Brion Carnes

Brion Lawrenz Carnes (born May 27, 1991) is an American football quarterback who plays for the Nebraska Cornhuskers. In the 2010 recruiting class, Carnes was ranked the No. 7 dual-threat quarterback by Rivals.com. He is a second cousin of legendary Nebraska quarterback Tommie Frazier.

High School
Carnes played his senior year of high school football at Manatee High School in Bradenton, Florida. At Manatee, he completed 447-of-812 passing attempts for over 6,386 yards, including almost 50 touchdowns, and rushed for over 1,100 yards and 23 touchdowns. Carnes led Manatee to its first state championship game in over 16 years with a 13-2 season while completing 186-of-305 passes for 2,697 yards with 26 touchdowns and nine interceptions. The mobile quarterback also ran 121 times for 422 yards with 12 touchdowns and had a longest run of 59 yards. Carnes had some remarkable single game performances his senior year such as the game on September 11, 2009 at Palmetto High School where his Manatee Hurricanes won, 35-3. Carnes went 15-for-23 passing for 226 yards with four rushing and passing touchdowns. He also had big passing performances against Bay Shore High School on September 4 and Tampa Plant High School on December 18 with 250 and 264 yards passing respectively. The game versus Bay Shore High was Carnes' best game scoring wise as he had five touchdown passes and a rushing touchdown. He registered five contests where he passed for 226 yards or more. His best rushing performance that season came off eight rushes for 84 yards with 108 yards passing against Sarasota High School on October 9 in a 35-20 win on the road.

College career
Carnes signed with Nebraska on February 3, 2010, over Western Kentucky University.

2010
During the 2010 season, Carnes was redshirted.

2011
In the spring game on April 16, Carnes threw 15 passes, completing 11 for 173 yards, of which two were for touchdowns, including a long 49-yard completion.

For the fall of 2011, Nebraska's season kicked off on September 3 as the Huskers played UT- Chattanooga in Lincoln, Nebraska. The Cornhuskers won the contest, 40-7, and Carnes was 1-for-1 passing the ball for 19 yards to wide receiver Jamal Turner. Carnes also rushed twice for a negative six yards while playing in relief of the team's starting quarterback, Taylor Martinez, midway through the fourth quarter.

Carnes was the second-string quarterback for the Huskers and got in two more games as Nebraska finished the regular season at 9-3, ranked #19 nationally in the AP Top 25 College Football Poll. On September 24 in a 38-14 road win against Wyoming, Carnes directed the Cornhuskers' final drive of the game that included some option trickery as the redshirt freshman made a perfect pitch to reserve running back Austin Jones on a play that covered 22 yards.

On October 22, Carnes played in Nebraska's 41-14 win at Minnesota as the Golden Gophers fell behind, 30-0, at the half. The Husker signal caller went 1-for-1 passing the ball for 7 yards in the contest.

Carnes' accumulative stats for the regular season had him completing 2-of-2 passing attempts for 26 yards while rushing twice for a negative six yards in limited playing time.