2026 games, tackles for loss per game. W and L: the team’s results.
Darin Conley
Darin Conley arrives at Washington with a new fit to prove and an old chapter closed.
Washington fans keep putting the player's case on trial, week to week.
Minority viewA vocal minority sees it the other way.
AI-generated narrative · may contain errors · not journalism · updated 2026-11-04
Play style
Disrupts the pocket from the interior.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
15 tackles. 1 pass defended. 0 interceptions. 2.5 TFL.
Counts only, never a rate — splash-event sample sizes this small (interceptions, pass breakups, TFL) are noise as a rate and signal only as a tally.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
His game this year: disruption in the backfield — 2 tackles for loss, 1 of them a sack, in the 8 games with play by play.
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| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Washington | 15 | 10 | 2.5 | 1.0 | 1 |
| 2025 | Ball State | 24 | 10 | 4.0 | 1.5 | 1 |
| 2024 | Ball State | 16 | 9 | 3.0 | 2.0 | -- |
| Career | 55 | 29 | 9.5 | 4.5 | 2 |
Game log · Week-by-week
2026 season · 8 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 24-10vs Washington State | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 2 | W 16-14vs Utah State | 2 | 1 | 1.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | W 48-16vs Eastern Washington | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | L 24-27vs Minnesota | 3 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 3 tackles |
| Wk 5 | L 21-25@ No. 18 USC | 2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 6 | L 24-41vs No. 20 Iowa | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | W 38-26@ Purdue | 2 | 1 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | W 17-10@ Nebraska | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 15 | 10 | 2.5 | 1.0 | — | 1 |
Ratings of the games shown run from -14 to +15 points against an average team (SP+ rating of each opponent).
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
TFL rate
17%2 TFLSack rate
7%1 sackHurry rate
20%3 hurries15 tackles · 2.5 for loss · 1 sack.
Splits · Per-game
2026 season · 8 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home5g | 2.0 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.2 |
| Road3g | 1.7 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 2.0 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
| Weeks 8+1g | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Jedd Fisch
Pass share
56.4%
287 pass / 222 run
Plays / game
63.6
8 games
Team sack rate
7.6%
330 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Pass-leaning.
Player standing · 2026
Fewer tackles a game than most FBS defensive linemen who play every week.
Recognition
Production · CFB Zeitgeist Score
Three-star recruit. Now #206 at the position.
The No. 2,179 recruit in the country is starting on the defensive line in the Big Ten.
2026 is in progress.
A stat line in 27 games over three seasons.
Coaching lineage · 2023–2026
3 coachesPlayed for 3 head coaches at 2 schools: Mike Neu, Mike Uremovich and Jedd Fisch.
Next stop · Transfer
Transferred to Washington
