Carrier brings size, special-teams juice, and sneaky-upside depth to Minnesota’s linebacker room
In the 2025 season, Mason Carrier flashed as a high-motor linebacker for Minnesota, appearing in all 13 games and finishing with 10 tackles, 2 tackles for loss, and a team-best 8 special-teams tackles, plus a forced fumble. He’s a 6-foot-3, 235-pound redshirt sophomore with strong tackling urgency, good instincts in space, and a reputation as a dependable, coachable worker; recruiting services also pegged him as a three-star prospect and a top-40 linebacker nationally by Rivals. If you want a physical depth-piece who can hunt on coverage units and grow into rotational LB snaps, he’s a fit.
