Dylan Cardwell (born December 16, 2001) is an American professional basketball player for the Sacramento Kings of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Auburn Tigers.
Cardwell attended Oak Hill Academy up to his junior season before transferring to McEachern High School for his senior year. As a junior he averaged 3.8 points and 3.8 rebounds per game. Coming out of high school, Cardwell was rated as a three-star recruit and committed to play college basketball for the Auburn Tigers over other schools such as Georgia, Tennessee, Miami, Maryland and UConn.
As a freshman in 2020âÂÂ21, Cardwell appeared in 27 games where he averaged 3.8 points and 3.6 rebounds in 15.2 minutes per game. On January 11, 2022, he tallied six points, six rebounds and four blocks in a win over rival Alabama. During the 2021âÂÂ22 season, Cardwell appeared in all 34 games and averaged three points and three rebounds. In the first two games of the 2022âÂÂ23 season, he put up nine points and ten blocks. In the 2022âÂÂ23 season, Cardwell averaged 3.7 points and 3.8 rebounds in 32 appearances. In 2023âÂÂ24, he averaged 5.3 points, 1.6 blocks and 1.2 assists in 14.7 minutes per game. Heading into the 2024âÂÂ25 season, Cardwell become a full-time starter for the first time. On December 30, 2024, he posted 12 points, 11 rebounds, two blocks and a steal in a win over Monmouth. On March 1, 2025, Cardwell become the all-time winningest player in Auburn menâÂÂs basketball history, with 115 wins after he helped the Tigers to a 94âÂÂ78 win over Kentucky.
On June 26, 2025 after being undrafted in the 2025 NBA draft, Cardwell signed a two-way contract with the Sacramento Kings.
On February 6, 2026, the Kings signed Cardwell to a four-year standard contract after trading Dennis Schroder, Keon Ellis and Dario à  ariàas part of a three-team deal that brought De'Andre Hunter to Sacramento. At the time of the signing, Cardwell was leading his rookie class in blocks per game, and he began to lead all rookies in rebounds per game the same month.
|- | style="text-align:left;"| 2020âÂÂ21 | style="text-align:left;"| Auburn | 27 || 1 || 15.1 || .705 || 1.000 || .571 || 3.6 || .5 || .4 || .6 || 3.8 |- | style="text-align:left;"| 2021âÂÂ22 | style="text-align:left;"| Auburn | 34 || 0 || 11.5 || .690 || .000 || .400 || 3.0 || .5 || .5 || 1.2 || 3.0 |- | style="text-align:left;"| 2022âÂÂ23 | style="text-align:left;"| Auburn | 32 || 1 || 13.4 || .747 || .000 || .318 || 3.8 || 1.1 || .3 || 1.3 || 3.7 |- | style="text-align:left;"| 2023âÂÂ24 | style="text-align:left;"| Auburn | 35 || 1 || 14.5 || .709 || .400 || .587 || 3.7 || 1.2 || .6 || 1.6 || 5.3 |- | style="text-align:left;"| 2024âÂÂ25 | style="text-align:left;"| Auburn | 38 || 38 || 20.3 || .700 || .500 || .324 || 5.1 || 1.6 || .8 || 1.4 || 5.0 |- class="sortbottom" | style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"| Career | 166 || 41 || 15.1 || .709 || .400 || .450 || 3.9 || 1.2 || .6 || 1.3 || 4.2