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Featured defensive role
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Player Dossier
2017-2020Purdue
Derrick Barnes
LB • 6'1" • 245 lbs • Covington, KY, USA
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Derrick Barnes shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 51.9 disruption score.
Impact Production
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Top-tier box-score impact for a linebacker
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Reliability
89
Regular contributor with several takeover games
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Star Power
89
Elite ceiling indicators
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Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2019 Regular Season · Purdue
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 1
- Unique Seasons
- 4
- Program Path
- Purdue
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Indiana
Player Story
Derrick Barnes built his college career from 2017 through 2020 as a linebacker from Covington, KY wearing No. 55, spending time with Purdue. The clearest part of Derrick Barnes' career was his defensive production:...
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- Committed To
- Purdue
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2017
NFL Draft
- Draft Year
- 2021
- Selection
- Round 4 · Pick 8
- Overall
- No. 113
- NFL Team
- Detroit Lions
Derrick Barnes, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2019 Regular Season · Purdue. Derrick Barnes shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 51.9 disruption score.
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Derrick Barnes quick answers
- Latest team and position
- Purdue · LB
- Career Tackles
- 206
- Tracked sample
- 4 unique seasons · 4 entries · 37 games
- Best season
- 2019 Regular Season · Purdue
- Top game
- Indiana
- Recruit profile
- 2-star · Holy Cross · Purdue
- High school pipeline
- Malcolm X Shabazz · 5 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
- NFL Draft
- 2021 · Round 4 · Pick 8 · Detroit Lions
- Latest roster
- No. 55 · Senior
- 2020 Tackles rank
- 54 tackles · LB 153rd (top 14%) · Big Ten 16th (top 3%) · National 241st (top 5%)
Derrick Barnes played LB for Purdue. Across 4 tracked seasons, Derrick Barnes recorded 206 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2018 with Purdue.
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