Eastern Washington University Athletics

2019: He started in three of the nine games he played, with the first start of his career coming at Washington (8/31/19). He closed the year with 14 tackles and four passes broken up. Branch had a career-high seven tackles against North Dakota (9/28/19) in his third career start. He also had three tackles one game earlier versus Idaho (9/21/19) when he also started at corner. In EWU’s three scrimmages in the spring, including the Red-White Game, Branch had four passes broken and five tackles.
 
2018: Played in seven games as a backup cornerback, finishing with seven tackles. Three of them came versus Idaho (10/27/18).
 
2017: Redshirted.
 
HS: Graduated from Mount Tahoma HS in 2017. His head coach in high school was Ricky Daley. He earned first team All-3A Pierce County League honors as both a defensive back and as a kickoff returner. In his career he had 45 tackles, three interceptions (two for touchdowns), five passes broken up, a pair of kickoff returns for touchdowns and one punt return for a TD. He had 29 tackles as a senior and returned an interception 95 yards. He returned two kickoffs for 177 yards and averaged 6.0 yards on five punt returns. On offense he caught three passes for 32 yards and also completed 14-of-20 passes for 152 yards. He also earned all-league honors as a junior. Among the many former Eagles who played at Mount Tahoma were wide receiver Tony Brooks (’89), as well as Will Edge (’06), Gabriel Jackson (’07) and Ronald Baines (’09) off of EWU’s 2010 National Championship team. Listed as a two-star recruit on rivals.com and scout.com.
 
Personal: Communication studies major. Born 6/27/99 in Oklahoma City. Parents are Eric Tillman and Maliks Branch. He is related to former Seattle Seahawks and New England Patriots wide receiver Deion Branch. Nickname is “I.B.”
 

Year	GP	TT	Hi	S	TL-Yds	FF-FR	PBU	I-Yds
2018	7	3	3	0	0-0	0-0	0	0-0
2019	9	14	7	0	1-1	0-0	4	0-0
Totals	16	17	7	0	1-1	0-0	4	0-0