The UW linebacker is one of 52 up for top linebacker accolade.
Last season, Carson Bruener was a reserve linebacker for the University of Washington football team, coming off the bench in 14 of 15 games, starting only when teammate Alphonzo Tuputala was injured and couldn't go against Oregon State.
This week, the 6-foot-2, 226-pound Bruener was one of 52 college football linebackers nationwide who were named to the watch list for the Dick Butkus Award, which is given to the nation's most outstanding player at that position. All Bruener has ever done is shrug at his unconventional career path in which he became a five-game starter as an injury fill-in for Edefuan Ulofoshio in 2021 and piled up 16 tackles and a sack and a half in his first game-opening outing against Stanford and was named Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Week. He has four career games of 14 tackles or more.
One reason is the Husky linebacker talent has been highly accomplished with the players ahead of him in Cam Bright, Tuputala and Ulofoshio each receiving either All-Pac-12 first-team or honorable-mention accolades while in Montlake.
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