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Rotational offensive role
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Player Dossier
2008-2010Michigan State
Fred Smith
FB • 6'2" • Detroit, MI, USA
Balanced backfield optionSteady chain mover
Fred Smith leans balanced backfield option traits and 16.7 efficiency.
Impact Production
4
Developing production for a back
lowelite
Reliability
15
Sporadic game-to-game production
lowhigh
Star Power
17
Limited ceiling signals so far
limitedstar
Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2008 Regular Season · Michigan State
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 1
- Unique Seasons
- 3
- Program Path
- Michigan State
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Northwestern
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- Committed To
- Michigan State
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2008
Fred Smith, FB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2008 Regular Season · Michigan State. Fred Smith leans balanced backfield option traits and 16.7 efficiency.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Scrimmage yards
- 9
- Receiving yards
- 9
Quick Answers
Fred Smith quick answers
- Latest team and position
- Michigan State · FB
- Career Scrimmage Yards
- 9
- Tracked sample
- 3 unique seasons · 3 entries · 2 games
- Best season
- 2008 Regular Season · Michigan State
- Top game
- Northwestern
- Recruit profile
- 4-star · Southwestern · Michigan State
- High school pipeline
- Southwestern · 1 FBS recruit · 0 drafted players
- Latest roster
- No. 37 · Class 2010
- 2010 Scrimmage yards rank
- 2 scrimmage yards · FB 91st (top 94%) · Big Ten 193rd (top 97%) · National 2,078th (top 98%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Scrimmage | Rush Yds | Rec Yds | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 Regular Season | Michigan State | 1 | 7 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 65.9 |
| 2009 Regular Season | Michigan State | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - |
| 2010 Regular Season | Michigan State | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 37.4 |
Related Context
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Fred Smith played FB for Michigan State. Across 3 tracked seasons, Fred Smith recorded 9 receiving yards. His top tracked season came in 2008 with Michigan State.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2008 Regular Season
Michigan State paired 7 primary output with 58.3 efficiency.
Supporting note
2010 Regular Season role shape
backfield-heavy usage with 16.7 efficiency.
Supporting note
Career value is trending up
2010 Regular Season improved on the prior stop by season value score.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: Notre Dame
Win with 2 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.
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2010 Regular Season · Michigan State
Games
1
Scrimmage Yards / G
2
Efficiency
16.7
Usage
1.5
Consistency
100
Best Game by takeover score
Notre Dame
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All Games2 · Games = 1
Game Log
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1 games
Featured metric
Scrimmage Yards
Top game by takeover score
Notre Dame
Best efficiency game
16.7 vs Notre Dame
| Result | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun 9/19 | vs Notre Dame | W 34-31 | — | — | — | — | 1 | 2 | 2 |
Career Arc
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Michigan State
2008-2010
Opening stop
Season Value Progression
200820092010
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 Regular Season | Michigan State | 7 | 58.3 | 1.8 | — |
| 2009 Regular Season | Michigan State | 0 | — | — | -7 |
| 2010 Regular Season | Michigan State | 2 | 16.7 | 1.5 | 2 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
@ Northwestern
Week 7 · W 37-20 · Conference game
Win with 7 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.
7
Scrimmage Yards
54.5 takeover
7 scrimmage yards and 1.8 usage.
#2
vs Notre Dame
Week 3 · W 34-31
2
Scrimmage Yards
40.3 takeover
Win with 2 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.
2 scrimmage yards and 1.5 usage.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2008 Regular Season · Michigan State
7 primary output · 58.3 efficiency · 1.8 usage
65.9
#2
2010 Regular Season · Michigan State
37.4
2 primary · 16.7 efficiency · 1.5 usage
#3
2009 Regular Season · Michigan State
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0 primary · — efficiency · — usage
Milestones
0
100+ rush yards
0
150+ scrimmage yards
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2+ TD games
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