Player Dossier

2019-2023

Bowling Green

Darren Anders

LB • 6'0" • 225 lbs • North Olmsted, OH, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Darren Anders shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 40.3 disruption score.

Usage / Role

100%

Featured defensive role

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Impact Production

100

Top-tier box-score impact for a linebacker

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Reliability

95

Regular contributor with several takeover games

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Star Power

85

Elite ceiling indicators

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2021 Regular Season · Bowling Green

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
5
Program Path
Bowling Green
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Akron

Player Story

Darren Anders built his college career from 2019 through 2023 as a linebacker from North Olmsted, OH wearing No. 23, spending time with Bowling Green. The clearest part of Darren Anders' career was his defensive...

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Darren Anders, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2021 Regular Season · Bowling Green. Darren Anders shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 40.3 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
353
TFL
29
Sacks
10
QB hurries
4
Passes defended
9
Touchdowns
2

Quick Answers

Darren Anders quick answers

Latest team and position
Bowling Green · LB
Career Tackles
353
Tracked sample
5 unique seasons · 6 entries · 48 games
Best season
2021 Regular Season · Bowling Green
Top game
Akron
Latest roster
No. 23 · Senior
2023 Tackles rank
85 tackles · LB 81st (top 7%) · Mid-American 10th (top 2%) · National 111th (top 2%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2019 Regular SeasonBowling Green6202.51--031.9
2020 Regular SeasonBowling Green5554.50-1062.3
2021 Regular SeasonBowling Green121249.5312276.6
2022 Regular SeasonBowling Green126921.524034.5
2023 PostseasonBowling Green132-0--069.3
2023 Regular SeasonBowling Green138310.54.512069.3

Related Context

Darren Anders played LB for Bowling Green. Across 5 tracked seasons, Darren Anders recorded 353 tackles and 2 touchdowns. His top tracked season came in 2021 with Bowling Green.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2021 Regular Season

Bowling Green paired 16.5 primary output with 55.4 efficiency.

Supporting note

2020 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 54.3 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value stayed steady

2023 Regular Season tracked close to the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Ohio

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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2020 Regular Season · Bowling Green

Games

5

Havoc Plays / G

1.1

Efficiency

54.3

Usage

16.2

Consistency

64.4

Best Game by takeover score

Ohio

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Toledo: 1.5. Kent State: 0. Buffalo: 1.5. Ohio: 2. Akron: 0.5

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. Toledo: 11 by 60.8. Kent State: 9 by 37.5. Buffalo: 14 by 65. Ohio: 13 by 70. Akron: 8 by 38.3

Split Comparison

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

First Half1 · Games = 3 · -0.3 vs Second Half
Second Half1.3 · Games = 2 · +0.3 vs First Half

Game Log

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5 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Ohio

Best efficiency game

70 vs Ohio

Result
Sat 12/5@ AkronL 3-31840.5000
Sat 11/28@ Ohio10+ tackles · Splash gameL 10-52135101
Wed 11/18vs Buffalo10+ tacklesL 17-421461.5000
Wed 11/11vs Kent StateL 24-6294000
Thu 11/5@ Toledo10+ tacklesL 3-381161.5000

Player Story

Darren Anders story

Darren Anders built his college career from 2019 through 2023 as a linebacker from North Olmsted, OH wearing No. 23, spending time with Bowling Green. The clearest part of Darren Anders' career was his defensive production: 353 tackles, 29 tackles for loss, 10 sacks, and 1 interception across 48 career games in the available record. His career also includes 8 return yards, giving the story more than a single-category snapshot. That gives Darren Anders' career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.

Career Arc

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    Bowling Green

    2019-2023

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

201920202021202220232023
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2019 Regular SeasonBowling Green3.519.76.9
2020 Regular SeasonBowling Green5.554.316.22
2021 Regular SeasonBowling Green16.555.413.511
2022 Regular SeasonBowling Green9.531.95.1-7
2023 PostseasonBowling Green1840.313.68.5
2023 Regular SeasonBowling Green1840.313.60

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs Akron

Week 8 · W 41-14 · Conference game

Win with backfield disruption leading the way.

6

Havoc Plays

91.7 takeover

6 disruption/tackle impact with 91.7 takeover score.

#2

@ Ohio

Week 13 · L 10-52 · Conference game

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Havoc Plays

90 takeover

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 90 takeover score.

#3

vs Miami (OH)

Week 7 · W 17-13 · Conference game

4

Havoc Plays

89.7 takeover

Win with 4 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

4 disruption/tackle impact with 89.7 takeover score.

#4

vs South Alabama

Week 2 · L 19-22

3

Havoc Plays

87.8 takeover

Loss with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

3 disruption/tackle impact with 87.8 takeover score.

#5

vs Akron

Week 6 · L 20-35 · Conference game

2.5

Havoc Plays

83.3 takeover

Loss with 2.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2.5 disruption/tackle impact with 83.3 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2021 Regular Season · Bowling Green

16.5 primary output · 55.4 efficiency · 13.5 usage

76.6

#2

2023 Postseason · Bowling Green

69.3

18 primary · 40.3 efficiency · 13.6 usage

#3

2023 Regular Season · Bowling Green

69.3

18 primary · 40.3 efficiency · 13.6 usage

Milestones

17

Impact games

16

Splash games

13

10+ tackle games