Furman University

Honors & Awards
2025 Southern Conference All-Freshman Team
2025 Southern Conference Academic Honor Roll
 
2025 — Combined an impressive spring practice and preseason to claim the starting job at defensive tackle…logged starts in 11 of Furman’s 12 games…saw action in every contest…garnered Southern Conference All-Freshman Team honors…credited with 30 tackles, including 3.5 for loss, and a sack…also recorded a forced fumble…tallied a season high seven tackles versus Wofford…sack came in a 31-22 triumph over East Tennessee State…recorded a pair of stops and forced fumble at Samford (31-13 win).

2024 — Appeared in two games as a reserve, seeing duty against Stetson and and VMI...accorded redshirt and extra year of eligibility...named to the SoCon Academic Honor Roll for the 2024-25 school year.

High School:  2024 graduate of Ware County (5A) High School...football coach was Jason Strickland...played defensive line...three-time all-region selection...named 912Sports Defensive Player of the Year and all-state as a senior after helping his squad to an 8-4 record...member of Ware County’s 2022 state championship team that won the title game with a 38-13 triumph over two-time defending champion Warner Robins...also won a 5A state weightlifting championship...named Ware County Student-Athlete of the Year for 2022-23.

Personal: Full name is Demetrius Antwain Baldwin, Jr....born February 6, 2006, in Waycross, Georgia...son of Joi and Demetrius Baldwin, Sr....has a sister, Mariyah, and a brother, Jaloyn James...undeclared major.