Ashton Woods holds the WLB · Backup spot in West Virginia Mountaineers’s linebacker room. Where he sits among the room’s front-line roles:

Ashton Woods is a 6'3", 230-pound linebacker from Marietta, Georgia, who transferred to West Virginia from North Carolina. A three-year varsity letterwinner at Walton High School, Woods accumulated 383 career tackles, including 15 sacks and 36 tackles for loss. As a senior, he recorded 151 tackles, eight sacks, and 20 tackles for loss while helping Walton to a 14-1 record and region championship. In 2025, Woods appeared in six games before sustaining a season-ending injury, posting 15 total tackles across 176 plays and earning Academic All-Big 12 First-Team honors.

North Carolinathrough 2024

West Virginia2025 — present