Ronald Darby with the Washington Football Team, 2020
With the Washington Football Team, 2020. Photo: All-Pro Reels, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Cornerback, Florida State, 2012–⁠14

Ronald Darby

Number
No. 3
Height
5′11″
Hometown
Oxon Hill, MD
Born
Jan 2, 1994, in Oxon Hill, Maryland

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Ronald Darby played cornerback at Florida State (2012–⁠14). The Buffalo Bills took Darby in round 2, No. 50 overall in the 2015 NFL Draft.

At a glance

Best season
2012
ACC Defensive Rookie of the Year
Drafted
No. 50
Round 2, 2015 NFL Draft (Buffalo Bills)

Honors

Team titles: ACC champions, 2012, 2013 and 2014; National champions, 2013

Players of the year, conference and regional honors: Wikipedia’s lists (CC BY-SA), each linked from its honor.

Defense

SeasonTeamInt
2013Florida State2

Season lines from CollegeFootballData, regular season and bowls. Before 2016 our source records only interceptions for most defenders (no tackles, tackles for loss or sacks), so these lines count interceptions only. His tackles, tackles for loss and sacks from other sources are under “Defense before 2016” below.

Defense before 2016

SeasonGSoloAstTklIntPBUFFHur
201211184220811
2013N1411314240–
On file297362121–

Our box scores carry tackles, tackles for loss and sacks from 2016 only, so these come from other sources, marked by season: unmarked, cfbstats.com (Open Data Commons Attribution License), its game lines summed (G: the games he has a line in); N, NCAA statistics, via octonion/football, the season’s official lines (G: games played). A dash: the source has no number for it.

On the roster

SeasonTeamNo.PosHt
2012Florida State3CB
2013Florida State3CB
2014Florida State3CB5′11″

As each season’s roster listed the player (CollegeFootballData). Classes before the latest listing are counted back from it; “Yr 1” is the year on file where that count can’t place a season he played (a redshirt, transfer or 2020 year); height and weight as last listed.

Game by game

2013 Florida State 2 games with an interception on file, 2 INT
DateOpponentResultInt
Oct 19atClemsonW 51–⁠141
Oct 26vs.NC StateW 49–⁠171

Box scores from CollegeFootballData, 2004 on. ✦ postseason; ★ a career high on file. Before 2016 our source’s box scores record only interceptions for defenders (no tackles, tackles for loss or sacks), so only those games are listed. His tackles, tackles for loss and sacks from other sources are under “Defense before 2016” below.

Before the draft

DrillCombine 2015Combine or pro day 2015
Height5′10⅝″
Weight193 lb
Arm length31⅜″
Hand size8⅝″
40-yard dash4.38 s
10-yard split1.53 s
Vertical jump41½″
Broad jump10′9″
Bench press12 reps
3-cone drill6.94 s
20-yard shuttle4.14 s

Combine or pro day: the source doesn’t say which. Combine and pro day results compiled by array-carpenter (nfl-draft-data).

In the NFL

10 seasons, 111 games with a stat; latest team: Jacksonville Jaguars.

SeasonTeamGTklSacksInt
2015Buffalo Bills146302
2016Buffalo Bills146300
2017Philadelphia Eagles83303
2018Philadelphia Eagles93901
2019Philadelphia Eagles113602
2020Washington Football Team165400
2021Denver Broncos115100
2022Denver Broncos51200
2023Baltimore Ravens112400
2024Jacksonville Jaguars124500
NFL career11142008

Regular seasons, from nflverse (CC BY 4.0), matched to him by his draft pick and college (Player ids: DynastyProcess (GPL-3.0)). G counts games in which the player recorded a stat.

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