) … Also proved to be a dangerous receiver out of the backfield, finishing with 12 receptions for 149 yards, highlighted by a career-long 46-yard TD grab at Lafayette (9/27) … Had at least one catch in eight difference games, including a career-high four receptions (for 36 yards) at Monmouth (9/13).

2013: Saw action in nine games, primarily on special teams, during his true freshman season … Caught seven passes for 63 yards out of the backfield … Had career-high three receptions at Sacred Heart (10/5) … Caught one pass for a career-long 21 yards vs. Monmouth (11/9) … Also showed excellent burst on kickoff returns … Returned seven kickoffs for 151 yards, a 20.7 average that ranked third on the team … Had a 51-yard kickoff at Sacred Heart (10/5), which was a career-long and the longest kickoff return by a Seahawk that season.

Before Wagner: Starred at Archbishop Wood HS, one of the perennial powerhouse programs in the talent-rich state of Pennsylvania … Helped lead the Vikings to a state title in his senior season of 2011 … Originally committed to Temple University out of high school before electing to spend a prep school year at Milford Academy in Berlin, NY … His cousin and former backfield mate, Desmon Peoples, is a running back at Rutgers.