Usage / Role
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Rotational defensive role
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Player Dossier
2025-2025South Carolina
Donovan Darden
LB • 6'4" • 230 lbs • Havelock, NC, USA
Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile
Donovan Darden shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 4.2 disruption score.
Impact Production
7
Developing production for a linebacker
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Reliability
15
Sporadic game-to-game production
lowhigh
Star Power
19
Limited ceiling signals so far
limitedstar
Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · South Carolina
25
Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 1
- Unique Seasons
- 1
- Program Path
- South Carolina
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Ole Miss
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- Committed To
- South Carolina
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2025
Donovan Darden, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · South Carolina. Donovan Darden shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 4.2 disruption score.
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Donovan Darden quick answers
- Latest team and position
- South Carolina · LB
- Career Tackles
- 1
- Tracked sample
- 1 unique seasons · 1 entries · 1 games
- Best season
- 2025 Regular Season · South Carolina
- Top game
- Ole Miss
- Recruit profile
- 4-star · Havelock · South Carolina
- High school pipeline
- Havelock · 21 FBS recruits · 2 drafted players
- Latest roster
- No. 27 · Freshman
- 2025 Tackles rank
- 1 tackles · LB 1,198th (top 94%) · SEC 636th (top 84%) · National 5,237th (top 85%)
Donovan Darden played LB for South Carolina. Across 1 tracked season, Donovan Darden recorded 1 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with South Carolina.
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