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Rotational defensive role
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Player Dossier
2022-2025New Mexico
Darren Agu
DE • 6'6" • 244 lbs • London, England
Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile
Darren Agu shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 19.1 disruption score.
Impact Production
28
Developing production for an edge defender
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Reliability
16
Sporadic game-to-game production
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Star Power
49
Limited ceiling signals so far
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Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2025 Postseason · New Mexico
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 2
- Unique Seasons
- 4
- Program Path
- Vanderbilt • New Mexico
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Utah State
Player Story
Darren Agu built his college career from 2022 through 2025 as a defensive end from London wearing No. 10, spending time with New Mexico and Vanderbilt. The clearest part of Darren Agu's career was his defensive...
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- Committed To
- Vanderbilt
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2022
Darren Agu, DE. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Postseason · New Mexico. Darren Agu shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 19.1 disruption score.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Tackles
- 60
- TFL
- 5.5
- Sacks
- 3.5
- QB hurries
- 5
- Passes defended
- 4
Quick Answers
Darren Agu quick answers
- Latest team and position
- New Mexico · DE
- Career Tackles
- 60
- Tracked sample
- 4 unique seasons · 5 entries · 28 games
- Best season
- 2025 Postseason · New Mexico
- Top game
- Utah State
- Recruit profile
- 3-star · Rabun Gap-Nacoochee · Vanderbilt
- High school pipeline
- Rabun Gap-Nacoochee · 1 FBS recruit · 0 drafted players
- Latest roster
- No. 10 · Junior
- 2025 Tackles rank
- 30 tackles · DE 61st (top 22%) · Mountain West 113th (top 22%) · National 1,374th (top 23%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Tackles | TFL | Sacks | QB Hur | PD | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 Regular Season | Vanderbilt | 9 | 14 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 23.4 |
| 2023 Regular Season | Vanderbilt | 8 | 16 | 1 | 0.5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 34.4 |
| 2024 Regular Season | Vanderbilt | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | - |
| 2025 Postseason | New Mexico | 11 | 1 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | 49.6 |
| 2025 Regular Season | New Mexico | 11 | 29 | 3.5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 49.6 |
Related Context
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Darren Agu played DE for Vanderbilt and New Mexico. Across 4 tracked seasons, Darren Agu recorded 60 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with New Mexico.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2025 Postseason
New Mexico paired 8.5 primary output with 19.1 efficiency.
Supporting note
2022 Regular Season role shape
impact-led usage with 10.9 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 2 team stops, with role shifts visible across Vanderbilt, New Mexico.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: Elon
Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.
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Season Workbench
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Season Explorer
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2022 Regular Season · Vanderbilt
Games
9
Havoc Plays / G
0.4
Efficiency
10.9
Usage
2.9
Consistency
11.1
Best Game by takeover score
Elon
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. Elon: 2. Hawai'i: 0. Wake Forest: 0. Northern Illinois: 1. Alabama: 0. Ole Miss: 0. South Carolina: 0. Kentucky: 1. Tennessee: 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. Elon: 1 by 24.2. Hawai'i: 2 by 8.3. Wake Forest: 1 by 4.2. Northern Illinois: 2 by 18.3. Alabama: 4 by 16.7. Ole Miss: 1 by 4.2. South Carolina: 2 by 8.3. Kentucky: 0 by 10. Tennessee: 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 · +1 vs Losses
Losses0 · Games = 5 · -1 vs Wins
Game Log
Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.
9 games
Featured metric
Havoc Plays
Top game by takeover score
Elon
Best efficiency game
24.2 vs Elon
| Result | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun 11/27 | vs Tennessee | L 0-56 | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 11/12 | @ Kentucky | W 24-21 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 11/5 | vs South Carolina | L 27-38 | 2 | 2 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 10/8 | vs Ole Miss | L 28-52 | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 9/24 | @ Alabama | L 3-55 | 4 | 2 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 9/17 | @ Northern Illinois | W 38-28 | 2 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 1 | — | — |
| Sat 9/10 | vs Wake Forest | L 25-45 | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 9/3 | vs ElonSplash game | W 42-31 | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sun 8/28 | @ Hawai'i | W 63-10 | 2 | 2 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
Player Story
Darren Agu story
Darren Agu built his college career from 2022 through 2025 as a defensive end from London wearing No. 10, spending time with New Mexico and Vanderbilt. The clearest part of Darren Agu's career was his defensive production: 60 tackles, 5.5 tackles for loss, 3.5 sacks, and 4 passes defended across 28 career games in the available record. That gives Darren Agu'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.
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Vanderbilt
2022-2024
Opening stop
- 2
New Mexico
2025
Final stop
Season Value Progression
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| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 Regular Season | Vanderbilt | 4 | 10.9 | 2.9 | — |
| 2023 Regular Season | Vanderbilt | 5.5 | 15.2 | 4 | 1.5 |
| 2024 Regular Season | Vanderbilt | 0 | — | — | -5.5 |
| 2025 Postseason | New Mexico | 8.5 | 19.1 | 5.1 | 8.5 |
| 2025 Regular Season | New Mexico | 8.5 | 19.1 | 5.1 | 0 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
vs No. 79 Utah State
Week 9 · W 33-14 · Conference game
Win with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
3
Havoc Plays
80.8 takeover
3 disruption/tackle impact with 80.8 takeover score.
#2
vs Kentucky
Week 4 · L 28-45 · Conference game
3
Havoc Plays
78.1 takeover
Loss with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
3 disruption/tackle impact with 78.1 takeover score.
#3
vs Elon
Week 1 · W 42-31
2
Havoc Plays
73.9 takeover
Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
2 disruption/tackle impact with 73.9 takeover score.
#4
vs No. 43 San Diego State
Week 14 · W 23-17 · Conference game
2
Havoc Plays
69.2 takeover
Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
2 disruption/tackle impact with 69.2 takeover score.
#5
vs No. 116 Nevada
Week 8 · W 24-22 · Conference game
1
Havoc Plays
43.6 takeover
Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1 disruption/tackle impact with 43.6 takeover score.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2025 Postseason · New Mexico
8.5 primary output · 19.1 efficiency · 5.1 usage
49.6
#2
2025 Regular Season · New Mexico
49.6
8.5 primary · 19.1 efficiency · 5.1 usage
#3
2023 Regular Season · Vanderbilt
34.4
5.5 primary · 15.2 efficiency · 4 usage
Milestones
4
Impact games
4
Splash games
0
10+ tackle games
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