Braden Turner

2025 Redshirt Junior:

Earned All-Big Ten Honorable Mention … Played in all 13 games with 12 starts … Posted 56 total tackles, 1.5 tackles for loss, two forced fumbles, two fumble recoveries, a touchdown, an interception and two pass breakups … Set career highs in tackles, forced fumbles, interceptions and pass breakups … Recorded five total tackles against Tulane (8/30) … Finished the game against Western Illinois (9/5) with one total tackle … Posted 0.5 tackles for loss for the first time this season against Oregon (9/13) … Tallied five total tackles against UCLA (9/27) … Named to the PFF Big Ten Team of the Week with seven total tackles, a tackle for loss and a 77.1 grade at Penn State (10/11) … Added six total tackles (two solo) and a forced fumble against Purdue (10/18) … Became the first Wildcat defensive back to force fumbles in back-to-back games since Ibraheim Campbell in 2014 when he forced another fumble against Nebraska (10/25) … Posted four total tackles (three solo) at USC (11/7) … Turned in three tackles, an interception, a fumble recovery and a pass breakup against Michigan (11/15), becoming the first Big Ten player to post these figures in a single game since the 2022 season … Led the Wildcats with eight tackles (three solo) against Minnesota (11/22) … Logged a pass breakup with seven total tackles (two solo) at Illinois (11/29) … Recorded his second career interception, logged six total tackles (three solo) and returned a fumble recovery for a touchdown in the GameAbove Sports Bowl against Central Michigan (12/26) … Became the first NU player with an interception, a fumble recovery and a touchdown in the same game since Chi Chi Ariguzo against Syracuse on Sept. 1, 2012.

2024 Redshirt Sophomore:

Played in 12 games–starting in seven–and logged 37 tackles, two pass breakups, one tackle for loss, and a fumble recovery … Named Academic All-Big Ten … Recorded five tackles in a win over Miami (Ohio) (8/31) … Tallied his first-career tackle for loss, while totaling four tackles, against Duke (9/6) … Had four tackles against Indiana (10/5) … Registered four tackles, a pass breakup, and a fumble recovery in a win at Maryland (10/11) … Recorded four tackles against Wisconsin (10/19) … Notched a career-high six tackles and a pass breakup against Ohio State (11/16).

2023 Redshirt First-Year:

Appeared in 10 games, totaling seven tackles, 1.0 tackle for loss, and one fumble recovery … Named Academic All-Big Ten … Recorded his first career tackle, a tackle for loss against UTEP (9/9) … Tallied first career fumble recovery against Penn State, coming on the game’s opening kickoff (9/30) … Had a career-high two tackles in road victory over Illinois (11/25).

2022 First-Year:

Did not see game action this season and redshirted.

High School:

Verbally committed to Northwestern on June 25, 2021 … Ranked as the No. 114 cornerback in the country and the No. 49 overall recruit in Alabama (247) … Came up with five interceptions and recorded 40 tackles in his last full season at McGill … High school teammates with Northwestern wide receiver Jordan Mosley.