Player Dossier

2007-2010

Notre Dame

Brian Smith

OLB • 6'3" • Overland Park, KS, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Brian Smith shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 20 disruption score.

Usage / Role

60%

Regular defensive contributor

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Impact Production

80

High-end production for a linebacker

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Reliability

100

Regular contributor with several takeover games

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Star Power

60

Useful peak profile

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2009 Regular Season · Notre Dame

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
4
Program Path
Notre Dame
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Boston College

Player Story

Brian Smith built his college career from 2007 through 2010 as an outside linebacker from Overland Park, KS wearing No. 58, spending time with Notre Dame. The clearest part of Brian Smith's career was his defensive...

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Brian Smith, OLB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2009 Regular Season · Notre Dame. Brian Smith shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 20 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Touchdowns
1

Quick Answers

Brian Smith quick answers

Latest team and position
Notre Dame · OLB
Career Tackles
0
Tracked sample
4 unique seasons · 4 entries · 4 games
Best season
2009 Regular Season · Notre Dame
Top game
Boston College
Latest roster
No. 58 · Class 2010

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2007 Regular SeasonNotre Dame10-0--156.7
2008 Regular SeasonNotre Dame00-0--0-
2009 Regular SeasonNotre Dame20-0--073.3
2010 Regular SeasonNotre Dame10-0--056.7

Related Context

Brian Smith played OLB for Notre Dame. Across 4 tracked seasons, Brian Smith recorded 1 touchdowns. His top tracked season came in 2007 with Notre Dame.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2009 Regular Season

Notre Dame paired 2 primary output with 20 efficiency.

Supporting note

2010 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 20 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value cooled off

2010 Regular Season fell back from the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Army

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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Season Workbench

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2010 Regular Season · Notre Dame

Games

1

Havoc Plays / G

1

Efficiency

20

Usage

Consistency

100

Best Game by takeover score

Army

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All Games1 · Games = 1

Game Log

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1 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Army

Best efficiency game

20 vs Army

Result
Sun 11/21vs ArmyW 27-31

Player Story

Brian Smith story

Brian Smith built his college career from 2007 through 2010 as an outside linebacker from Overland Park, KS wearing No. 58, spending time with Notre Dame. The clearest part of Brian Smith's career was his defensive production: 4 interceptions across 4 career games in the available record. That gives Brian Smith's career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.

Career Arc

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    Notre Dame

    2007-2010

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

2007200820092010
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2007 Regular SeasonNotre Dame120
2008 Regular SeasonNotre Dame0-1
2009 Regular SeasonNotre Dame2202
2010 Regular SeasonNotre Dame120-1

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs Boston College

Week 7 · L 14-27

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1

Havoc Plays

60 takeover

1 disruption/tackle impact with 60 takeover score.

#2

vs UConn

Week 12 · L 30-33

1

Havoc Plays

60 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 60 takeover score.

#3

vs Boston College

Week 8 · W 20-16

1

Havoc Plays

60 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 60 takeover score.

#4

vs Army

Week 12 · W 27-3 · Conference game

1

Havoc Plays

60 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 60 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2009 Regular Season · Notre Dame

2 primary output · 20 efficiency · usage

73.3

#2

2007 Regular Season · Notre Dame

56.7

1 primary · 20 efficiency · usage

#3

2010 Regular Season · Notre Dame

56.7

1 primary · 20 efficiency · usage

Milestones

4

Impact games

0

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games