Aidan Butts holds the DE · Starter spot in Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders’s edge room. Where he sits among the room’s front-line roles:

Aidan Butts is a 6'3", 244-pound defensive end for Middle Tennessee from Toccoa, Georgia. A three-star recruit in the 2024 class, he played in 10 games as a freshman and recorded 10 tackles, two sacks, and two pass breakups across 191 snaps. In 2025, Butts appeared in nine games while dealing with injury, accumulating four tackles and one hurry on 201 snaps, including 122 on special teams. He now enters his junior year as a returning starter for the Blue Raiders.

Middle Tennessee2024 — present