STRENGTHS
Darrell has explosive straight-line speed. When he hits a hole…he hits a hole. When he breaks the line of scrimmage, you better have your speed pants on to catch him. Darrel makes most of his yardage and impact from direct snaps. That allows him to hit the line of scrimmage at full speed and gain yardage on off tackle plays and sweeps. Darrell is difficult to catch in the open field and is a one cut running back between the tackles and like I said once he breaks the line of scrimmage he’s like the road running going beep, beep all the way to the end zone.
CONCERNS
Darrell is a one cut running back, he’s also is a one speed running back. He is easy to take down when tackling because he lacks vision, latera explosion to juke players along with the lack of size to break tackles. Darrell takes big hits because of his style of running up high and making him an easy target to take down. Darrell will have to become a better blocker and more of a student of the game to stay on the field and impact as a possible third down back.
TALENT BOARD ROUND 4.39
It’s hard to say how effective Darrell can be at the next level. It truly will depend on the blocking scheme being used in front of him and how well his body can last getting hit because Darrell takes big hits at the college level so, imagine the pounding his body will take at the next level. As I stated before, he runs high and that’s why he is easy to take down just by knocking him off balance sometimes. The bigger issue is pass blocking and reading defenses and identifying players who are blitzing and off course his size to be an effective blocker. Right now, Darrell just runs as fast as he can with little understanding of the running techniques he will need to use at the next level but like I said, once he hits a hole and breaks the line of scrimmage its beep, beep road runner time, all the way to the end zone.
