Usage / Role
25%
Rotational defensive role
lowfeatured
Player Dossier
2019-2024Mississippi State
De'Monte Russell
DL • 6'4" • 285 lbs • Jackson, MS, USA
Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile
De'Monte Russell shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 14 disruption score.
Impact Production
39
Developing production for a defensive lineman
lowelite
Reliability
23
Sporadic game-to-game production
lowhigh
Star Power
70
Useful peak profile
limitedstar
Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2021 Postseason · Mississippi State
1920212122222324
Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 1
- Unique Seasons
- 6
- Program Path
- Mississippi State
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Southern Miss
Player Story
De'Monte Russell built his college career from 2019 through 2024 as a defensive lineman from Jackson, MS wearing No. 9, spending time with Mississippi State. The clearest part of De'Monte Russell's career was his...
Read the story4★
- Committed To
- Mississippi State
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2019
De'Monte Russell, DL. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2021 Postseason · Mississippi State. De'Monte Russell shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 14 disruption score.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Tackles
- 73
- TFL
- 7.5
- Sacks
- 2
- QB hurries
- 8
- Passes defended
- 1
Quick Answers
De'Monte Russell quick answers
- Latest team and position
- Mississippi State · DL
- Career Tackles
- 73
- Tracked sample
- 6 unique seasons · 8 entries · 37 games
- Best season
- 2021 Postseason · Mississippi State
- Top game
- Southern Miss
- Recruit profile
- 4-star · Provine · Mississippi State
- High school pipeline
- Provine · 5 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
- Latest roster
- No. 9 · Senior
- 2024 Tackles rank
- 23 tackles · DL 274th (top 27%) · SEC 221st (top 30%) · National 1,779th (top 30%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Tackles | TFL | Sacks | QB Hur | PD | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 Regular Season | Mississippi State | 1 | 1 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | 37 |
| 2020 Regular Season | Mississippi State | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | - |
| 2021 Postseason | Mississippi State | 8 | 1 | 1 | 0 | - | - | 0 | 43.2 |
| 2021 Regular Season | Mississippi State | 8 | 12 | 1.5 | 0 | 2 | - | 0 | 43.2 |
| 2022 Postseason | Mississippi State | 9 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 0 | 35 |
| 2022 Regular Season | Mississippi State | 9 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 2 | - | 0 | 35 |
| 2023 Regular Season | Mississippi State | 10 | 24 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 39.8 |
| 2024 Regular Season | Mississippi State | 9 | 23 | 1 | 0 | 2 | - | 0 | 26.9 |
Related Context
Keep exploring De'Monte Russell
De'Monte Russell played DL for Mississippi State. Across 6 tracked seasons, De'Monte Russell recorded 73 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2023 with Mississippi State.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2021 Postseason
Mississippi State paired 4.5 primary output with 12.4 efficiency.
Supporting note
2023 Regular Season role shape
impact-led usage with 16 efficiency.
Supporting note
Career value cooled off
2024 Regular Season fell back from the prior stop by season value score.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: Southern Miss
Win with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.
Analysis workspace
Season Workbench
Filter the strongest season sample, inspect game-level shape, and then drop into the full log without losing the story of the year.
Season Explorer
Understand the selected season before dropping into the full game log.
2023 Regular Season · Mississippi State
Games
10
Havoc Plays / G
0.6
Efficiency
16
Usage
4
Consistency
10
Best Game by takeover score
Southern Miss
Hover a point or expand a game row to keep the active game context visible here.
Active game
Hover over a point
Hover or select a game to keep its context visible here without the page shifting around.
Game-by-Game Trend
Follow how the selected stat changes from one game to the next. Spikes mark standout outings, while dips show quieter weeks.
Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. SE Louisiana: 0. Arizona: 0. LSU: 2. South Carolina: 0. Arkansas: 0. Auburn: 0. Kentucky: 0. Texas A&M: 1. Southern Miss: 3. Ole Miss: 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.
Low volumeHigh quality
High volumeHigh quality
Low volumeLower quality
High volumeLower quality
Volume on the x-axis, quality on the y-axis.
Volume versus efficiency scatter chart. SE Louisiana: 7 by 29.2. Arizona: 3 by 12.5. LSU: 4 by 36.7. South Carolina: 1 by 4.2. Arkansas: 1 by 4.2. Auburn: 1 by 4.2. Kentucky: 1 by 4.2. Texas A&M: 0 by 10. Southern Miss: 5 by 50.8. Ole Miss: 1 by 4.2
Split Comparison
Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.
Wins0.8 · Games = 4 · +0.3 vs Losses
Losses0.5 · Games = 6 · -0.3 vs Wins
Game Log
Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.
10 games
Featured metric
Havoc Plays
Top game by takeover score
Southern Miss
Best efficiency game
50.8 vs Southern Miss
| Result | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fri 11/24 | vs Ole Miss | L 7-17 | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 11/18 | vs Southern MissSplash game | W 41-20 | 5 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sun 11/12 | @ Texas A&M | L 10-51 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 1 | — | — |
| Sat 11/4 | vs Kentucky | L 3-24 | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 10/28 | @ Auburn | L 13-27 | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 10/21 | @ Arkansas | W 7-3 | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 9/23 | @ South Carolina | L 30-37 | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 9/16 | vs LSUSplash game | L 14-41 | 4 | 1 | — | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 9/9 | vs Arizona | W 31-24 | 3 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 9/2 | vs SE Louisiana | W 48-7 | 7 | 2 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
Player Story
De'Monte Russell story
De'Monte Russell built his college career from 2019 through 2024 as a defensive lineman from Jackson, MS wearing No. 9, spending time with Mississippi State. The clearest part of De'Monte Russell's career was his defensive production: 73 tackles, 7.5 tackles for loss, 2 sacks, and 1 pass defended across 37 career games in the available record. That gives De'Monte Russell's career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.
Career Arc
Track team changes, role shifts, and season-to-season movement.
- 1
Mississippi State
2019-2024
Opening stop
Season Value Progression
20192020202120212022202220232024
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 Regular Season | Mississippi State | 0 | 4.2 | 0.8 | — |
| 2020 Regular Season | Mississippi State | 0 | — | — | 0 |
| 2021 Postseason | Mississippi State | 4.5 | 12.4 | 4.7 | 4.5 |
| 2021 Regular Season | Mississippi State | 4.5 | 12.4 | 4.7 | 0 |
| 2022 Postseason | Mississippi State | 5 | 11.1 | 3.7 | 0.5 |
| 2022 Regular Season | Mississippi State | 5 | 11.1 | 3.7 | 0 |
| 2023 Regular Season | Mississippi State | 6 | 16 | 4 | 1 |
| 2024 Regular Season | Mississippi State | 3 | 14 | 3.9 | -3 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
vs Southern Miss
Week 12 · W 41-20
Win with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
3
Havoc Plays
83.6 takeover
3 disruption/tackle impact with 83.6 takeover score.
#2
@ Ole Miss
Week 14 · L 14-26 · Conference game
1.5
Havoc Plays
75.6 takeover
Loss with 1.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1.5 disruption/tackle impact with 75.6 takeover score.
#3
@ Illinois
Week 1 · W 19-10 · Postseason
2
Havoc Plays
74.7 takeover
Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
2 disruption/tackle impact with 74.7 takeover score.
#4
vs LSU
Week 3 · L 14-41 · Conference game
2
Havoc Plays
67.8 takeover
Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
2 disruption/tackle impact with 67.8 takeover score.
#5
vs Tennessee State
Week 12 · W 55-10
1.5
Havoc Plays
66.7 takeover
Win with 1.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1.5 disruption/tackle impact with 66.7 takeover score.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2021 Postseason · Mississippi State
4.5 primary output · 12.4 efficiency · 4.7 usage
43.2
#2
2021 Regular Season · Mississippi State
43.2
4.5 primary · 12.4 efficiency · 4.7 usage
#3
2023 Regular Season · Mississippi State
39.8
6 primary · 16 efficiency · 4 usage
Milestones
7
Impact games
4
Splash games
0
10+ tackle games
Next best actions
Keep exploring De'Monte Russell
Move from the player story into the game log, career arc, team context, and video shelf.