Usage / Role
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Regular offensive contributor
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Player Dossier
2017-2022UTSA
Trelon Smith
RB • 5'9" • 185 lbs • Houston, TX, USA
Balanced backfield optionSteady chain mover
Trelon Smith leans balanced backfield option traits and 35.9 efficiency.
Impact Production
74
High-end production for a back
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Reliability
60
Reliable weekly contributor
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Star Power
81
High-upside career profile
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Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2020 Regular Season · Arkansas
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 3
- Unique Seasons
- 6
- Program Path
- Arizona State • Arkansas • UTSA
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Missouri
Player Story
Trelon Smith built his college career from 2017 through 2022 as a running back from Houston, TX wearing No. 28, spending time with Arizona State, Arkansas, and UTSA. The clearest part of Trelon Smith's career was his...
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- Committed To
- Arizona State
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2017
Trelon Smith, RB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2020 Regular Season · Arkansas. Trelon Smith leans balanced backfield option traits and 35.9 efficiency.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Scrimmage yards
- 1,786
- Rushing yards
- 1,558
- Receiving yards
- 228
- Touchdowns
- 13
Quick Answers
Trelon Smith quick answers
- Latest team and position
- UTSA · RB
- Career Scrimmage Yards
- 1,786
- Tracked sample
- 6 unique seasons · 8 entries · 37 games
- Best season
- 2020 Regular Season · Arkansas
- Top game
- Missouri
- Recruit profile
- 3-star · Cy Ridge · Arizona State
- High school pipeline
- Cy Ridge · 20 FBS recruits · 1 drafted player
- Latest roster
- No. 28 · Senior
- 2022 Scrimmage yards rank
- 216 scrimmage yards · RB 354th (top 52%) · Conference USA 87th (top 39%) · National 991st (top 38%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Scrimmage | Rush Yds | Rec Yds | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 Postseason | Arizona State | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12.9 |
| 2017 Regular Season | Arizona State | 4 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 12.9 |
| 2018 Regular Season | Arizona State | 4 | 78 | 56 | 22 | 0 | 23.3 |
| 2019 Regular Season | Arkansas | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - |
| 2020 Regular Season | Arkansas | 10 | 869 | 710 | 159 | 6 | 72.8 |
| 2021 Postseason | Arkansas | 13 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 55.3 |
| 2021 Regular Season | Arkansas | 13 | 613 | 592 | 21 | 5 | 55.3 |
| 2022 Regular Season | UTSA | 6 | 216 | 190 | 26 | 2 | 42 |
Related Context
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Trelon Smith played RB for Arizona State, Arkansas, and UTSA. Across 6 tracked seasons, Trelon Smith recorded 1,558 rushing yards, 228 receiving yards, and 2 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2020 with Arkansas.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2020 Regular Season
Arkansas paired 869 primary output with 56.1 efficiency.
Supporting note
2020 Regular Season role shape
backfield-heavy usage with 56.1 efficiency.
Supporting note
Career value cooled off
2022 Regular Season fell back from the prior stop by season value score.
Supporting note
Multi-stop career journey
Production spans 3 team stops, with role shifts visible across Arizona State, Arkansas, UTSA.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: Missouri
Loss driven by a workhorse rushing load. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.
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2020 Regular Season · Arkansas
Games
10
Scrimmage Yards / G
86.9
Efficiency
56.1
Usage
27
Consistency
57.9
Best Game by takeover score
Missouri
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. Georgia: 51. Mississippi State: 70. Auburn: 159. Ole Miss: 54. Texas A&M: 31. Tennessee: 65. Florida: 126. LSU: 47. Missouri: 173. Alabama: 93
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. Georgia: 9 by 63.2. Mississippi State: 19 by 36.8. Auburn: 27 by 48.6. Ole Miss: 15 by 37.5. Texas A&M: 6 by 59. Tennessee: 11 by 74.6. Florida: 9 by 100. LSU: 13 by 31. Missouri: 27 by 68. Alabama: 20 by 42.1
Split Comparison
Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.
Wins63 · Games = 3 · -34.1 vs Losses
Losses97.1 · Games = 7 · +34.1 vs Wins
Game Log
Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.
10 games
Featured metric
Scrimmage Yards
Top game by takeover score
Missouri
Best efficiency game
100 vs Florida
| Result | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sat 12/12 | vs Alabama | L 3-52 | 19 | 69 | 3.60 | 0 | 1 | 24 | 4.7 |
| Sat 12/5 | @ Missouri100 rush yards · 150 scrimmage yards | L 48-50 | 26 | 172 | 6.60 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 6.4 |
| Sat 11/21 | vs LSU | L 24-27 | 11 | 28 | 2.50 | 1 | 2 | 19 | 3.6 |
| Sun 11/15 | @ Florida100 rush yards | L 35-63 | 8 | 118 | 14.80 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 14 |
| Sun 11/8 | vs Tennessee | W 24-13 | 9 | 72 | 8 | 0 | 2 | -7 | 5.9 |
| Sat 10/31 | @ Texas A&M | L 31-42 | 5 | 30 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5.2 |
| Sat 10/17 | vs Ole Miss | W 33-21 | 15 | 54 | 3.60 | 0 | — | — | 3.6 |
| Sat 10/10 | @ Auburn150 scrimmage yards | L 28-30 | 21 | 81 | 3.90 | 0 | 6 | 78 | 5.9 |
| Sat 10/3 | @ Mississippi State | W 21-14 | 14 | 48 | 3.40 | 0 | 5 | 22 | 3.7 |
| Sat 9/26 | vs Georgia | L 10-37 | 6 | 38 | 6.30 | 0 | 3 | 13 | 5.7 |
Player Story
Trelon Smith story
Trelon Smith built his college career from 2017 through 2022 as a running back from Houston, TX wearing No. 28, spending time with Arizona State, Arkansas, and UTSA. The clearest part of Trelon Smith's career was his backfield work: 1,558 rushing yards, 319 carries, 12 rushing touchdowns, and 228 receiving yards across 37 career games in the available record. His largest box-score season came in 2020 with Arkansas. Those numbers show where he fit, how often the ball or action found him, and how his role developed over time.
The value of the career arc is that it connects production to role, not just a name on a roster. His career also includes 228 receiving yards, 2 tackles, and 90 return yards, giving the story more than a single-category snapshot. With 37 career games in the available record, his career has enough shape to show both opportunity and production across Arizona State, Arkansas, and UTSA.
The arc is straightforward: Trelon Smith moved through the depth chart, found a larger role, and turned that opportunity into production that can be understood through standard football numbers.
Career Arc
Track team changes, role shifts, and season-to-season movement.
- 1
Arizona State
2017-2018
Opening stop
- 2
Arkansas
2019-2021
Peak year stop
- 3
UTSA
2022
Final stop
Season Value Progression
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| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 Postseason | Arizona State | 4 | 41.7 | 0.4 | — |
| 2017 Regular Season | Arizona State | 4 | 41.7 | 0.4 | 0 |
| 2018 Regular Season | Arizona State | 78 | 43.8 | 6.8 | 74 |
| 2019 Regular Season | Arkansas | 0 | — | — | -78 |
| 2020 Regular Season | Arkansas | 869 | 56.1 | 27 | 869 |
| 2021 Postseason | Arkansas | 619 | 48.3 | 15.8 | -250 |
| 2021 Regular Season | Arkansas | 619 | 48.3 | 15.8 | 0 |
| 2022 Regular Season | UTSA | 216 | 35.9 | 13.9 | -403 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
@ Missouri
Week 14 · L 48-50 · Conference game
Loss driven by a workhorse rushing load.
173
Scrimmage Yards
89.3 takeover
173 scrimmage yards and 39.7 usage.
#2
vs Rice
Week 1 · W 38-17
102
Scrimmage Yards
82.8 takeover
Win driven by a workhorse rushing load.
102 scrimmage yards and 39.3 usage.
#3
@ Auburn
Week 6 · L 28-30 · Conference game
159
Scrimmage Yards
80.2 takeover
Loss driven by a workhorse rushing load.
159 scrimmage yards and 42.9 usage.
#4
@ Florida
Week 11 · L 35-63 · Conference game
126
Scrimmage Yards
75.8 takeover
Loss with 126 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.
126 scrimmage yards and 19.1 usage.
#5
vs Texas A&M
Week 4 · W 20-10 · Conference game
82
Scrimmage Yards
71.4 takeover
Win with 82 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.
82 scrimmage yards and 29.3 usage.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2020 Regular Season · Arkansas
869 primary output · 56.1 efficiency · 27 usage
72.8
#2
2021 Postseason · Arkansas
55.3
619 primary · 48.3 efficiency · 15.8 usage
#3
2021 Regular Season · Arkansas
55.3
619 primary · 48.3 efficiency · 15.8 usage
Milestones
3
100+ rush yards
2
150+ scrimmage yards
1
2+ TD games
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