Usage / Role
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Rotational offensive role
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Player Dossier
2018-2021Arizona
Darrius Smith
RB • 5'9" • 187 lbs • Houston, TX, USA
Balanced backfield optionSteady chain mover
Darrius Smith leans balanced backfield option traits and 20.8 efficiency.
Impact Production
43
Developing production for a back
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Reliability
32
Sporadic game-to-game production
lowhigh
Star Power
64
Useful peak profile
limitedstar
Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2019 Regular Season · Arizona
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 1
- Unique Seasons
- 4
- Program Path
- Arizona
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: UCLA
Player Story
Darrius Smith built his college career from 2018 through 2021 as a running back from Houston, TX wearing No. 20, spending time with Arizona. The clearest part of Darrius Smith's career was his backfield work: 300...
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- Committed To
- Arizona
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2018
Darrius Smith, RB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2019 Regular Season · Arizona. Darrius Smith leans balanced backfield option traits and 20.8 efficiency.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Scrimmage yards
- 484
- Rushing yards
- 300
- Receiving yards
- 184
- Touchdowns
- 4
Quick Answers
Darrius Smith quick answers
- Latest team and position
- Arizona · RB
- Career Scrimmage Yards
- 484
- Tracked sample
- 4 unique seasons · 4 entries · 16 games
- Best season
- 2019 Regular Season · Arizona
- Top game
- UCLA
- Recruit profile
- 3-star · Dawson · Arizona
- High school pipeline
- Dawson · 18 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
- Latest roster
- No. 20 · Sophomore
- 2021 Scrimmage yards rank
- 4 scrimmage yards · RB 666th (top 98%) · Pac-12 215th (top 98%) · National 2,459th (top 97%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Scrimmage | Rush Yds | Rec Yds | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 Regular Season | Arizona | 5 | 103 | 100 | 3 | 1 | 30.9 |
| 2019 Regular Season | Arizona | 8 | 377 | 196 | 181 | 3 | 49.4 |
| 2020 Regular Season | Arizona | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - |
| 2021 Regular Season | Arizona | 3 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 9.1 |
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Transfer Portal History
Matched portal movement
| Season | Path | Movement | Value | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Arizona to Unlisted | P4 to Unlisted | 18 | Dec 7, 2021 |
Darrius Smith played RB for Arizona. Across 4 tracked seasons, Darrius Smith recorded 300 rushing yards, 184 receiving yards, and 4 touchdowns. His top tracked season came in 2019 with Arizona.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2019 Regular Season
Arizona paired 377 primary output with 45.4 efficiency.
Supporting note
2019 Regular Season role shape
backfield-heavy usage with 45.4 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: UCLA
Win with 134 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.
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Season Workbench
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Season Explorer
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2019 Regular Season · Arizona
Games
8
Scrimmage Yards / G
47.1
Efficiency
45.4
Usage
8.6
Consistency
27.7
Best Game by takeover score
UCLA
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. Northern Arizona: 92. Texas Tech: 109. UCLA: 134. Colorado: 24. Stanford: 19. Oregon State: -4. Oregon: 2. Utah: 1
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. Northern Arizona: 10 by 88.3. Texas Tech: 10 by 89.2. UCLA: 11 by 86.5. Colorado: 4 by 37.5. Stanford: 6 by 30.4. Oregon State: 1 by 0. Oregon: 1 by 20.8. Utah: 1 by 10.4
Split Comparison
Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.
Wins89.8 · Games = 4 · +85.3 vs Losses
Losses4.5 · Games = 4 · -85.3 vs Wins
Game Log
Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.
8 games
Featured metric
Scrimmage Yards
Top game by takeover score
UCLA
Best efficiency game
89.2 vs Texas Tech
| Result | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun 11/24 | vs Utah | L 7-35 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | — | — | 1 |
| Sun 11/17 | @ Oregon | L 6-34 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | — | — | 2 |
| Sat 11/2 | vs Oregon State | L 38-56 | 1 | -4 | -4 | 0 | — | — | -4 |
| Sat 10/26 | @ Stanford | L 31-41 | 4 | 11 | 2.80 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 3.2 |
| Sat 10/5 | @ Colorado | W 35-30 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 20 | 6 |
| Sun 9/29 | vs UCLA | W 20-17 | 6 | 35 | 5.80 | 0 | 5 | 99 | 12.2 |
| Sun 9/15 | vs Texas Tech | W 28-14 | 9 | 63 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 46 | 10.9 |
| Sun 9/8 | vs Northern Arizona2+ TD | W 65-41 | 8 | 84 | 10.50 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 9.2 |
Player Story
Darrius Smith story
Darrius Smith built his college career from 2018 through 2021 as a running back from Houston, TX wearing No. 20, spending time with Arizona. The clearest part of Darrius Smith's career was his backfield work: 300 rushing yards, 58 carries, 2 rushing touchdowns, and 184 receiving yards across 16 career games in the available record. His career also includes 184 receiving yards and 59 return yards, giving the story more than a single-category snapshot. That gives Darrius Smith's career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.
Career Arc
Track team changes, role shifts, and season-to-season movement.
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Arizona
2018-2021
Opening stop
Season Value Progression
2018201920202021
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 Regular Season | Arizona | 103 | 37.8 | 7.6 | — |
| 2019 Regular Season | Arizona | 377 | 45.4 | 8.6 | 274 |
| 2020 Regular Season | Arizona | 0 | — | — | -377 |
| 2021 Regular Season | Arizona | 4 | 20.8 | 1.3 | 4 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
vs UCLA
Week 5 · W 20-17 · Conference game
Win with 134 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.
134
Scrimmage Yards
79.9 takeover
134 scrimmage yards and 18.6 usage.
#2
vs Texas Tech
Week 3 · W 28-14
109
Scrimmage Yards
69.5 takeover
Win with 109 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.
109 scrimmage yards and 13.3 usage.
#3
vs Northern Arizona
Week 2 · W 65-41
92
Scrimmage Yards
66.1 takeover
Win with 92 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.
92 scrimmage yards and 14.5 usage.
#4
@ Houston
Week 2 · L 18-45
54
Scrimmage Yards
63.9 takeover
Loss with 54 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.
54 scrimmage yards and 15.4 usage.
#5
vs Washington
Week 8 · L 16-21 · Conference game
4
Scrimmage Yards
43.9 takeover
Loss with 4 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.
4 scrimmage yards and 3.8 usage.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2019 Regular Season · Arizona
377 primary output · 45.4 efficiency · 8.6 usage
49.4
#2
2018 Regular Season · Arizona
30.9
103 primary · 37.8 efficiency · 7.6 usage
#3
2021 Regular Season · Arizona
9.1
4 primary · 20.8 efficiency · 1.3 usage
Milestones
0
100+ rush yards
0
150+ scrimmage yards
1
2+ TD games
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