Former cornerback at San Diego State. 2020: 3 interceptions, 6 pass breakups, 37 tackles.
6′0″ · 190 lb · Pasadena, CA
Recruiting
CB recruit
No. 815 nationally · Signed with San Diego State
No college snaps yet.
His career numbers, season by seasonThe story
Former cornerback at San Diego State. 2020: 3 interceptions, 6 pass breakups, 37 tackles.
Darren Hall
Darren Hall has been at San Diego State through two head coaches in four seasons. In 2020 the league put his name on paper for the first time: All-Mountain West. One game to point at: 5 tackles, 0.5 TFL against Utah State — Week 9, 2020.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
How it ended
Four seasons at San Diego State, 134 tackles, a first-team All-Conference season (2020) — drafted at #108 overall by Atlanta.
His career
Nobody recruited him. He earned the honors anyway.
The role got bigger.
Career arc
Trophy case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
ALL-MOUNTAIN WEST · 1ST TEAM
All-Mountain West 1st team (2020)
Coaching lineage · 2017–2020
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Rocky Long → Brady Hoke. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
Where He Ended Up · NFL
AtlantaEntering 6th NFL season
Season context · Team result + system
Where this defender ranks vs the field
Box-score production percentiles vs the position cohort
Elite: passes defended (96th percentile). Strength: interceptions (92nd percentile). Concern: sacks (27th percentile).
Percentiles are versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score production. There are no play-by-play efficiency bars here: CFBD's play-value model credits offensive players only, so no defensive EPA exists to rank.
Splits · Per-game
2020 season · 8 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home4g | 4.0 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.5 |
| Road4g | 5.2 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 1.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 8+8g | 4.6 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.8 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Sean Lewis
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Player standing · 2020
First team in his league at the position.
| Season | Team | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | San Diego State | 37 | 30 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 6 | 3 | -- |
| 2019 | San Diego State | 49 | 34 | 3.5 | 1.5 | 16 | 1 | -- |
| 2018 | San Diego State | 45 | 34 | 2.0 | 1.0 | 3 | 2 | -- |
| 2017 | San Diego State | 3 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | -- | -- | -- |
| Career | 134 | 101 | 7.5 | 2.5 | 25 | 6 | -- |
SIGNATURE GAME · Week 14 · 2020
W 29–17
6 SOLO · 6 TOT · 1 INT
With J. Byrd — 28 rush yds (9 car) · T. Kuljian — 37 AVG · 1 IN 20 · 47 LONG
Game log · Week-by-week
2020 season · 8 games
| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 8 | W 34-6vs UNLV | 2 | 1 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | W 38-7@ Utah State | 5 | 2 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | L 17-28vs San José State | 4 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | W 34-10vs Hawai'i | 4 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 2 | |
| Wk 12 | L 21-26@ Nevada | 11 | 10 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 1 | 2 | Season-high 11 tackles |
| Wk 13 | L 10-20@ Colorado | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Wk 14 | W 29-17vs Colorado State | 6 | 6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 | 0 | |
| Wk 15 | L 14-28@ BYU | 4 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Total | 37 | 30 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 3 | 6 |
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
37 tackles. 6 passes defended. 3 interceptions. 2 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.