Player Dossier

2023-2025

Lamar

Demarcus Rankin

DB • 5'11" • 198 lbs • Ferris, TX, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Demarcus Rankin shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 22.5 disruption score.

Usage / Role

3%

Rotational defensive role

lowfeatured

Impact Production

21

Developing production for a defensive back

lowelite

Reliability

10

Sporadic game-to-game production

lowhigh

Star Power

24

Limited ceiling signals so far

limitedstar

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Lamar

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Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Unique Seasons
3
Program Path
Wake Forest • Lamar
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: North Texas

Player Story

Demarcus Rankin built his college career from 2023 through 2025 as a defensive back from Ferris, TX wearing No. 8, spending time with Lamar and Wake Forest. The clearest part of Demarcus Rankin's career was his...

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Demarcus Rankin, DB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Lamar. Demarcus Rankin shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 22.5 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
18
TFL
0.5

Quick Answers

Demarcus Rankin quick answers

Latest team and position
Lamar · DB
Career Tackles
18
Tracked sample
3 unique seasons · 3 entries · 11 games
Best season
2025 Regular Season · Lamar
Top game
North Texas
Latest roster
No. 8 · Senior

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2023 Regular SeasonWake Forest815-0--032
2024 Regular SeasonWake Forest230.50--031
2025 Regular SeasonLamar10-0--074.2

Related Context

Demarcus Rankin played DB for Wake Forest and Lamar. Across 3 tracked seasons, Demarcus Rankin recorded 18 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2023 with Wake Forest.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season

Lamar paired 1 primary output with 22.5 efficiency.

Supporting note

2024 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 8.8 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value is trending up

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

Supporting note

Multi-stop career journey

Production spans 2 team stops, with role shifts visible across Wake Forest, Lamar.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: North Carolina A&T

Win with 0.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

Analysis workspace

Season Workbench

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Season Explorer

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2024 Regular Season · Wake Forest

Games

2

Havoc Plays / G

0.3

Efficiency

8.8

Usage

1.9

Consistency

50

Best Game by takeover score

North Carolina A&T

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Game-by-Game Trend

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12

Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. North Carolina A&T: 0.5. Clemson: 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.

Scatter view is hidden because this season does not have enough game-to-game variety yet.

Split Comparison

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

Wins0.5 · Games = 1 · +0.5 vs Losses
Losses0 · Games = 1 · -0.5 vs Wins

Game Log

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

2 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

North Carolina A&T

Best efficiency game

9.2 vs North Carolina A&T

Result
Sat 10/12vs ClemsonL 14-4922000
Thu 8/29vs North Carolina A&TW 45-13100.5000

Player Story

Demarcus Rankin story

Demarcus Rankin built his college career from 2023 through 2025 as a defensive back from Ferris, TX wearing No. 8, spending time with Lamar and Wake Forest. The clearest part of Demarcus Rankin's career was his defensive production: 18 tackles, 0.5 tackles for loss, and 1 interception across 11 career games in the available record. That gives Demarcus Rankin'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

    Wake Forest

    2023-2024

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    Lamar

    2025

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

202320242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2023 Regular SeasonWake Forest19.11.8
2024 Regular SeasonWake Forest0.58.81.9-0.5
2025 Regular SeasonLamar122.50.5

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ No. 22 North Texas

Week 1 · Ranked opponent

Game with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1

Havoc Plays

61.3 takeover

1 disruption/tackle impact with 61.3 takeover score.

#2

vs Elon

Week 1 · W 37-17

1

Havoc Plays

50.5 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 50.5 takeover score.

#3

vs North Carolina A&T

Week 1 · W 45-13

0.5

Havoc Plays

26.7 takeover

Win with 0.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0.5 disruption/tackle impact with 26.7 takeover score.

#4

vs Pittsburgh

Week 8 · W 21-17 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

10.6 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 10.6 takeover score.

#5

vs Vanderbilt

Week 2 · W 36-20

0

Havoc Plays

10.6 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 10.6 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2025 Regular Season · Lamar

1 primary output · 22.5 efficiency · usage

74.2

#2

2023 Regular Season · Wake Forest

32

1 primary · 9.1 efficiency · 1.8 usage

#3

2024 Regular Season · Wake Forest

31

0.5 primary · 8.8 efficiency · 1.9 usage

Milestones

1

Impact games

0

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games