Former safety at Cincinnati. 2020: 2 interceptions, 1 pass breakup, 40 tackles.
6′0″ · 200 lb · Columbus, OH
Recruiting
CB recruit
No. 2118 nationally · Signed with Cincinnati
Statement game16 tackles · 1 TFLvs UCF (FBS) · W 27-24
Top 0.1% tackles game since 2021.
His career numbers, season by seasonThe story
Former safety at Cincinnati. 2020: 2 interceptions, 1 pass breakup, 40 tackles.
Darrick Forrest
Fourth year in the Cincinnati secondary, same address the whole way. One game to point at: 7 tackles against Tulsa — Week 16, 2020.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
How it ended
Four seasons at Cincinnati, 200 tackles — drafted at #163 overall by Washington.
His career
He was on the field for 4 seasons. That is rarer than it sounds.
Career arc
Coaching lineage · 2017–2020
1 coachPlayed his entire career under Luke Fickell.
Where He Ended Up · NFL
WashingtonEntering 6th NFL season
Season context · Team result + system
4 seasons under Luke Fickell — 35-14 over that span.
Where this defender ranks vs the field
Box-score production percentiles vs the position cohort
Elite: solo tackles (88th 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 3.7 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Road2g | 4.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.5 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-73g | 3.3 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 4.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Scott Satterfield
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Player standing · 2020
Splitting first-team reps — starts some weeks, rotates others.
| Season | Team | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Cincinnati | 40 | 31 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 1 | 2 | -- |
| 2019 | Cincinnati | 106 | 63 | 3.5 | 0.0 | 3 | 3 | -- |
| 2018 | Cincinnati | 49 | 29 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2 | 1 | -- |
| 2017 | Cincinnati | 5 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | -- | -- | -- |
| Career | 200 | 126 | 4.5 | 0.0 | 6 | 6 | -- |
SIGNATURE GAME · Week 12 · 2020
W 36–33
at UCF
Game log · Week-by-week
2020 season · 8 games
| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 3 | W 55-20vs Austin Peay | 4 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | W 24-10vs Army | 4 | 3 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | W 28-7vs South Florida | 2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | W 42-13@ SMU | 5 | 5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 10 | W 38-10vs Houston | 3 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | W 55-17vs East Carolina | 2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | W 36-33@ UCF | 4 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 | 0 | |
| Wk 16 | W 27-24vs Tulsa | 7 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 7 tackles |
| Total | 31 | 22 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 2 | 1 |
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
31 tackles. 1 passes defended. 2 interceptions. 1 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.