Besides repeating as All-Area Defensive Player of the Year and All-State selection, he won the Ohio Division-I Defensive Player of the Year award and was named All-American by USA Today and SuperPrep.
[1] DePriest chose Alabama over Ohio State, Florida, LSU, Oklahoma and Notre Dame.
Sources: He left high school a semester early in 2011 to start classes and participate in spring football practice at Alabama.
[2] He played in all thirteen games as a true freshman in 2011, with half of his 25 tackles coming on the kickoff coverage team.
On May 8, 2015, DePriest was signed by the Baltimore Ravens as an undrafted free agent.