Player Dossier

2009-2010

Cincinnati

Darrin Williams

RB • 5'7" • Detroit, MI, USA

Balanced backfield optionSteady chain mover

Darrin Williams leans balanced backfield option traits and 53.7 efficiency.

Usage / Role

7%

Rotational offensive role

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Impact Production

29

Developing production for a back

lowelite

Reliability

29

Sporadic game-to-game production

lowhigh

Star Power

36

Limited ceiling signals so far

limitedstar

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2010 Regular Season · Cincinnati

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
2
Program Path
Cincinnati
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Indiana State

Player Story

Darrin Williams built his college career from 2009 through 2010 as a running back from Detroit, MI wearing No. 10, spending time with Cincinnati. The clearest part of Darrin Williams' career was his return-game role:...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2008 · Rating 0.8256

Martin Luther King · Detroit, MI

Committed To
Cincinnati
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2008

Darrin Williams, RB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2010 Regular Season · Cincinnati. Darrin Williams leans balanced backfield option traits and 53.7 efficiency.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Scrimmage yards
195
Rushing yards
176
Receiving yards
19
Touchdowns
1

Quick Answers

Darrin Williams quick answers

Latest team and position
Cincinnati · RB
Career Scrimmage Yards
195
Tracked sample
2 unique seasons · 3 entries · 12 games
Best season
2010 Regular Season · Cincinnati
Top game
Indiana State
Recruit profile
3-star · Martin Luther King · Cincinnati
High school pipeline
Martin Luther King · 40 FBS recruits · 5 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 10 · Class 2010
2010 Scrimmage yards rank
149 scrimmage yards · RB 285th (top 63%) · Big East 60th (top 46%) · National 1,009th (top 48%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesScrimmageRush YdsRec YdsTDOverall
2009 PostseasonCincinnati8-5-50025.9
2009 Regular SeasonCincinnati8513714125.9
2010 Regular SeasonCincinnati41491445051.1

Related Context

Darrin Williams played RB for Cincinnati. Across 2 tracked seasons, Darrin Williams recorded 176 rushing yards, 19 receiving yards, and 1 touchdowns. His top tracked season came in 2010 with Cincinnati.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2010 Regular Season

Cincinnati paired 149 primary output with 53.7 efficiency.

Supporting note

2010 Regular Season role shape

backfield-heavy usage with 53.7 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value is trending up

2010 Regular Season improved on the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Indiana State

Win with 117 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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2010 Regular Season · Cincinnati

Games

4

Scrimmage Yards / G

37.3

Efficiency

53.7

Usage

9.9

Consistency

22.7

Best Game by takeover score

Indiana State

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Fresno State: 3. Indiana State: 117. NC State: 29. Oklahoma: 0

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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Volume on the x-axis, quality on the y-axis.

Volume versus efficiency scatter chart. Fresno State: 1 by 31.3. Indiana State: 13 by 87.5. NC State: 7 by 42.3

Split Comparison

Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.

Wins117 · Games = 1 · +106.3 vs Losses
Losses10.7 · Games = 3 · -106.3 vs Wins

Game Log

Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.

4 games

Featured metric

Scrimmage Yards

Top game by takeover score

Indiana State

Best efficiency game

87.5 vs Indiana State

Result
Sat 9/25vs OklahomaL 29-31
Thu 9/16@ NC StateL 19-3062440154.1
Sat 9/11vs Indiana State100 rush yardsW 40-713117909
Sun 9/5@ Fresno StateL 14-2813303

Player Story

Darrin Williams story

Darrin Williams built his college career from 2009 through 2010 as a running back from Detroit, MI wearing No. 10, spending time with Cincinnati. The clearest part of Darrin Williams' career was his return-game role: 378 return yards and 1 return touchdown across 12 career games in the available record. His largest box-score season came in 2009 with Cincinnati. Those numbers show where he fit, how often the ball or action found him, and how his role developed over time.

The value of the career arc is that it connects production to role, not just a name on a roster. His career also includes 176 rushing yards and 19 receiving yards, giving the story more than a single-category snapshot. With 12 career games in the available record, his career has enough shape to show both opportunity and production across Cincinnati.

The arc is straightforward: Darrin Williams moved through the depth chart, found a larger role, and turned that opportunity into production that can be understood through standard football numbers.

Career Arc

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    Cincinnati

    2009-2010

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

200920092010
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2009 PostseasonCincinnati4625.83.4
2009 Regular SeasonCincinnati4625.83.40
2010 Regular SeasonCincinnati14953.79.9103

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs Indiana State

Week 2 · W 40-7

Win with 117 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

117

Scrimmage Yards

85 takeover

117 scrimmage yards and 23.6 usage.

#2

vs Southeast Missouri State

Week 2 · W 70-3

21

Scrimmage Yards

55.2 takeover

Win with 21 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

21 scrimmage yards and 7.6 usage.

#3

vs Louisville

Week 8 · W 41-10 · Conference game

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Scrimmage Yards

48.9 takeover

Win with 17 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

17 scrimmage yards and 7.5 usage.

#4

@ NC State

Week 3 · L 19-30

29

Scrimmage Yards

35.7 takeover

Loss with 29 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

29 scrimmage yards and 14 usage.

#5

vs Illinois

Week 13 · W 49-36

5

Scrimmage Yards

24 takeover

Win with 5 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

5 scrimmage yards and 2.3 usage.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2010 Regular Season · Cincinnati

149 primary output · 53.7 efficiency · 9.9 usage

51.1

#2

2009 Postseason · Cincinnati

25.9

46 primary · 25.8 efficiency · 3.4 usage

#3

2009 Regular Season · Cincinnati

25.9

46 primary · 25.8 efficiency · 3.4 usage

Milestones

1

100+ rush yards

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150+ scrimmage yards

0

2+ TD games