Usage / Role
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Rotational defensive role
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Player Dossier
2020-2023Coastal Carolina
Mason Shelton
LB • 6'2" • 230 lbs • Maryville, TN, USA
Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile
Mason Shelton shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 10.3 disruption score.
Impact Production
21
Developing production for a linebacker
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Reliability
14
Sporadic game-to-game production
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Star Power
32
Limited ceiling signals so far
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Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2021 Regular Season · Coastal Carolina
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 1
- Unique Seasons
- 4
- Program Path
- Coastal Carolina
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Buffalo
Player Story
Mason Shelton built his college career from 2020 through 2023 as a linebacker from Maryville, TN wearing No. 45, spending time with Coastal Carolina. The clearest part of Mason Shelton's career was his defensive...
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- Committed To
- Coastal Carolina
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2020
Mason Shelton, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2021 Regular Season · Coastal Carolina. Mason Shelton shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 10.3 disruption score.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Tackles
- 40
- TFL
- 1
- Touchdowns
- 2
Quick Answers
Mason Shelton quick answers
- Latest team and position
- Coastal Carolina · LB
- Career Tackles
- 40
- Tracked sample
- 4 unique seasons · 4 entries · 18 games
- Best season
- 2021 Regular Season · Coastal Carolina
- Top game
- Buffalo
- Recruit profile
- 3-star · Maryville · Coastal Carolina
- High school pipeline
- Maryville · 24 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
- Latest roster
- No. 45 · Junior
- 2023 Tackles rank
- 21 tackles · LB 552nd (top 45%) · Sun Belt 224th (top 34%) · National 1,903rd (top 32%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Tackles | TFL | Sacks | QB Hur | PD | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 Regular Season | Coastal Carolina | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | - |
| 2021 Regular Season | Coastal Carolina | 4 | 6 | - | 0 | - | - | 2 | 38.1 |
| 2022 Regular Season | Coastal Carolina | 5 | 13 | 0.5 | 0 | - | - | 0 | 21.7 |
| 2023 Regular Season | Coastal Carolina | 9 | 21 | 0.5 | 0 | - | - | 0 | 20.2 |
Related Context
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Mason Shelton played LB for Coastal Carolina. Across 4 tracked seasons, Mason Shelton recorded 40 tackles and 2 touchdowns. His top tracked season came in 2023 with Coastal Carolina.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2021 Regular Season
Coastal Carolina paired 0 primary output with 6.3 efficiency.
Supporting note
2023 Regular Season role shape
impact-led usage with 10.3 efficiency.
Supporting note
Career value stayed steady
2023 Regular Season tracked close to the prior stop by season value score.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: Texas State
Win with 0.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.
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2023 Regular Season · Coastal Carolina
Games
9
Havoc Plays / G
0.1
Efficiency
10.3
Usage
2
Consistency
3.7
Best Game by takeover score
Texas State
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. UCLA: 0. Duquesne: 0. Georgia State: 0. App State: 0. Arkansas State: 0. Marshall: 0. Texas State: 0.5. Army: 0. James Madison: 0
Volume vs Efficiency
Each dot is a game. Farther right means the player carried more of the workload, and higher means they were more efficient with those chances.
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Volume versus efficiency scatter chart. UCLA: 2 by 8.3. Duquesne: 2 by 8.3. Georgia State: 2 by 8.3. App State: 6 by 25. Arkansas State: 1 by 4.2. Marshall: 2 by 8.3. Texas State: 2 by 13.3. Army: 4 by 16.7
Split Comparison
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Wins0.1 · Games = 5 · +0.1 vs Losses
Losses0 · Games = 4 · -0.1 vs Wins
Game Log
Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.
9 games
Featured metric
Havoc Plays
Top game by takeover score
Texas State
Best efficiency game
25 vs App State
| Result | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sat 11/25 | vs James Madison | L 14-56 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Sat 11/18 | @ Army | L 21-28 | 4 | 2 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 11/11 | vs Texas State | W 31-23 | 2 | 0 | — | 0.50 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 10/28 | vs Marshall | W 34-6 | 2 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 10/21 | @ Arkansas State | W 27-17 | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Tue 10/10 | @ App State | W 27-24 | 6 | 4 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Thu 9/21 | vs Georgia State | L 17-30 | 2 | 2 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 9/16 | vs Duquesne | W 66-7 | 2 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sun 9/3 | @ UCLA | L 13-27 | 2 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
Player Story
Mason Shelton story
Mason Shelton built his college career from 2020 through 2023 as a linebacker from Maryville, TN wearing No. 45, spending time with Coastal Carolina. The clearest part of Mason Shelton's career was his defensive production: 40 tackles and 1 tackle for loss across 18 career games in the available record. His largest box-score season came in 2023 with Coastal Carolina. Those numbers show where he fit, how often the ball or action found him, and how his role developed over time.
Defensive careers can be hard to read from one number, but Mason Shelton's production has multiple signals. His career also includes 67 return yards, giving the story more than a single-category snapshot. With 18 career games in the available record, his career has enough shape to show both opportunity and production across Coastal Carolina.
The arc is straightforward: Mason Shelton moved through the depth chart, found a larger role, and turned that opportunity into production that can be understood through standard football numbers.
Career Arc
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Coastal Carolina
2020-2023
Opening stop
Season Value Progression
2020202120222023
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 Regular Season | Coastal Carolina | 0 | — | — | — |
| 2021 Regular Season | Coastal Carolina | 0 | 6.3 | 1 | 0 |
| 2022 Regular Season | Coastal Carolina | 0.5 | 11.8 | 2.2 | 0.5 |
| 2023 Regular Season | Coastal Carolina | 0.5 | 10.3 | 2 | 0 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
vs Buffalo
Week 3 · W 38-26
Win with 0.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0.5
Havoc Plays
29.4 takeover
0.5 disruption/tackle impact with 29.4 takeover score.
#2
vs Texas State
Week 11 · W 31-23 · Conference game
0.5
Havoc Plays
28.9 takeover
Win with 0.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0.5 disruption/tackle impact with 28.9 takeover score.
#3
@ App State
Week 7 · W 27-24 · Conference game
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Havoc Plays
25 takeover
Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 25 takeover score.
#4
@ James Madison
Week 13 · L 7-47 · Conference game
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Havoc Plays
15 takeover
Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 15 takeover score.
#5
@ Army
Week 12 · L 21-28
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Havoc Plays
12 takeover
Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 12 takeover score.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2021 Regular Season · Coastal Carolina
0 primary output · 6.3 efficiency · 1 usage
38.1
#2
2022 Regular Season · Coastal Carolina
21.7
0.5 primary · 11.8 efficiency · 2.2 usage
#3
2023 Regular Season · Coastal Carolina
20.2
0.5 primary · 10.3 efficiency · 2 usage
Milestones
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Impact games
0
Splash games
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10+ tackle games
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