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Player Dossier
2005-2008Penn State
Derrick Williams
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Impact contributor
Derrick Williams shows a productive multi-phase profile across the tracked sample.
Impact Production
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Reliability
13
Sporadic game-to-game production
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Star Power
65
Useful peak profile
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Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2008 Regular Season · Penn State
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 1
- Unique Seasons
- 4
- Program Path
- Penn State
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Minnesota
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- Committed To
- Penn State
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2005
NFL Draft
- Draft Year
- 2009
- Selection
- Round 3 · Pick 18
- Overall
- No. 82
- NFL Team
- Detroit Lions
Derrick Williams, player. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2008 Regular Season · Penn State. Derrick Williams shows a productive multi-phase profile across the tracked sample.
Quick Answers
Derrick Williams quick answers
- Latest team and position
- Penn State · Position unavailable
- Career Touchdowns
- 0
- Tracked sample
- 4 unique seasons · 4 entries · 46 games
- Best season
- 2008 Regular Season · Penn State
- Top game
- Minnesota
- Recruit profile
- 5-star · Eleanor Roosevelt · Penn State
- High school pipeline
- Eleanor Roosevelt · 15 FBS recruits · 2 drafted players
- NFL Draft
- 2009 · Round 3 · Pick 18 · Detroit Lions
- Latest roster
- Class 2008
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | TD | Primary | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 Regular Season | Penn State | 7 | 0 | 4 | 35.7 |
| 2006 Regular Season | Penn State | 13 | 0 | 2 | 16.8 |
| 2007 Regular Season | Penn State | 13 | 0 | 4 | 32.4 |
| 2008 Regular Season | Penn State | 13 | 0 | 7 | 56.4 |
Related Context
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Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2008 Regular Season
Penn State paired 7 primary output with — efficiency.
Supporting note
2008 Regular Season role shape
impact-led usage with — efficiency.
Supporting note
Career value is trending up
2008 Regular Season improved on the prior stop by season value score.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: Indiana
Win with a strong all-around stat line. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.
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2008 Regular Season · Penn State
Games
13
Primary Metric / G
0.5
Efficiency
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Usage
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Consistency
12.8
Best Game by takeover score
Indiana
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. USC: 1. Coastal Carolina: 0. Oregon State: 0. Syracuse: 0. Temple: 0. Illinois: 2. Purdue: 0. Wisconsin: 0. Michigan: 0. Ohio State: 0. Iowa: 1. Indiana: 2. Michigan State: 1
Volume vs Efficiency
Each dot is a game. Farther right means the player carried more of the workload, and higher means they were more efficient with those chances.
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Split Comparison
Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.
Wins0.5 · Games = 11 · -0.5 vs Losses
Losses1 · Games = 2 · +0.5 vs Wins
Game Log
Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.
13 games
Featured metric
Touchdowns
Top game by takeover score
Indiana
Best efficiency game
— vs USC
| Result | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thu 1/1 | @ USC | L 24-38 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 4 | 17 | 4.30 | 0 | 14 |
| Sat 11/22 | vs Michigan State | W 49-18 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 3 | 10 | 3.30 | 0 | 5 |
| Sat 11/15 | vs Indiana | W 34-7 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 4 | 61 | 15.30 | 1 | 36 |
| Sat 11/8 | @ Iowa | L 23-24 | 1 | 1 | 23 | 100.0 | 0 | 0 | — | 12 | 53 | 4.40 | 1 | 11 |
| Sun 10/26 | @ Ohio State | W 13-6 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 3 | 17 | 5.70 | 0 | 14 |
| Sat 10/18 | vs Michigan | W 46-17 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Sun 10/12 | @ Wisconsin | W 48-7 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Sat 10/4 | @ Purdue | W 20-6 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 4 | 7 | 1.80 | 0 | 5 |
| Sun 9/28 | vs Illinois | W 38-24 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 6 | 33 | 5.50 | 1 | 8 |
| Sat 9/20 | vs Temple | W 45-3 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 2 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 9 |
| Sat 9/13 | @ Syracuse | W 55-13 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | 14 | 14 | 0 | 14 |
| Sat 9/6 | vs Oregon State | W 45-14 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | — | 2 | 12 | 6 | 0 | 15 |
| Sat 8/30 | vs Coastal Carolina | W 66-10 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 2 | 11 | 5.50 | 0 | 7 |
Career Arc
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Penn State
2005-2008
Opening stop
Season Value Progression
2005200620072008
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
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| 2005 Regular Season | Penn State | 4 | — | — | — |
| 2006 Regular Season | Penn State | 2 | — | — | -2 |
| 2007 Regular Season | Penn State | 4 | — | — | 2 |
| 2008 Regular Season | Penn State | 7 | — | — | 3 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
vs Minnesota
Week 5 · W 44-14 · Conference game
Win with a strong all-around stat line.
2
Touchdowns
100 takeover
2 primary-metric impact.
#2
vs Youngstown State
Week 3 · W 37-3
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Touchdowns
100 takeover
Win with a strong all-around stat line.
1 primary-metric impact.
#3
vs Akron
Week 1 · W 34-16
1
Touchdowns
100 takeover
Win with a strong all-around stat line.
1 primary-metric impact.
#4
vs Purdue
Week 10 · W 26-19 · Conference game
2
Touchdowns
100 takeover
Win with a strong all-around stat line.
2 primary-metric impact.
#5
vs Indiana
Week 12 · W 34-7 · Conference game
2
Touchdowns
100 takeover
Win with a strong all-around stat line.
2 primary-metric impact.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2008 Regular Season · Penn State
7 primary output · — efficiency · — usage
56.4
#2
2005 Regular Season · Penn State
35.7
4 primary · — efficiency · — usage
#3
2007 Regular Season · Penn State
32.4
4 primary · — efficiency · — usage
Milestones
6
Impact games
0
Splash games
0
10+ tackle games
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