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2025 Football Roster

11 Charlie Newton

  • Position Linebacker
  • Height 6-3
  • Class Junior
  • Weight 235
  • Hometown Chicago, Ill.
  • Previous School Walter Payton Prep
  • College Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
  • Major Civil Engineering & Engineering Mechanics

Biography

2024: Appeared in all 10 games making 40 total tackles … Had 26 solo tackles and 14 assisted tackles … Finished with seven multi-tackle games, including a career-best 14 tackles at Harvard (Nov. 9) … Had nine tackles with a sack in the win over Cornell on Nov. 23.

2023: Appeared in all 10 games and made 13 total tackles… Had nine solo tackles and four assisted tackles… Recorded three multi-tackle games… Totaled a career-best three tackles at Lafayette (Sept. 16).

HIGH SCHOOL: A 2023 graduate of Walter Payton College Prep in Chicago, Illinois … A four-year varsity letterman on the football team coached by Craig Knoche … Two-time Chicago Sun Times All-Public League (first team in 2022) ... All-conference selection on offense and defense in 2020, 2021 and 2022 ... Named a team captain during his senior season in 2022 … Part of a team that won three conference championships (2019, 2021, 2022) … Played WR/LB as a freshman, CB/WR as a sophomore, LB/S/CB/WR as a junior and LB/WR as a senior … Recipient of the Walter Payton Grizzly Award as a senior … Named the Walter Payton Team Defensive MVP as a junior … Was a leading receiver on the team with over 1,000 receiving yards during his junior and senior seasons … Registered over 70 tackles as a junior and senior … Was also part of the basketball and track and field teams ... AP Scholar with Distinction ... Ilinois State Scholar.
 
PERSONAL: Enrolled at Fu Foundation School of Engineering & Applied Sciences.

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Historical Player Information

  • 43

    2023First Year

    Linebacker
    6'2" 215 lbs
    43
  • 43

    2024Sophomore

    Linebacker
    6'2" 225 lbs
    43
  • 11

    2025Junior

    Linebacker
    6'3" 235 lbs
    11