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Featured defensive role
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Player Dossier
2013-2016Iowa
Desmond King
DB • 5'11" • Detroit, MI, USA
Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile
Desmond King shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 29 disruption score.
Impact Production
100
Top-tier box-score impact for a defensive back
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Reliability
100
Regular contributor with several takeover games
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Star Power
91
Elite ceiling indicators
limitedstar
Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2016 Postseason · Iowa
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 1
- Unique Seasons
- 4
- Program Path
- Iowa
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Florida
Player Story
Desmond King built his college career from 2013 through 2016 as a defensive back from Detroit, MI wearing No. 14, spending time with Iowa. The clearest part of Desmond King's career was his defensive production: 58...
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- Committed To
- Iowa
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2013
NFL Draft
- Draft Year
- 2017
- Selection
- Round 5 · Pick 7
- Overall
- No. 151
- NFL Team
- Los Angeles Chargers
Desmond King, DB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2016 Postseason · Iowa. Desmond King shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 29 disruption score.
Quick Answers
Desmond King quick answers
- Latest team and position
- Iowa · DB
- Career Tackles
- 58
- Tracked sample
- 4 unique seasons · 7 entries · 32 games
- Best season
- 2016 Postseason · Iowa
- Top game
- Florida
- Recruit profile
- 3-star · Crockett · Iowa
- High school pipeline
- Crockett · 10 FBS recruits · 3 drafted players
- NFL Draft
- 2017 · Round 5 · Pick 7 · Los Angeles Chargers
- Latest roster
- No. 14 · Class 2016
- 2016 Tackles rank
- 58 tackles · DB 106th (top 13%) · Big Ten 61st (top 10%) · National 532nd (top 10%)
Desmond King played DB for Iowa. Across 4 tracked seasons, Desmond King recorded 58 tackles and 4 touchdowns. His top tracked season came in 2016 with Iowa.
Recognition
Honors
- 20162016 All-Big Ten Coaches · conference_coachesfirst
- 20162016 All-Big Ten Coaches · conference_coachessecond
- 20162016 All-Big Ten Media · conference_mediafirst
- 20162016 All-Big Ten Media · conference_mediasecond
- 20152015 All-Big Ten · official_conference_selectionfirst
- 20152015 Consensus All-America · ncaa_consensusconsensus · unanimous
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