#44

Braden Mullen

Senior defensive lineman for Charlotte. 2025: 0.5 sacks, 3 tackles for loss, 19 tackles.

DL · Charlotte · Sr. · #44

6′4″ · 245 lb · Glenview, IL

CFB Index 23 · #360 of 420 edge rushersLow confidenceReturning to Charlotte for 2026

How he plays

Wins his gap play after play.

QB hurries: 72nd percentile.

The full scouting read

The numbers

0.5

sacks · 2025

3 TFL · 19 tackles · 2 hurries

Best game: 1 TFL, 6 tackles, at South Florida

His career numbers, season by season

The story

4 defensive lineman for Charlotte. 2025: 0.5 sacks, 3 tackles for loss, 19 tackles.

Transferred from Dartmouth to Charlotte in 2025.

His career, year by year

Braden Mullen

DL · Charlotte · Sr · #44

Wins his gap play after play. Braden Mullen arrived at Charlotte from Dartmouth. The receipt: 6 tackles, 1 TFL against South Florida — Week 6, 2025.

Low coverage — composed from the verified record.

positional archetype classification
portal record
game log

2025 snapshot

Season context · Team result + system

2025Charlotte1-11HC: Tim Albin · Balanced, slow tempo

Where this defender ranks vs the field

Box-score production percentiles vs the position cohort

23Below cohort / limited sample #360 of 420?

Medium confidence6 metrics · season cumulative

Concern: solo tackles (8th percentile).

Box-score production (6)

QB hurries#634 / 2975 · 72nd pct

Tackles for loss#1001 / 2975 · 63rd pct

3.0

Sacks#1367 / 2975 · 51st pct

0.5

Passes defended#1191 / 2975 · 48th pct

Tackles#2072 / 2975 · 29th pct

Solo tackles#2694 / 2975 · 8th pct

Percentiles are versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score production. There are no play-by-play efficiency bars here: CFBD's play-value model credits offensive players only, so no defensive EPA exists to rank.

Splits & context

Splits · Per-game

2025 season · 10 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	TKL/g	TFL/g	SACK/g	PD/g
Home6g	1.3	0.2	0.0	0.2
Road4g	2.8	0.4	0.1	0.0

First half vs Second half

	TKL/g	TFL/g	SACK/g	PD/g
Weeks 1-75g	1.8	0.2	0.0	0.2
Weeks 8+5g	2.0	0.4	0.1	0.0

Supporting cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2026 season

Head Coach

Tim Albin

Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.

Awards

Player standing · 2025

Rotational

Tackle volume for the position in rotation-piece range.

Recognition

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Production · CFB Index Score

23 · #360 of 420 edge rushers

2026 outlook

Outside shot for All-AAC

Based on 2025: #42 of 53 American Athletic DLs

How the All-AAC estimate is computed

15% estimated, 95% confidence interval 13–17%. Base rate measured from players who finished at a comparable rank in their conference and came back the next season. It is an estimate from a small sample, not a forecast of this player.

Career stats

Season	Team
2025	Charlotte	19	5	3.0	0.5	1	--	--
Career		19	5	3.0	0.5	1	--	--

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week

2025 season · 10 games

Box score · CFBD

Wk	Opp	TKL	SOLO	TFL	SACK	INT	PD	Note
Wk 1	L 11-34vs App State	1	0	0.0	0.0	—	0
Wk 2	L 3-20vs North Carolina	0	0	0.0	0.0	—	1
Wk 4	L 17-28vs Rice	1	0	0.0	0.0	—	0
Wk 6	L 26-54@ South Florida	6	2	1.0	0.0	—	0	Season-high 6 tackles
Wk 7	L 7-24@ Army	1	0	0.0	0.0	—	0
Wk 8	L 14-49vs Temple	2	0	0.5	0.0	—	0
Wk 9	L 20-54vs North Texas	2	0	0.0	0.0	—	0
Wk 11	L 22-48@ East Carolina	1	0	0.5	0.5	—	0
Wk 12	L 7-28vs UTSA	2	1	1.0	0.0	—	0
Wk 14	L 0-27@ Tulane	3	2	0.0	0.0	—	0
Total		19	5	3.0	0.5	—	1

How he plays

Play style

Stout at the point of attack — steady tackle-for-loss production without a standout pass-rush number.

CFB Index positional classification

Activity vs finishing · season enumeration

What the box score actually says

10 games

19Tackles

5Solo

3TFL

0.5Sacks

1Pass def.

0INT

19 tackles. 1 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 3 TFL.

Week 21 PD
Week 110.5 sacks

Counts only, never a rate — splash-event sample sizes this small (interceptions, pass breakups, TFL) are noise as a rate and signal only as a tally.

2026 Outlook

Charlotte

2026 Depth chart

Projected starter

Defensive line · Charlotte

Returning around him

Transfer portal: -8 net (19 in / 27 out)

2026 Award watch

No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)

Charlotte · Last season: 1-11 · Talent rank #104 · 2026 recruiting class #103

DNA match

Player DNA

Two-Gap Base

Stout at the point of attack — steady tackle-for-loss production without a standout pass-rush number.

IDL

His 2025 production profile sits closest to Nate Temple’s 2023 season.

Nate Temple

90%match

Pittsburgh · 2023

Keegan Davis

Florida International · 2022

85%

John Ward

San José State · 2024

All-Mountain West

85%

Joseph Zelinsky

Eastern Michigan · 2023

84%

Antoineo Harris Jr.

New Mexico · 2024

83%

Matches Nate on

Height

Hurry rate

Weight

Not enough data yet for this comparison.

As a freshman, his production profile tracks closest to David Bailey's freshman season at Stanford (2022).

David Bailey

83%match

Stanford · 2022

Consensus All-AmericanNFL Rd 1 · Pk 2

Keegan Davis

Florida International · 2022

All-Conference USA

79%

Jalil Clemons

Memphis · 2020

78%

Gabe Hunter

Boise State · 2022

78%

T.J. Searcy

Florida · 2023

78%

Matches David on

Weight

Sack rate

TFL rate

Player DNA

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Jacob Ferguson

Georgia Southern · 2025

80%

Stats from CFBD · ESPN · fan discourse. Every figure computed from source tables — not invented. Methodology

202510 games

2025 snapshot

Splits & context

Awards

Rotational

Career stats

Game log

How he plays

DNA match

Two-Gap Base

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