Usage / Role
3%
Rotational defensive role
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Player Dossier
2018-2021California
Branden Smith
CB • 5'10" • 175 lbs • Lancaster, CA, USA
Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile
Branden Smith shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 5.2 disruption score.
Impact Production
9
Developing production for a corner
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Reliability
10
Sporadic game-to-game production
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Star Power
17
Limited ceiling signals so far
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Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2019 Regular Season · California
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 1
- Unique Seasons
- 4
- Program Path
- California
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: North Texas
Branden Smith, CB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2019 Regular Season · California. Branden Smith shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 5.2 disruption score.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Tackles
- 21
Quick Answers
Branden Smith quick answers
- Latest team and position
- California · CB
- Career Tackles
- 21
- Tracked sample
- 4 unique seasons · 4 entries · 14 games
- Best season
- 2019 Regular Season · California
- Top game
- North Texas
- Latest roster
- No. 18 · Junior
- 2021 Tackles rank
- 5 tackles · CB 268th (top 68%) · Pac-12 304th (top 55%) · National 3,302nd (top 56%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Tackles | TFL | Sacks | QB Hur | PD | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 Regular Season | California | 3 | 3 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | 36.9 |
| 2019 Regular Season | California | 7 | 13 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | 39.4 |
| 2020 Regular Season | California | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | - |
| 2021 Regular Season | California | 4 | 5 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | 37.8 |
Related Context
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Branden Smith played CB for California. Across 4 tracked seasons, Branden Smith recorded 21 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2019 with California.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2019 Regular Season
California paired 0 primary output with 7.8 efficiency.
Supporting note
2021 Regular Season role shape
impact-led usage with 5.2 efficiency.
Supporting note
Career value is trending up
2021 Regular Season improved on the prior stop by season value score.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: Washington State
Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.
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2021 Regular Season · California
Games
4
Havoc Plays / G
0
Efficiency
5.2
Usage
1
Consistency
100
Best Game by takeover score
Washington State
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. Nevada: 0. Sacramento State: 0. Washington State: 0. Stanford: 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. Nevada: 1 by 4.2. Sacramento State: 1 by 4.2. Washington State: 2 by 8.3. Stanford: 1 by 4.2
Split Comparison
Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.
Wins0 · Games = 2 · +0 vs Losses
Losses0 · Games = 2 · +0 vs Wins
Game Log
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4 games
Featured metric
Havoc Plays
Top game by takeover score
Washington State
Best efficiency game
8.3 vs Washington State
Career Arc
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- 1
California
2018-2021
Opening stop
Season Value Progression
2018201920202021
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 Regular Season | California | 0 | 4.2 | 0.8 | — |
| 2019 Regular Season | California | 0 | 7.8 | 1.2 | 0 |
| 2020 Regular Season | California | 0 | — | — | 0 |
| 2021 Regular Season | California | 0 | 5.2 | 1 | 0 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
vs North Texas
Week 3 · W 23-17
Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
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Havoc Plays
10 takeover
0 disruption/tackle impact with 10 takeover score.
#2
vs Oregon State
Week 8 · L 17-21 · Conference game
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Havoc Plays
9.7 takeover
Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 9.7 takeover score.
#3
@ Ole Miss
Week 4 · W 28-20
0
Havoc Plays
9.4 takeover
Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 9.4 takeover score.
#4
vs Washington State
Week 5 · L 6-21 · Conference game
0
Havoc Plays
6.9 takeover
Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 6.9 takeover score.
#5
vs North Carolina
Week 1 · W 24-17
0
Havoc Plays
3.9 takeover
Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.9 takeover score.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2019 Regular Season · California
0 primary output · 7.8 efficiency · 1.2 usage
39.4
#2
2021 Regular Season · California
37.8
0 primary · 5.2 efficiency · 1 usage
#3
2018 Regular Season · California
36.9
0 primary · 4.2 efficiency · 0.8 usage
Milestones
0
Impact games
0
Splash games
0
10+ tackle games
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