Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2009 Regular Season
East Carolina paired 22 primary output with 35.4 efficiency.
Player Stats
Darnel Ballard College Stats
Career production, season-by-season totals, and the selected-season workbench are grouped here for stat-first searches.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Scrimmage yards
- 20
- Rushing yards
- 2
- Receiving yards
- 18
- Touchdowns
- 1
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Scrimmage | Rush Yds | Rec Yds | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 Regular Season | East Carolina | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 35 |
| 2008 Regular Season | East Carolina | 1 | -2 | -2 | 0 | 0 | 23.6 |
| 2009 Regular Season | East Carolina | 2 | 22 | 4 | 18 | 1 | 48.6 |
Player insights
Supporting note
2009 Regular Season role shape
backfield-heavy usage with 35.4 efficiency.
Supporting note
Career value is trending up
2009 Regular Season improved on the prior stop by season value score.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: Rice
Win with 22 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.
Analysis workspace
Season Workbench
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Season Explorer
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2009 Regular Season · East Carolina
Games
2
Scrimmage Yards / G
11
Efficiency
35.4
Usage
3.1
Consistency
50
Best Game by takeover score
Rice
Not enough games exist for the full explorer. The summary cards stay available so the season still reads clearly.
Active game
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. SMU: 0. Rice: 22
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.
Scatter view is hidden because this season does not have enough game-to-game variety yet.
Split Comparison
Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.
Wins22 · Games = 1 · +22 vs Losses
Losses0 · Games = 1 · -22 vs Wins
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