Player Dossier

2021-2024

UCLA

Carson Schwesinger

LB • 6'2" • 225 lbs • Westlake Village, CA, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Carson Schwesinger shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 57.4 disruption score.

Usage / Role

100%

Featured defensive role

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Impact Production

100

Top-tier box-score impact for a linebacker

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Reliability

83

Regular contributor with several takeover games

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Star Power

91

Blue-chip, NFL-level ceiling

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · UCLA

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
4
Program Path
UCLA
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Minnesota

Player Story

Carson Schwesinger built his college career from 2021 through 2024 as a linebacker from Westlake Village, CA wearing No. 49, spending time with UCLA. The clearest part of Carson Schwesinger's career was his defensive...

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NFL Draft

Draft Year
2025
Selection
Round 2 · Pick 1
Overall
No. 33
NFL Team
Cleveland Browns

Carson Schwesinger, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · UCLA. Carson Schwesinger shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 57.4 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
163
TFL
11
Sacks
5
QB hurries
4
Passes defended
3

Quick Answers

Carson Schwesinger quick answers

Latest team and position
UCLA · LB
Career Tackles
163
Tracked sample
4 unique seasons · 4 entries · 26 games
Best season
2024 Regular Season · UCLA
Top game
Minnesota
NFL Draft
2025 · Round 2 · Pick 1 · Cleveland Browns
Latest roster
No. 49 · Junior
2024 Tackles rank
136 tackles · LB 3rd (top 1%) · Big Ten 1st (top 1%) · National 3rd (top 1%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2021 Regular SeasonUCLA00-0--0-
2022 Regular SeasonUCLA10150.501-08.9
2023 Regular SeasonUCLA41221--028.6
2024 Regular SeasonUCLA121368.5433070.8

Related Context

Carson Schwesinger played LB for UCLA. Across 4 tracked seasons, Carson Schwesinger recorded 163 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2024 with UCLA.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2024 Regular Season

UCLA paired 20.5 primary output with 57.4 efficiency.

Supporting note

2024 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 57.4 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value is trending up

2024 Regular Season improved on the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Minnesota

Loss with backfield disruption leading the way. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

Analysis workspace

Season Workbench

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Season Explorer

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2024 Regular Season · UCLA

Games

12

Havoc Plays / G

1.7

Efficiency

57.4

Usage

16.4

Consistency

25.7

Best Game by takeover score

Minnesota

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Hawai'i: 1. Indiana: 0. LSU: 0.5. Oregon: 0. Penn State: 0.5. Minnesota: 7.5. Rutgers: 0. Nebraska: 4. Iowa: 2. Washington: 0. USC: 1. Fresno State: 4

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

Volume versus efficiency scatter chart. Hawai'i: 7 by 39.2. Indiana: 2 by 8.3. LSU: 12 by 55. Oregon: 13 by 50. Penn State: 15 by 55. Minnesota: 13 by 100. Rutgers: 10 by 41.7. Nebraska: 13 by 90. Iowa: 7 by 49.2. Washington: 17 by 50. USC: 12 by 60. Fresno State: 15 by 90

Split Comparison

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

Wins2.2 · Games = 5 · +0.8 vs Losses
Losses1.4 · Games = 7 · -0.8 vs Wins

Game Log

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

12 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Minnesota

Best efficiency game

100 vs Minnesota

Result
Sat 11/30vs Fresno State10+ tackles · Splash gameW 20-131511111
Sun 11/24vs USC10+ tacklesL 13-191210000
Sat 11/16@ Washington10+ tacklesL 19-311710000
Sat 11/9vs IowaSplash gameW 20-17750020
Sat 11/2@ Nebraska10+ tackles · Splash gameW 27-20139112
Sat 10/19@ Rutgers10+ tacklesW 35-32104000
Sun 10/13vs Minnesota10+ tackles · 2+ sacksL 17-2113124.5020
Sat 10/5@ Penn State10+ tacklesL 11-271560.5000
Sun 9/29vs Oregon10+ tacklesL 13-34138000
Sat 9/21@ LSU10+ tacklesL 17-341270.5000
Sat 9/14vs IndianaL 13-4221000
Sat 8/31@ Hawai'iW 16-1377100

Player Story

Carson Schwesinger story

Carson Schwesinger built his college career from 2021 through 2024 as a linebacker from Westlake Village, CA wearing No. 49, spending time with UCLA. The clearest part of Carson Schwesinger's career was his defensive production: 163 tackles, 11 tackles for loss, 5 sacks, and 2 interceptions across 26 career games in the available record. That gives Carson Schwesinger's career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.

Career Arc

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    UCLA

    2021-2024

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

2021202220232024
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2021 Regular SeasonUCLA0
2022 Regular SeasonUCLA1.57.81.71.5
2023 Regular SeasonUCLA3204.91.5
2024 Regular SeasonUCLA20.557.416.417.5

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs Minnesota

Week 7 · L 17-21 · Conference game

Loss with backfield disruption leading the way.

7.5

Havoc Plays

100 takeover

7.5 disruption/tackle impact with 100 takeover score.

#2

vs Fresno State

Week 14 · W 20-13

4

Havoc Plays

81.1 takeover

Win with 4 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

4 disruption/tackle impact with 81.1 takeover score.

#3

@ Nebraska

Week 10 · W 27-20 · Conference game

4

Havoc Plays

81.1 takeover

Win with 4 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

4 disruption/tackle impact with 81.1 takeover score.

#4

@ Stanford

Week 8 · W 42-7 · Conference game

2

Havoc Plays

71.7 takeover

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 71.7 takeover score.

#5

vs Iowa

Week 11 · W 20-17 · Conference game

2

Havoc Plays

58.6 takeover

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 58.6 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2024 Regular Season · UCLA

20.5 primary output · 57.4 efficiency · 16.4 usage

70.8

#2

2023 Regular Season · UCLA

28.6

3 primary · 20 efficiency · 4.9 usage

#3

2022 Regular Season · UCLA

8.9

1.5 primary · 7.8 efficiency · 1.7 usage

Milestones

4

Impact games

5

Splash games

9

10+ tackle games