Carson Towt is going to play tight end in the NFL after a seven-year college basketball career at Notre Dame and Northern Arizona. The Indianapolis Colts are hoping to find their next Mo Alie-Cox.
They signed one of the worst free throw shooters in the country!
Several college basketball players have successfully transitioned to NFL tight ends, like Cox, Antonio Gates, Tony Gonzales, Julius Thomas and Jimmy Graham. Others have failed, like Rico Gathers and Caleb Lohner. None of them were as bad from the charity stripe as Towt.
The Indianapolis Colts signed Carson Towt.
As a native of Gilbert, Arizona, Towt did not get any Division I scholarship offers to play college basketball out of high school. However, Northern Arizona saw the potential after a late growth spurt transformed him into a power forward and offered him a position as a preferred walk-on.
Towt accepted the PWO offer and blossomed into a star — just not right away.
The 6-foot-8, 250-pound forward finally burst onto the scene as a sixth-year senior in 2024-25. He averaged 13.3 points and 12.4 rebounds in 33.7 minutes per game for the Lumberjacks to lead the nation with 423 total rebounds.
Because of his two redshirt seasons and a blanket waiver of eligibility in 2020-21, Carson Towt was eligible to play one last year of college hoops in 2025-26. Notre Dame brought him in as a transfer.
The Fighting Irish was not very good but their 24-year-old forward once again dominated the glass. He pulled down a total of 279 rebounds in 31 games to become one of the top-75 rebounders in college basketball history. It was an impressive career. Especially his last two years.
However, Towt does not have a future in the NBA and it seems like he doesn’t want to play overseas.
The former Notre Dame and Northern Arizona basketball player signed with the Indianapolis Colts as a tight end on Tuesday. The hope is that he will become the next Mo Alie-Cox, who signed with the Colts after a standout basketball career at VCU.
No free throws in the NFL!
Only time will tell whether Carson Towt can make the transition from the hardwood to the gridiron. It is a good thing that he no longer has to shoot free throws.
Towt made 51.2% of his free throws as a redshirt freshman in 2020-21, which still wasn’t very good. That number dropped all of the way down to just 32.1% this season.
- 2020-21: 51.2%
- 2021-22: 46.3%
- 2022-23: 40%
- 2023-24: 37.9%
- 2025-26: 35.4%
He just couldn’t put the ball in the hoop.
New style of free-throw miss just dropped pic.twitter.com/eBzMtH8tvV
— Mike Rutherford (@CardChronicle) February 5, 2026
The bench always went wild when he did.
Carson Towt made only three of his last 25 free throw attempts to close out his college basketball career. Now it is off to the NFL as a tight end with the Indianapolis Colts!