Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2022 Regular Season
Wake Forest paired 16 primary output with 51.7 efficiency.
Player Stats
Ryan Smenda Jr. College Stats
Career production, season-by-season totals, and the selected-season workbench are grouped here for stat-first searches.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Tackles
- 344
- TFL
- 24.5
- Sacks
- 4.5
- QB hurries
- 18
- Passes defended
- 8
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Tackles | TFL | Sacks | QB Hur | PD | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 Postseason | Wake Forest | 7 | 2 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | 20.6 |
| 2018 Regular Season | Wake Forest | 7 | 20 | 2.5 | 1 | - | - | 0 | 20.6 |
| 2019 Postseason | Wake Forest | 13 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 1 | - | 0 | 64.7 |
| 2019 Regular Season | Wake Forest | 13 | 72 | 6 | 2.5 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 64.7 |
| 2020 Postseason | Wake Forest | 9 | 16 | 3 | 0 | - | - | 0 | 43.3 |
| 2020 Regular Season | Wake Forest | 9 | 36 | 2.5 | 1 | 3 | - | 0 | 43.3 |
| 2021 Postseason | Wake Forest | 14 | 6 | 1 | 0 | - | - | 0 | 45.6 |
| 2021 Regular Season | Wake Forest | 14 | 77 | 3.5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 45.6 |
| 2022 Regular Season | Wake Forest | 11 | 106 | 5 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 72.1 |
Player insights
Supporting note
2022 Regular Season role shape
impact-led usage with 51.7 efficiency.
Supporting note
Career value is trending up
2022 Regular Season improved on the prior stop by season value score.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: Duke
Loss with 3 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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2022 Regular Season · Wake Forest
Games
11
Havoc Plays / G
1.5
Efficiency
51.7
Usage
11.6
Consistency
48.8
Best Game by takeover score
Duke
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Active game
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. Vanderbilt: 1. Liberty: 1.5. Clemson: 3. Florida State: 1. Army: 0. Boston College: 2.5. Louisville: 1. NC State: 0.5. North Carolina: 2. Syracuse: 0.5. Duke: 3
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. Vanderbilt: 7 by 39.2. Liberty: 11 by 60.8. Clemson: 9 by 67.5. Florida State: 11 by 55.8. Army: 12 by 50. Boston College: 5 by 45.8. Louisville: 4 by 26.7. NC State: 16 by 55. North Carolina: 16 by 70. Syracuse: 5 by 25.8. Duke: 10 by 71.7
Split Comparison
Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.
Wins1.1 · Games = 6 · -0.8 vs Losses
Losses1.9 · Games = 5 · +0.8 vs Wins
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