Carson Schwesinger with the Cleveland Browns, 2025
With the Cleveland Browns, 2025. Photo: Erik Drost, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Linebacker, UCLA, 2021–⁠24

Carson Schwesinger

Number
No. 49
Height
6′2″
Weight
225 lb
Class (2024)
Junior
Hometown
Westlake Village, CA
Born
Feb 24, 2003, in Moorpark, California

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Carson Schwesinger played linebacker at UCLA (2021–⁠24). The Cleveland Browns took Schwesinger in round 2, No. 33 overall in the 2025 NFL Draft.

At a glance

Best season
136
Tackles, 2024 (UCLA, 5–⁠7)
Best game
13 tackles
Vs. Minnesota, week 7, 2024: No. 2 defensive game in FBS that week
National rank
No. 3
In FBS in tackles, 2024
Drafted
No. 33
Round 2, 2025 NFL Draft (Cleveland Browns)

Career highs

17tackles, career highat Washington, 20242sacks, career highvs. Minnesota, 20242interceptions, career highvs. Iowa, 2024

Honors

All-America: AP 2024

Defense

Tackles, season by season, with his team’s record
SeasonTeamTklSoloTFLSacksIntPDHur
2022UCLA15130.50001
2023UCLA12621000
2024UCLA136908.54233
Career163109115234

Season lines from CollegeFootballData, regular season and bowls. A dash: the source has no number for that season (often an FCS season), and career totals count only the numbers on file.

On the roster

SeasonTeamNo.PosClassHtWt
2021UCLA49LBRS
2022UCLA49LBFr.
2023UCLA49LBSo.
2024UCLA49LBJr.6′2″225

As each season’s roster listed the player (CollegeFootballData). Classes before the latest listing are counted back from it; “Yr 1” is the year on file where that count can’t place a season he played (a redshirt, transfer or 2020 year); height and weight as last listed.

Game by game

2024 UCLA 12 games, 136 tackles, 4 sacks, 2 INT
DateOpponentResultTklSoloTFLSacksIntPD
Aug 31atHawai’iW 16–⁠13771000
Sep 14vs.IndianaL 13–⁠42210000
Sep 21atLSUL 17–⁠341270.5000
Sep 28vs.OregonL 13–⁠341380000
Oct 5atPenn StateL 11–⁠271560.5000
Oct 12vs.MinnesotaL 17–⁠2113124.5200
Oct 19atRutgersW 35–⁠321040000
Nov 2atNebraskaW 27–⁠201391102
Nov 8vs.IowaW 20–⁠17750020
Nov 15atWashingtonL 19–⁠3117100000
Nov 23vs.USCL 13–⁠1912100000
Nov 30vs.Fresno StateW 20–⁠1315111101
2023 UCLA 4 games, 12 tackles, 1 sack
DateOpponentResultTklSoloTFLSacksIntPD
Sep 16vs.North Carolina CentralW 59–⁠7431000
Oct 14atOregon StateL 24–⁠36400000
Oct 21atStanfordW 42–⁠7331100
Nov 11vs.Arizona StateL 7–⁠17100000
2022 UCLA 10 games, 15 tackles
DateOpponentResultTklSoloTFLSacksIntPD
Sep 3vs.Bowling GreenW 45–⁠17100.5000
Sep 10vs.Alabama StateW 45–⁠7330000
Sep 30vs.WashingtonW 40–⁠32110000
Oct 8vs.UtahW 42–⁠32110000
Oct 22atOregonL 30–⁠45110000
Oct 29vs.StanfordW 38–⁠13430000
Nov 5atArizona StateW 50–⁠36110000
Nov 12vs.ArizonaL 28–⁠34110000
Nov 19vs.USCL 45–⁠48110000
Nov 25atCaliforniaW 35–⁠28110000

Box scores from CollegeFootballData, 2004 on. ✦ postseason; ★ a career high on file.

Before the draft

DrillCombine 2025
Height6′2½″
Weight242 lb
Arm length31⅝″
Hand size9¼″
Wingspan77½″
Vertical jump39½″
Bench press20 reps

Combine and pro day results compiled by array-carpenter (nfl-draft-data).

In the NFL

2 seasons, 21 games with a stat; latest team: Cleveland Browns.

SeasonTeamGTklSacksInt
2025Cleveland Browns161472.52
2026 (so far)Cleveland Browns54110
NFL career211883.52

Regular seasons, from nflverse (CC BY 4.0). G counts games in which the player recorded a stat.

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