Chyron Brown-Wallace joined the Franklin & Marshall football coaching staff as an assistant coach prior to the 2023 season and will enter his third season with the Diplomats in 2025. Brown-Wallace works directly with the Diplomats’ defensive line and helped Jeff Decker earn back-to-back first-team All-Centennial Conference honors, while Quincy Long additionally earned second-team honors in 2024. With a strong defensive line up front, F&M finishing fourth in all of Division III in total defense (227.1 yards per game) in 2024 and was ninth in the country in rush defense (62.3 yards per game).
Brown-Wallace joined the Diplomats' coaching staff after spending two seasons as a graduate assistant at Rutgers University where he was responsible for that same position group. Coaching in the B1G during the 2021 and 2022 seasons, Brown-Wallace was a part of a staff that helped Rutgers to the 2021 TaxSlayer Gator Bowl. That bowl game appearance was the first postseason appearance for Rutgers in seven seasons.
A collegiate standout in his own right during his time as a student-athlete at St. Lawrence University, Brown-Wallace is no stranger to the current Franklin & Marshall coaching staff as he was recruited to St. Lawrence while F&M head coach Tom Blumenauer was the recruiting coordinator. During that time, he was also teammates with F&M coaches Michael Phelan and Leondre Simmon. Brown-Wallace spent 2020 as an assistant coach at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota. Prior to his stint at Carleton, Brown-Wallace served as an assistant coach at Eastridge High School in 2019 and on staff at his alma mater, St. Lawrence, from 2017-18.
A native of Rochester, New York, Brown-Wallace enjoyed a decorated career at St. Lawrence from 2013-16, where he earned the prestigious Cliff Harris Award – given to the country’s top small college defensive player – after he totaled 22 tackles-for-loss and seven sacks as a senior in 2016. A two-time American Football Coaches Association first-team All-America selection, Brown-Wallace was the 2016 Liberty League Defensive Player of the Year and earned D3football.com All-America honors.Â
Brown-Wallace finished his career with 101 tackles, 60 tackles-for-loss, 30 sacks, six forced fumbles, five fumbles recovered and three blocked kicks in 38 collegiate appearances. He graduated from St. Lawrence with a bachelor’s degree in sociology before going on to earn his master’s degree in education.
