Player Dossier

2020-2025

Prairie View A&M

Darrell Starling

LB • 6'0" • 218 lbs • Pelham, GA, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Darrell Starling shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 55.8 disruption score.

Usage / Role

Role sample still building

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Impact Production

56

Solid production for a linebacker

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Reliability

100

Regular contributor with several takeover games

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Star Power

62

Useful peak profile

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Prairie View A&M

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Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Unique Seasons
6
Program Path
Troy • Prairie View A&M
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Texas State

Player Story

Darrell Starling built his college career from 2020 through 2025 as a linebacker from Pelham, GA wearing No. 25, spending time with Prairie View A&M and Troy. The clearest part of Darrell Starling's career was his...

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Darrell Starling, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Prairie View A&M. Darrell Starling shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 55.8 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
36
TFL
4
Sacks
1
Passes defended
2
Touchdowns
1

Quick Answers

Darrell Starling quick answers

Latest team and position
Prairie View A&M · LB
Career Tackles
36
Tracked sample
6 unique seasons · 6 entries · 18 games
Best season
2025 Regular Season · Prairie View A&M
Top game
Texas State
High school pipeline
Pelham · 4 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 25 · Senior

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2020 Regular SeasonTroy61210-1137.9
2021 Regular SeasonTroy3910-1057
2022 Regular SeasonTroy22-0--036.8
2023 Regular SeasonTroy1210--051.5
2024 Regular SeasonTroy51111--038.6
2025 Regular SeasonPrairie View A&M10-0--068.6

Related Context

Darrell Starling played LB for Troy and Prairie View A&M. Across 6 tracked seasons, Darrell Starling recorded 36 tackles and 1 touchdowns. His top tracked season came in 2020 with Troy.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season

Prairie View A&M paired 1 primary output with 55.8 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 55.8 efficiency.

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Career value is trending up

2025 Regular Season improved on the prior stop by season value score.

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Multi-stop career journey

Production spans 2 team stops, with role shifts visible across Troy, Prairie View A&M.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Rice

Game with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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2025 Regular Season · Prairie View A&M

Games

1

Havoc Plays / G

1

Efficiency

55.8

Usage

Consistency

100

Best Game by takeover score

Rice

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All Games1 · Games = 1

Game Log

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1 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Rice

Best efficiency game

55.8 vs Rice

Result
Sat 9/13@ Rice10+ tackles114100

Player Story

Darrell Starling story

Darrell Starling built his college career from 2020 through 2025 as a linebacker from Pelham, GA wearing No. 25, spending time with Prairie View A&M and Troy. The clearest part of Darrell Starling's career was his defensive production: 36 tackles, 4 tackles for loss, 1 sack, and 2 passes defended across 18 career games in the available record. That gives Darrell Starling'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. 1

    Troy

    2020-2024

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    Prairie View A&M

    2025

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

202020212022202320242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2020 Regular SeasonTroy211.73.5
2021 Regular SeasonTroy219.25.20
2022 Regular SeasonTroy04.20.8-2
2023 Regular SeasonTroy118.34.51
2024 Regular SeasonTroy213.24.11
2025 Regular SeasonPrairie View A&M155.8-1

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs Texas State

Week 6 · L 17-38 · Conference game

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2

Havoc Plays

81.7 takeover

2 disruption/tackle impact with 81.7 takeover score.

#2

@ No. 120 Rice

Week 3

1

Havoc Plays

77.9 takeover

Game with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 77.9 takeover score.

#3

vs Southern

Week 1 · W 55-3

1

Havoc Plays

75.6 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 75.6 takeover score.

#4

@ App State

Week 13 · L 10-47 · Conference game

1

Havoc Plays

71.4 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 71.4 takeover score.

#5

vs Arkansas State

Week 6 · W 37-3 · Conference game

1

Havoc Plays

51.9 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 51.9 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2025 Regular Season · Prairie View A&M

1 primary output · 55.8 efficiency · usage

68.6

#2

2021 Regular Season · Troy

57

2 primary · 19.2 efficiency · 5.2 usage

#3

2023 Regular Season · Troy

51.5

1 primary · 18.3 efficiency · 4.5 usage

Milestones

4

Impact games

1

Splash games

1

10+ tackle games