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2025 NIU Football Roster

Scott Walstrom, NIU
Scott Walstrom, NIU
Scott Walstrom, NIU
Scott Walstrom, NIU

10 Mark Hensley

  • Height 6-3
  • Weight 290
  • Class Redshirt Sophomore
  • Position Defensive Tackle
  • Hometown Labadie, Mo.
  • High School Washington

Biography

2025
  • Named to 2025 CSC Academic All-District Football Team
  • Selected to All-MAC Academic Team for second time
  • Started all 12 games during redshirt sophomore season.
  • First full season as a starter on the defensive line.
  • Finished 2025 with 32 tackles, five tackles for loss and one sack.
  • Had at least 0.5 tackles for loss in first three games of the season.
  • Against Miami (10-4), had five tackles (all solo) and one tackle for loss.
  • Had a career game against Ball State, setting a personal best seven tackles with six solo and a sack.
  • Recorded four stops and 0.5 tackles for loss in final game of season vs. Kent State (11-28).
2024
• Saw action in all 13 games this season as a back-up defensive tackle.
• Finished his redshirt freshman season with six tackles and 1.5 tackles for loss. 
• Recorded a season-high two tackles in the season opener versus Western Illinois with a tackle for loss.  
• Logged a solo tackle versus UMass (10/5) and versus Fresno State in the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl (12/23).
• Recorded one assisted tackle and was in on a tackle for loss at Ball State (10/26).
• Qualified for the Academic All- MAC honor.

2023
• Did not see any game action during a redshirt season
• Named the Defensive Futures Team Player of the Year

HIGH SCHOOL
Honors and Awards
  • Two-time all-county selection (2021, 2022)
  • First team All Gateway Conference (2022)
  • Second team all-conference as a junior (2021)
  • Served as team captain as a senior
  • Nominated for Franklin County Athlete of the Week multiple times
  • Three-year letterwinner
Individual Stats 
  • 2022: Led St. Louis area schools in sacks
Team Results/Record
  • 2022: 5-5, qualified for playoffs
  • 2021: 6-4, lost in second round of districts
  • 2020: 9-2, lost in District Championship
Academics & Club/Sport Involvement
  • Intends to major in human biology/pre-med with aspiration to become a physician
  • Two-year member of the National Honor Society
  • Three-year letterwinner in basketball who earned second team All-County honors

PERSONAL
• A biological sciences major.

Statistics

Season:
2025

Season Statistics

Season Statistics

No statistics available for this season.

Career Statistics

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Historical Player Information

  • 2022-23Freshman

    Defensive Line
    6'4" 265 lbs
  • 57

    2023Freshman

    Defensive Tackle
    6'3" 272 lbs
    57
  • 57

    2024Redshirt Freshman

    Defensive Tackle
    6'3" 285 lbs
    57
  • 10

    2025Redshirt Sophomore

    Defensive Tackle
    6'3" 290 lbs
    10