2025 Football Roster
Jersey Number 35
Reid Carrico
- Position:
- Linebacker
- Height:
- 6-2
- Weight:
- 230
- Class:
- Redshirt Senior
- Hometown:
- Ironton, Ohio
- High School:
- Ironton
- Prev School:
- Ohio State
- Played in 46 career games with 15 starts
- Finished with 128 career tackles, including 56 solo stops, 4.5 sacks, 9.5 tackles for loss, a forced fumble, a fumble recovery and a pass breakup
2025 (r-Sr.)
- Academic All-Big 12 Conference First-Team Honoree
- Played in 12 games and started two
- Finished with 69 tackles for the season, including 39 solo stops, 4.5 sacks, eight tackles for loss, a fumble recovery and a pass breakup
- Collected 11 tackles with five solo stops and 1.5 tackles for loss, including one sack, against Texas Tech
- Led the team with eight tackles at Arizona State, including six solo stops and had one tackle for loss
- Notched a career-best two sacks and matched his career high in tackles for loss with two, while totaling five tackles against Colorado
- Registered six tackles at Houston
- Co-led the defense and matched his season high with seven tackles, including five solo stops, against TCU
- WVU Team Captain: TCU
- Collected five tackles, including four solo stops at UCF
- Totaled five tackles, including three solo stops at BYU
- Recorded a season-high seven tackles with three solo stops and one tackle for loss against Utah
- Co-led the defense with four tackles with three solo stops at Kansas
- Finished with six tackles and a half tackle for loss vs. Pitt
- WVU Team Captain: Pitt
- Tallied one tackle before exiting the Ohio game with an injury
- Made his first career sack in the season opener vs. Robert Morris
- Registered a career-high two tackles for loss vs. Robert Morris
- Added four tackles including three solos vs. Robert Morris
2024 (r-Jr.)
- Played in 12 games and started two
- Added depth at linebacker and used extensively on special teams
- Used on 418 plays, including 279 on defense
- Season-high 54 defensive snaps against Baylor
- Season-high 16 special teams snaps against Kansas State and Baylor
- Fifth-leading tackler on the team with 54 tackles, including 17 solo stops, 1.5 tackles for loss and a forced fumble
- Had eight tackles, including assisting on a tackle for loss at Texas Tech
- Season-best 16 tackles against Baylor
- WVU Juice Award: Oklahoma State
- WVU Defensive Champion: Albany
- Enrolled at WVU in January 2024
2023 (r-So.) - Ohio State
- Played for coach Ryan Day at Ohio State
- Academic All-Big Ten Conference
- Played in the first 10 games of the season, mostly on special teams, before missing the final three games
2022 (r-Fr.) - Ohio State
- Academic All-Big Ten Conference
- Ohio State Scholar-Athlete
- Played in eight games on special teams
2021 (Fr.) - Ohio State
- Ohio State Scholar-Athlete
- Saw action against Akron, Rutgers, Maryland ad Michigan State
High School
- Two-way player and starting running back for coach Trevon Pendelton at Ironton
- First player ever to be named the Ohio Prep Sportswriters Southeast District Player of the Year on offense and defense in the same season
- Earned all-conference First Team and all-district honors
- Ohio’s Defensive Player of the Year in 2019 by the Ohio Prep Sportswriters
- Had 56 tackles, including four sacks and 17 tackles for loss in 12 games as a senior in 2020
- Rushed for 1,544 yards and 25 touchdowns in helping Ironton reach the Division V state championship game
- Had 187 yards on 29 carries in a 22-19 win over Roger Bacon in the state semifinals
- Rushed for more than 3,000 yards with 48 career touchdowns
- Rated No. 4 player in Ohio and a consensus four-star prospect
- Ranked No. 84 nationally regardless of position by 247Sports.com
- Dubbed nation’s fifth-ranked linebacker prospect
Personal
- Son of Shelley and the late Gary Carrico
- His great uncle, Earl Webb, holds the MLB record for most doubles in a season
- One of two children (1 brother)
- Graduated with his bachelor’s degree in integrated studies in May 2024 and his master’s degree in business administration in May 2025
- Big 12 Commissioner’s Honor Roll
- Garrett Ford Academic Honor Roll
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