Usage Score
0.8
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.
Efficiency
4.2
Consistency
100
Season Value
35
Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season · South Carolina
25
Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 1
- Seasons Tracked
- 1
- Program Path
- South Carolina
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Ole Miss
Scouting Read
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Donovan Darden, LB. Best season Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season · South Carolina. Donovan Darden shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 4.2 disruption score.
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.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season
South Carolina paired 0 primary output with 4.2 efficiency.
Supporting note
2025 Regular Season role shape
impact-led usage with 4.2 efficiency.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: Ole Miss
Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.
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2025 Regular Season · South Carolina
Games
1
Havoc Plays / G
0
Efficiency
4.2
Usage
0.8
Consistency
100
Best Game by takeover score
Ole Miss
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1 games
Featured metric
Havoc Plays
Top game by takeover score
Ole Miss
Best efficiency game
4.2 vs Ole Miss
| Result | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sat 11/1 | @ Ole Miss | L 14-30 | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
Career Arc
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- 1
South Carolina
2025
Opening stop
Season Progression
2025
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 Regular Season | South Carolina | 0 | 4.2 | 0.8 | — |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
Ole Miss
Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0
Primary metric
0 disruption/tackle impact with 1.7 takeover score.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by value score
2025 Regular Season · South Carolina
0 primary output · 4.2 efficiency · 0.8 usage
35
Milestones
0
Impact games
0
Splash games
0
10+ tackle games
Bio, Recruit, and Data Context
Recruit Profile
4★
Class 2025 · Rating 0.9207
Havelock · Havelock, NC
- Committed To
- South Carolina
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2025
Career Facts
1
Career teams
1
Seasons tracked
1
Career Tackles
Data Context
Coverage spans 1 tracked seasons, 1 games, and SP opponent-strength context when available. Derived metrics fall back to raw production when share or rating context is missing.