Nick Barrett

2025 Hampshire Honor Society
2025 co-South Carolina Spirit Award – Defense
2024 SEC Fall Academic Honor Roll
2023 SEC Fall Academic Honor Roll
2022 SEC Fall Academic Honor Roll
2021-22 SEC First-Year Academic Honor Roll
2021 SEC Fall Academic Honor Roll

Redshirt senior defensive tackle who returns for his final season in the Garnet & Black after redshirting in 2024… figures to be a regular in the middle of the defensive line… strong at the point of attack… does everything right on and off the field… has appeared in 39 games over the past four seasons recording 30 tackles… shared the spring’s South Carolina Spirit Award for the defense with DQ Smith… a regular on the SEC Academic Honor Roll and named to the 2025 Hampshire Honor Society.

2024 (Senior)
Appeared in four regular season games plus the bowl game while using his redshirt season… logged five tackles… had 20 snaps against LSU, the only contest in which he appeared through the first five games… appeared in three-straight games against Alabama, Oklahoma and Texas A&M with two tackles versus the Aggies… had one tackle in the Citrus Bowl against Illinois… named to the SEC Fall Academic Honor Roll.

2023 (Junior)
Appeared in all 12 games as a reserve defensive tackle… recorded 11 tackles and one pass breakup… credited with two stops each against Tennessee, Missouri and Texas A&M… named to the SEC Fall Academic Honor Roll.

2022 (Sophomore)
Played in all 13 games as a defensive lineman and special teams performer… credited with 14 tackles, one quarterback hurry, one pass breakup and one interception… had his best game when he posted a career-high three tackles, logged his first quarterback hurry and his first career interception in the Tax-Slayer Gator Bowl against Notre Dame… credited with two stops each against Arkansas, South Carolina State, Missouri and Tennessee… named to the SEC Fall Academic Honor Roll.

2021 (Freshman)
Enrolled in January and went through spring drills… earned a letter after appearing in nine games, primarily on special teams… named to the SEC Fall Academic Honor Roll and the 2021-22 SEC First-Year Academic Honor Roll.

HIGH SCHOOL
Graduated from Eastern Wayne High School in Goldsboro, N.C. in December of 2020… did not play in the fall of 2020 as North Carolina football pushed its schedule to the spring… was a starter at defensive tackle on the Warriors varsity team since his freshman season… co-captain… collected 66 tackles including 15 sacks as a junior in 2019… coached by Leander Oates… was an honor roll student.

PERSONAL
Nicholas Brian Barrett was born July 28, 2003… graduated in May 2025 with a degree in sport and entertainment management.