Player Dossier

2017-2020

Purdue

Simeon Smiley

CB • 6'0" • 210 lbs • Pensacola, FL, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Simeon Smiley shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 12.9 disruption score.

Usage Score

2.9

Efficiency

12.9

Consistency

8.3

Season Value

6.9

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by value score: 2018 Regular Season · Purdue

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Seasons Tracked
5
Program Path
Purdue
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: TCU

Scouting Read

Best season and peak-game context are pinned here so the rest of the page can stay analytical without losing the headline story.

Simeon Smiley, CB. Best season Best season by value score: 2018 Regular Season · Purdue. Simeon Smiley shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 12.9 disruption score.

Simeon Smiley played CB for Purdue. Across 4 tracked seasons, Simeon Smiley recorded 74 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2019 with Purdue.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2018 Regular Season

Purdue paired 9 primary output with 17.3 efficiency.

Supporting note

2020 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 12.9 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value cooled off

2020 Regular Season fell back from the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Northwestern

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

Analysis workspace

Season Workbench

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Season Explorer

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2020 Regular Season · Purdue

Games

4

Havoc Plays / G

0.3

Efficiency

12.9

Usage

2.9

Consistency

8.3

Best Game by takeover score

Nebraska

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Illinois: 0. Northwestern: 1. Rutgers: 0. Nebraska: 0

Volume vs Efficiency

Each dot is a game. Farther right means the player carried more of the workload, and higher means they were more efficient with those chances.

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Volume on the x-axis, quality on the y-axis.

Volume versus efficiency scatter chart. Illinois: 4 by 16.7. Northwestern: 2 by 18.3. Rutgers: 2 by 8.3. Nebraska: 2 by 8.3

Split Comparison

Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.

Losses0.3 · Games = 3
First Half0.5 · Games = 2 · +0.5 vs Second Half
Second Half0 · Games = 2 · -0.5 vs First Half
All Games0.3 · Games = 4

Game Log

Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.

4 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Northwestern

Best efficiency game

18.3 vs Northwestern

Result
Sat 12/5vs NebraskaL 27-3722000
Sat 11/28vs RutgersL 30-3722000
Sat 11/14vs NorthwesternL 20-2722100
Sat 10/31@ IllinoisW 31-2443000

Career Arc

Track team changes, role shifts, and season-to-season movement.

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    Purdue

    2017-2020

    Opening stop

Season Progression

20172017201820192020
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2017 PostseasonPurdue191.4
2017 Regular SeasonPurdue191.40
2018 Regular SeasonPurdue917.33.18
2019 Regular SeasonPurdue6.514.83.6-2.5
2020 Regular SeasonPurdue112.92.9-5.5

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

TCU

Loss with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

3

Primary metric

3 disruption/tackle impact with 50.7 takeover score.

#2

Ohio State

2

Primary metric

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 49.5 takeover score.

#3

Michigan State

2

Primary metric

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 41.6 takeover score.

#4

Northwestern

1

Primary metric

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 41.4 takeover score.

#5

Minnesota

1

Primary metric

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 36.7 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by value score

2018 Regular Season · Purdue

9 primary output · 17.3 efficiency · 3.1 usage

29.2

#2

2019 Regular Season · Purdue

13.2

6.5 primary · 14.8 efficiency · 3.6 usage

#3

2020 Regular Season · Purdue

6.9

1 primary · 12.9 efficiency · 2.9 usage

Milestones

0

Impact games

0

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games

Bio, Recruit, and Data Context

Recruit Profile

3★

Class 2016 · Rating 0.8211

Pensacola Catholic · Pensacola, FL

Committed To
Purdue
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2016

Career Facts

1

Career teams

5

Seasons tracked

74

Career Tackles

Data Context

Coverage spans 5 tracked seasons, 35 games, and base opponent context only. Derived metrics fall back to raw production when share or rating context is missing.