#16

Rushawn Lawrence

Senior defensive lineman for Minnesota. 2025: 1 sack, 3 tackles for loss, 20 tackles.

DL · Minnesota · Sr. · #16

6′2″ · 270 lb · Philadelphia, PA

CFB Index 42 · #202 of 330 interior linemenLow confidenceReturning to Minnesota for 2026

The numbers

sack · 2025

3 TFL · 20 tackles

Best game: 1 sacks, 1 TFL, 1 tackles, vs Rutgers

His career numbers, season by season

The story

4 defensive lineman for Minnesota. 2025: 1 sack, 3 tackles for loss, 20 tackles.

Signed with Stony Brook in 2022.
Transferred from Stony Brook to Minnesota in 2025.

His career, year by year

How he plays

Wins his gap play after play.

Sacks: 63rd percentile.

The full scouting read

Rushawn Lawrence

DL · Minnesota · Sr · #16

Wins his gap play after play. Stony Brook to Minnesota — the move that set up everything since. The receipt: 4 tackles against Nebraska — Week 8, 2025.

Low coverage — composed from the verified record.

positional archetype classification
portal record
game log

2025 snapshot

Season context · Team result + system

2025Minnesota8-5HC: P.J. Fleck · Balanced, slow tempo

Where this defender ranks vs the field

Box-score production percentiles vs the position cohort

42Rotational starter #202 of 330?

Low confidence6 metrics · season cumulative

Concern: passes defended (18th percentile).

Box-score production (6)

Sacks#847 / 2975 · 63rd pct

1.0

Tackles for loss#1001 / 2975 · 63rd pct

3.0

Solo tackles#1855 / 2975 · 35th pct

Tackles#1998 / 2975 · 32nd pct

QB hurries#1662 / 2975 · 22nd pct

Passes defended#1916 / 2975 · 18th 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
Home7g	1.9	0.1	0.1	0.0
Road3g	2.3	0.7	0.0	0.0

First half vs Second half

	TKL/g	TFL/g	SACK/g	PD/g
Weeks 1-76g	1.8	0.5	0.2	0.0
Weeks 8+4g	2.2	0.0	0.0	0.0

Supporting cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2026 season

Head Coach

P.J. Fleck

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

42 · #202 of 330 interior linemen

Unranked recruit. Now #202 at the position.

2026 outlook

Outside shot for All-Big Ten

Based on 2025: #41 of 69 Big Ten DLs

How the All-Big Ten 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	Minnesota	20	11	3.0	1.0	--	--	--
Career		20	11	3.0	1.0	--	--	--

Signature game

SIGNATURE GAME · Week 8 · 2025

W 24–6

vs Nebraska

4 TOT · 2 SOLO

With T. Weston — 39 AVG · 3 IN 20 · 45 LONG · D. Taylor — 148 rush yds (24 car) · 1 TD

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week

2025 season · 10 games

Box score · CFBD

Wk	Opp	TKL	SOLO	TFL	SACK	INT	Note
Wk 1	W 23-10vs Buffalo	2	1	0.0	0.0	—
Wk 2	W 66-0vs Northwestern State	1	0	0.0	0.0	—
Wk 3	L 14-27@ California	4	3	2.0	0.0	—	Season-high 4 tackles
Wk 5	W 31-28vs Rutgers	1	1	1.0	1.0	—
Wk 6	L 3-42@ Ohio State	1	1	0.0	0.0	—
Wk 7	W 27-20vs Purdue	2	1	0.0	0.0	—
Wk 8	W 24-6vs Nebraska	4	2	0.0	0.0	—
Wk 9	L 3-41@ Iowa	2	2	0.0	0.0	—
Wk 10	W 23-20vs Michigan State	2	0	0.0	0.0	—
Wk 14	W 17-7vs Wisconsin	1	0	0.0	0.0	—
Total		20	11	3.0	1.0	—

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

Rushawn Lawrence

2022

202510 games

2025 snapshot

Splits & context

Awards

Rotational

Career stats

Signature game

Game log

How he plays

DNA match

Two-Gap Base

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