Player Dossier

2020-2024

Miami

Daryl Porter Jr.

DB • 5'10" • 185 lbs • Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Daryl Porter Jr. shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 17.2 disruption score.

Usage / Role

47%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

44

Developing production for a defensive back

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Reliability

70

Reliable weekly contributor

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Star Power

39

Limited ceiling signals so far

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Miami

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Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Unique Seasons
5
Program Path
West Virginia • Miami
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Duke

Player Story

Daryl Porter Jr. built his college career from 2020 through 2024 as a defensive back from Fort Lauderdale, FL wearing No. 2, spending time with Miami and West Virginia. The clearest part of Daryl Porter Jr.'s career...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2026 · Rating 0.8889

Caravel Academy · Bear, DE

Committed To
Miami
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2026

Daryl Porter Jr., DB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Miami. Daryl Porter Jr. shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 17.2 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
106
TFL
3
QB hurries
3
Passes defended
17

Quick Answers

Daryl Porter Jr. quick answers

Latest team and position
Miami · DB
Career Tackles
106
Tracked sample
5 unique seasons · 7 entries · 38 games
Best season
2024 Regular Season · Miami
Top game
Duke
Recruit profile
3-star · Caravel Academy · Miami
High school pipeline
Caravel Academy · 3 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 2 · Senior
2024 Tackles rank
28 tackles · DB 358th (top 37%) · ACC 197th (top 26%) · National 1,512th (top 25%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2020 Regular SeasonWest Virginia00-0--0-
2021 PostseasonWest Virginia135-0--035.9
2021 Regular SeasonWest Virginia134110-5035.9
2022 Regular SeasonMiami61120-1021
2023 PostseasonMiami72-0-1038.7
2023 Regular SeasonMiami719-013038.7
2024 Regular SeasonMiami1228-027051.5

Related Context

Daryl Porter Jr. played DB for West Virginia and Miami. Across 5 tracked seasons, Daryl Porter Jr. recorded 106 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2021 with West Virginia.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2024 Regular Season

Miami paired 9 primary output with 17.2 efficiency.

Supporting note

2023 Postseason role shape

impact-led usage with 19.6 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value is trending up

2024 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 West Virginia, Miami.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Temple

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

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2023 Postseason · Miami

Games

7

Havoc Plays / G

0.7

Efficiency

19.6

Usage

3.2

Consistency

53.1

Best Game by takeover score

Temple

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Rutgers: 1. Texas A&M: 1. Temple: 2. North Carolina: 0. Clemson: 1. Virginia: 0. NC State: 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. Rutgers: 2 by 18.3. Texas A&M: 5 by 30.8. Temple: 3 by 32.5. North Carolina: 4 by 16.7. Clemson: 3 by 22.5. Virginia: 3 by 12.5. NC State: 1 by 4.2

Split Comparison

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

Wins1 · Games = 4 · +0.7 vs Losses
Losses0.3 · Games = 3 · -0.7 vs Wins

Game Log

Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.

7 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Temple

Best efficiency game

32.5 vs Temple

Result
Thu 12/28vs RutgersL 24-3122001
Sun 11/5@ NC StateL 6-2011000
Sat 10/28vs VirginiaW 29-2632000
Sun 10/22vs ClemsonW 28-2032001
Sat 10/14@ North CarolinaL 31-4143000
Sat 9/23@ TempleSplash gameW 41-732002
Sat 9/9vs Texas A&MW 48-3353000

Player Story

Daryl Porter Jr. story

Daryl Porter Jr. built his college career from 2020 through 2024 as a defensive back from Fort Lauderdale, FL wearing No. 2, spending time with Miami and West Virginia. The clearest part of Daryl Porter Jr.'s career was his defensive production: 106 tackles, 3 tackles for loss, 1 interception, and 17 passes defended across 38 career games in the available record. That gives Daryl Porter Jr.'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

    West Virginia

    2020-2021

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    Miami

    2022-2024

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

2020202120212022202320232024
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2020 Regular SeasonWest Virginia0
2021 PostseasonWest Virginia720.13.67
2021 Regular SeasonWest Virginia720.13.60
2022 Regular SeasonMiami312.73.2-4
2023 PostseasonMiami519.63.22
2023 Regular SeasonMiami519.63.20
2024 Regular SeasonMiami917.23.14

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs Duke

Week 10 · W 53-31 · Conference game

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2

Havoc Plays

67.2 takeover

2 disruption/tackle impact with 67.2 takeover score.

#2

@ Kansas

Week 13 · W 34-28 · Conference game

2

Havoc Plays

59.7 takeover

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 59.7 takeover score.

#3

vs Middle Tennessee

Week 4 · L 31-45

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Havoc Plays

56.4 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 56.4 takeover score.

#4

@ Georgia Tech

Week 11 · W 35-14 · Conference game

2

Havoc Plays

54.5 takeover

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 54.5 takeover score.

#5

@ Temple

Week 4 · W 41-7

2

Havoc Plays

53.3 takeover

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 53.3 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2024 Regular Season · Miami

9 primary output · 17.2 efficiency · 3.1 usage

51.5

#2

2023 Postseason · Miami

38.7

5 primary · 19.6 efficiency · 3.2 usage

#3

2023 Regular Season · Miami

38.7

5 primary · 19.6 efficiency · 3.2 usage

Milestones

1

Impact games

4

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games