Growing up the son of former Pittsburgh Steelers TE and current team scout Mark Bruener, football is all that Washington linebacker Carson Bruener has known. He’s always been “Mark’s son” but now in a funny way of life coming full circle, Mark Bruener is going to be known as “Carson’s Dad” because the Washington Huskies’ linebacker and team captain finds himself on the cusp of achieving his life-long dream of making the NFL.
Following a dominant 2024 season at the University of Washington where he was a team captain, earned the program’s Defensive MVP award, and was one of just two Big Ten players with 100+ tackles and three interceptions on the year, Bruener finds himself on the doorstep of making the NFL, just like his dad once did.