Player Dossier

2021-2025

Northwestern

Carmine Bastone

DL • 6'2" • 290 lbs • Saint Charles, IL, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Carmine Bastone shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 19.6 disruption score.

Usage / Role

62%

Regular defensive contributor

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Impact Production

100

Top-tier box-score impact for a defensive lineman

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Reliability

100

Regular contributor with several takeover games

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Star Power

80

High-upside career profile

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2025 Postseason · Northwestern

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
5
Program Path
Northwestern
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Western Illinois

Player Story

Carmine Bastone built his college career from 2021 through 2025 as a defensive lineman from Saint Charles, IL wearing No. 90, spending time with Northwestern. The clearest part of Carmine Bastone's career was his...

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Carmine Bastone, DL. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Postseason · Northwestern. Carmine Bastone shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 19.6 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
59
TFL
9
Sacks
6
QB hurries
7
Passes defended
1

Quick Answers

Carmine Bastone quick answers

Latest team and position
Northwestern · DL
Career Tackles
59
Tracked sample
5 unique seasons · 7 entries · 28 games
Best season
2025 Postseason · Northwestern
Top game
Western Illinois
Latest roster
No. 90 · Senior
2025 Tackles rank
24 tackles · DL 275th (top 26%) · Big Ten 209th (top 27%) · National 1,755th (top 29%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2021 Regular SeasonNorthwestern00-0--0-
2022 Regular SeasonNorthwestern23-0--039.2
2023 PostseasonNorthwestern11311--037
2023 Regular SeasonNorthwestern11202.513-037
2024 Regular SeasonNorthwestern491.51.5--031.6
2025 PostseasonNorthwestern111-0--059.5
2025 Regular SeasonNorthwestern112342.541059.5

Related Context

Carmine Bastone played DL for Northwestern. Across 5 tracked seasons, Carmine Bastone recorded 59 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Northwestern.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2025 Postseason

Northwestern paired 11.5 primary output with 19.6 efficiency.

Supporting note

2023 Postseason role shape

impact-led usage with 16.4 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value stayed steady

2025 Regular Season tracked close to the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Purdue

Win with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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2023 Postseason · Northwestern

Games

11

Havoc Plays / G

0.8

Efficiency

16.4

Usage

5.4

Consistency

12.1

Best Game by takeover score

Purdue

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Utah: 2. Rutgers: 0. UTEP: 0.5. Duke: 0. Penn State: 2. Howard: 1. Nebraska: 0. Iowa: 0. Wisconsin: 0. Purdue: 3. Illinois: 0

Volume vs Efficiency

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Volume on the x-axis, quality on the y-axis.

Volume versus efficiency scatter chart. Utah: 3 by 32.5. Rutgers: 2 by 8.3. UTEP: 1 by 9.2. Duke: 3 by 12.5. Penn State: 2 by 28.3. Howard: 0 by 10. Nebraska: 4 by 16.7. Iowa: 2 by 8.3. Wisconsin: 1 by 4.2. Purdue: 3 by 42.5. Illinois: 2 by 8.3

Split Comparison

Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.

Wins1.1 · Games = 6 · +0.7 vs Losses
Losses0.4 · Games = 5 · -0.7 vs Wins

Game Log

Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.

11 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Purdue

Best efficiency game

42.5 vs Purdue

Result
Sun 12/24vs UtahSplash gameW 14-732110
Sat 11/25@ IllinoisW 45-4321000
Sat 11/18vs PurdueSplash gameW 23-1533210
Sat 11/11@ WisconsinW 24-1010000
Sat 11/4vs IowaL 7-1021000
Sat 10/21@ NebraskaL 9-1742000
Sat 10/7vs HowardW 23-2000000
Sat 9/30vs Penn StateSplash gameL 13-4122000
Sat 9/16@ DukeL 14-3831000
Sat 9/9vs UTEPW 38-7100.5000
Sun 9/3@ RutgersL 7-2420000

Player Story

Carmine Bastone story

Carmine Bastone built his college career from 2021 through 2025 as a defensive lineman from Saint Charles, IL wearing No. 90, spending time with Northwestern. The clearest part of Carmine Bastone's career was his defensive production: 59 tackles, 9 tackles for loss, 6 sacks, and 1 pass defended across 28 career games in the available record. That gives Carmine Bastone's career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.

Career Arc

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    Northwestern

    2021-2025

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

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SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2021 Regular SeasonNorthwestern0
2022 Regular SeasonNorthwestern06.31.40
2023 PostseasonNorthwestern8.516.45.48.5
2023 Regular SeasonNorthwestern8.516.45.40
2024 Regular SeasonNorthwestern316.95.4-5.5
2025 PostseasonNorthwestern11.519.67.58.5
2025 Regular SeasonNorthwestern11.519.67.50

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs Western Illinois

Week 2 · W 42-7

Win with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

3

Havoc Plays

82.2 takeover

3 disruption/tackle impact with 82.2 takeover score.

#2

vs Purdue

Week 12 · W 23-15 · Conference game

3

Havoc Plays

80.8 takeover

Win with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

3 disruption/tackle impact with 80.8 takeover score.

#3

vs No. 25 Michigan

Week 12 · L 22-24 · Conference game · Ranked opponent

2

Havoc Plays

67.8 takeover

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 67.8 takeover score.

#4

vs Penn State

Week 5 · L 13-41 · Conference game

2

Havoc Plays

65 takeover

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 65 takeover score.

#5

@ Maryland

Week 7 · W 37-10 · Conference game

2

Havoc Plays

64.7 takeover

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 64.7 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2025 Postseason · Northwestern

11.5 primary output · 19.6 efficiency · 7.5 usage

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#2

2025 Regular Season · Northwestern

59.5

11.5 primary · 19.6 efficiency · 7.5 usage

#3

2022 Regular Season · Northwestern

39.2

0 primary · 6.3 efficiency · 1.4 usage

Milestones

5

Impact games

7

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games