2025 Football Roster
Jersey Number 24
Darrian Lewis
- Position:
- Safety
- Height:
- 5-9
- Weight:
- 194
- Class:
- Redshirt Senior
- Hometown:
- Akron, Ohio
- High School:
- St. Vincent-St. Mary
- Prev School:
- Akron
- Played in 48 career games, including 31 starts
- Finished his career with 280 tackles, including 168 solo stops, 1.5 sacks, 11.5 tackles for loss, four interceptions, 17 pass breakups, two forced fumbles and two fumble recoveries
2025 (r-Sr.)
- Started 11 of 12 games at boundary safety
- Used on 575 snaps, including 511 on defense
- Saw action on 40 or more plays in eight games
- Played on a season-high 55 plays at Ohio and 53 against Pitt
- Finished the season with 75 tackles, including 46 solo stops, and added one tackle for loss, one forced fumble and two interceptions through 12 games
- Led the team with 12 tackles, including six unassisted tackles against Texas Tech
- Collected six tackles with three solo stops at Arizona State
- Co-led the defense with seven tackles, including six solo stops and one tackle for loss, against Colorado
- Also, forced his first fumble of the season against Colorado
- Collected three solo tackles at Houston
- Added five tackles with three solo stops against TCU
- Finished with a season-high six solo tackles at UCF
- Added six tackles with three solo stops at BYU
- Registered seven tackles with four solo stops vs. Uah
- Co-led the defense with eight tackles with four solo stops and an interception vs. Pitt
- Tallied an interception in back-to-back games, becoming the first Mountaineer to do so since Beanie Bishop Jr. in 2023 (Sept. 9 vs. Duquesne and Sept. 16 vs. Pitt)
- WVU Team Captain: Ohio
- Recorded an interception and added nine tackles with four solo stops at Ohio
- Totaled four tackles, including three solos in his WVU debut vs. Robert Morris
- Transferred to WVU from Akron in January 2025
2024 (r-Jr.) - Akron
- Played cornerback for coach Joe Moorhead at Akron
- Appeared in 12 games while starting 11
- Finished with 74 tackles, including three tackles for loss
- Had one interception
- Recorded six pass breakups
- Registered a season-high 12 tackles, including a tackle for loss and a pass breakup against Colgate
- Finished with eight tackles against Ohio, Eastern Michigan and Buffalo
- Registered seven tackles against Toledo
- Had five games of seven or more tackles
- Had at least one pass breakup in six games
2023 (r-So.) - Akron
- Played in 12 games
- Finished with 75 tackles, including 51 solo tackles, and four tackles for loss
- Assisted on a sack
- Had one fumble recovery
- Registered a season-high 14 tackles at Central Michigan
- Had nine tackles and two tackles for loss against Morgan State
2022 (r-Fr.) - Akron
- Appeared in all 12 games, including nine starts
- Registered 56 tackles, including 30 solo stops, one sack, 3.5 tackles for a loss and an interception
- Added six pass breakups, five quarterback hurries and one fumble recovery
- Posted a season-high nine tackles, including four solo stops, versus Eastern Michigan
- Registered a pair of tackles for loss and an interception at Liberty
- Tallied two pass breakups at both Northern Illinois and Buffalo
2021 (Fr.) - Akron
- Redshirted
High School
- Four-year letterwinner at St. Vincent-St. Mary High under coach Bobby Nickol
- As a captain, helped lead SVSM to a combined 29-9 record during his four-year prep career en route to collecting 12 touchdowns and a school-record nine interceptions
- As a senior, earned All-Ohio First Team accolades as well as All-Northeast (Inland) District First Team honors as the Fighting Irish advanced to the third round of the Division III playoffs
- SVSM posted 8-2, 7-3 and 8-2 marks during his junior, sophomore and freshman campaigns, respectively
- Also three-year letterwinner and starting point guard on SVSM's nationally ranked basketball program
Personal
- Son of Derik and Lakisha Lewis
- One of four children (2 brothers, 1 sister)
- Majoring in sport leadership
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