Player Dossier

2021-2025

Florida Atlantic

Damarius McGhee

DB • 6'0" • 175 lbs • Pensacola, FL, USA

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Damarius McGhee shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 16.5 disruption score.

Usage / Role

26%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

33

Developing production for a defensive back

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Reliability

33

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

48

Limited ceiling signals so far

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2021 Postseason · LSU

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Snapshot

Career Teams
3
Unique Seasons
5
Program Path
LSU • Kansas • Florida Atlantic
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Navy

Player Story

Damarius McGhee built his college career from 2021 through 2025 as a defensive back from Pensacola, FL, spending time with Florida Atlantic, Kansas, and LSU. The clearest part of Damarius McGhee's career was his...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2021 · Rating 0.9231

Pensacola Catholic · Pensacola, FL

Committed To
LSU
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2021

Damarius McGhee, DB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2021 Postseason · LSU. Damarius McGhee shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 16.5 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
44
Passes defended
4
Touchdowns
1

Quick Answers

Damarius McGhee quick answers

Latest team and position
Florida Atlantic · DB
Career Tackles
44
Tracked sample
5 unique seasons · 5 entries · 16 games
Best season
2021 Postseason · LSU
Top game
Navy
Recruit profile
4-star · Pensacola Catholic · LSU
High school pipeline
Pensacola Catholic · 23 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
Senior
2025 Tackles rank
30 tackles · DB 307th (top 32%) · American Athletic 142nd (top 23%) · National 1,373rd (top 23%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2021 PostseasonLSU15-0--050.5
2022 Regular SeasonLSU00-0--0-
2023 Regular SeasonKansas11-0--036.7
2024 Regular SeasonKansas48-0--040.6
2025 Regular SeasonFlorida Atlantic1030-0-4136.8

Related Context

Damarius McGhee played DB for LSU, Kansas, and Florida Atlantic. Across 5 tracked seasons, Damarius McGhee recorded 44 tackles and 1 touchdowns. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Florida Atlantic.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2021 Postseason

LSU paired 0 primary output with 20.8 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 16.5 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value stayed steady

2025 Regular Season tracked close to the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Multi-stop career journey

Production spans 3 team stops, with role shifts visible across LSU, Kansas, Florida Atlantic.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Navy

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

Analysis workspace

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2025 Regular Season · Florida Atlantic

Games

10

Havoc Plays / G

0.4

Efficiency

16.5

Usage

2.1

Consistency

13.3

Best Game by takeover score

Navy

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Maryland: 1. Florida A&M: 1. Memphis: 0. Rice: 0. UAB: 0. South Florida: 0. Navy: 1. Tulsa: 1. Tulane: 0. UConn: 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. Maryland: 1 by 14.2. Florida A&M: 1 by 14.2. Memphis: 3 by 12.5. Rice: 3 by 12.5. UAB: 3 by 12.5. South Florida: 2 by 8.3. Navy: 7 by 39.2. Tulsa: 5 by 30.8. Tulane: 4 by 16.7. UConn: 1 by 4.2

Split Comparison

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

Wins0.5 · Games = 4 · +0.2 vs Losses
Losses0.3 · Games = 6 · -0.2 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

Navy

Best efficiency game

39.2 vs Navy

Result
Sat 11/22vs UConnL 45-4810000
Sat 11/15@ TulaneL 24-3543000
Sat 11/8vs TulsaW 40-2155001
Sat 10/25@ NavyL 32-4274001
Sat 10/18@ South FloridaL 13-4822000
Sat 10/11vs UABW 53-3332000
Sat 10/4@ RiceW 27-2132000
Sat 9/27vs MemphisL 26-5532000
Sat 9/6vs Florida A&MW 56-1410001
Sat 8/30@ MarylandL 7-3911001

Player Story

Damarius McGhee story

Damarius McGhee built his college career from 2021 through 2025 as a defensive back from Pensacola, FL, spending time with Florida Atlantic, Kansas, and LSU. The clearest part of Damarius McGhee's career was his defensive production: 44 tackles and 4 passes defended across 16 career games in the available record. That gives Damarius McGhee'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

    LSU

    2021-2022

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    Kansas

    2023-2024

    Peak year stop

  3. 3

    Florida Atlantic

    2025

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

20212022202320242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2021 PostseasonLSU020.83.7
2022 Regular SeasonLSU00
2023 Regular SeasonKansas04.20.70
2024 Regular SeasonKansas08.41.60
2025 Regular SeasonFlorida Atlantic416.52.14

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ No. 46 Navy

Week 9 · L 32-42 · Conference game

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

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Havoc Plays

58.6 takeover

1 disruption/tackle impact with 58.6 takeover score.

#2

vs No. 104 Tulsa

Week 11 · W 40-21 · Conference game

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Havoc Plays

51.7 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 51.7 takeover score.

#3

@ No. 75 Maryland

Week 1 · L 7-39

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Havoc Plays

40.6 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 40.6 takeover score.

#4

vs Florida A&M

Week 2 · W 56-14

1

Havoc Plays

40.3 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 40.3 takeover score.

#5

@ Kansas State

Week 1 · L 20-42 · Postseason

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Havoc Plays

17.2 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 17.2 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2021 Postseason · LSU

0 primary output · 20.8 efficiency · 3.7 usage

50.5

#2

2024 Regular Season · Kansas

40.6

0 primary · 8.4 efficiency · 1.6 usage

#3

2025 Regular Season · Florida Atlantic

36.8

4 primary · 16.5 efficiency · 2.1 usage

Milestones

0

Impact games

0

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games