Usage / Role
27%
Rotational defensive role
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Player Dossier
2019-2025UConn
Ben Smiley
DL • 6'4" • 245 lbs • Norfolk, VA, USA
Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile
Ben Smiley shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 18.2 disruption score.
Impact Production
60
Solid production for a defensive lineman
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Reliability
54
Useful contributor with volatile peaks
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Star Power
63
Useful peak profile
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Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Virginia
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 2
- Unique Seasons
- 7
- Program Path
- Virginia • UConn
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Richmond
Player Story
Ben Smiley built his college career from 2019 through 2025 as a defensive lineman from Norfolk, VA wearing No. 1, spending time with UConn and Virginia. The clearest part of Ben Smiley's career was his defensive...
Read the storyBen Smiley, DL. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Virginia. Ben Smiley shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 18.2 disruption score.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Tackles
- 71
- TFL
- 9
- Sacks
- 4
- QB hurries
- 12
- Passes defended
- 1
Quick Answers
Ben Smiley quick answers
- Latest team and position
- UConn · DL
- Career Tackles
- 71
- Tracked sample
- 7 unique seasons · 7 entries · 38 games
- Best season
- 2024 Regular Season · Virginia
- Top game
- Richmond
- High school pipeline
- Lawrence North · 15 FBS recruits · 1 drafted player
- Latest roster
- No. 1 · Senior
- 2025 Tackles rank
- 21 tackles · DL 327th (top 31%) · FBS Independents 30th (top 33%) · National 1,944th (top 32%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Tackles | TFL | Sacks | QB Hur | PD | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 Regular Season | Virginia | 2 | 3 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | 38.4 |
| 2020 Regular Season | Virginia | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | - |
| 2021 Regular Season | Virginia | 5 | 7 | - | 0 | 3 | - | 0 | 33 |
| 2022 Regular Season | Virginia | 8 | 13 | 1.5 | 1.5 | - | - | 0 | 18.6 |
| 2023 Regular Season | Virginia | 7 | 15 | 3.5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 56.9 |
| 2024 Regular Season | Virginia | 9 | 12 | 2 | 0.5 | 6 | - | 0 | 59.4 |
| 2025 Regular Season | UConn | 7 | 21 | 2 | 0 | 2 | - | 0 | 41.3 |
Related Context
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Ben Smiley played DL for Virginia and UConn. Across 7 tracked seasons, Ben Smiley recorded 71 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with UConn.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2024 Regular Season
Virginia paired 8.5 primary output with 15 efficiency.
Supporting note
2023 Regular Season role shape
impact-led usage with 19.6 efficiency.
Supporting note
Career value cooled off
2025 Regular Season fell back from the prior stop by season value score.
Supporting note
Multi-stop career journey
Production spans 2 team stops, with role shifts visible across Virginia, UConn.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: Georgia Tech
Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. 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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2023 Regular Season · Virginia
Games
7
Havoc Plays / G
1.1
Efficiency
19.6
Usage
6.3
Consistency
67.2
Best Game by takeover score
Georgia Tech
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. Tennessee: 1. James Madison: 0. William & Mary: 1. North Carolina: 2. Georgia Tech: 2. Louisville: 0.5. Virginia Tech: 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. Tennessee: 3 by 22.5. James Madison: 2 by 8.3. William & Mary: 2 by 18.3. North Carolina: 2 by 28.3. Georgia Tech: 2 by 28.3. Louisville: 3 by 17.5. Virginia Tech: 1 by 14.2
Split Comparison
Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.
Wins1.5 · Games = 2 · +0.6 vs Losses
Losses0.9 · Games = 5 · -0.6 vs Wins
Game Log
Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.
7 games
Featured metric
Havoc Plays
Top game by takeover score
Georgia Tech
Best efficiency game
28.3 vs Georgia Tech
| Result | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sat 11/25 | vs Virginia Tech | L 17-55 | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Fri 11/10 | @ Louisville | L 24-31 | 3 | 1 | — | 0.50 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 11/4 | vs Georgia TechSplash game | L 17-45 | 2 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 10/21 | @ North CarolinaSplash game | W 31-27 | 2 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 10/7 | vs William & Mary | W 27-13 | 2 | 0 | — | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 9/9 | vs James Madison | L 35-36 | 2 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 9/2 | @ Tennessee | L 13-49 | 3 | 3 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 1 | — | — |
Player Story
Ben Smiley story
Ben Smiley built his college career from 2019 through 2025 as a defensive lineman from Norfolk, VA wearing No. 1, spending time with UConn and Virginia. The clearest part of Ben Smiley's career was his defensive production: 71 tackles, 9 tackles for loss, 4 sacks, and 1 pass defended across 38 career games in the available record. That gives Ben Smiley'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.
- 1
Virginia
2019-2024
Opening stop
- 2
UConn
2025
Final stop
Season Value Progression
2019202020212022202320242025
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 Regular Season | Virginia | 0 | 6.3 | 1.1 | — |
| 2020 Regular Season | Virginia | 0 | — | — | 0 |
| 2021 Regular Season | Virginia | 3 | 11.8 | 3 | 3 |
| 2022 Regular Season | Virginia | 3 | 10.5 | 2.5 | 0 |
| 2023 Regular Season | Virginia | 7.5 | 19.6 | 6.3 | 4.5 |
| 2024 Regular Season | Virginia | 8.5 | 15 | 7.3 | 1 |
| 2025 Regular Season | UConn | 4 | 18.2 | 5.1 | -4.5 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
vs Richmond
Week 1 · W 34-13
Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
2
Havoc Plays
78.9 takeover
2 disruption/tackle impact with 78.9 takeover score.
#2
@ Clemson
Week 8 · L 31-48 · Conference game
2
Havoc Plays
74.7 takeover
Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
2 disruption/tackle impact with 74.7 takeover score.
#3
vs Georgia Tech
Week 10 · L 17-45 · Conference game
2
Havoc Plays
74.2 takeover
Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
2 disruption/tackle impact with 74.2 takeover score.
#4
@ North Carolina
Week 8 · W 31-27 · Conference game
2
Havoc Plays
73 takeover
Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
2 disruption/tackle impact with 73 takeover score.
#5
@ No. 98 Florida Atlantic
Week 13 · W 48-45
1.5
Havoc Plays
68.6 takeover
Win with 1.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1.5 disruption/tackle impact with 68.6 takeover score.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2024 Regular Season · Virginia
8.5 primary output · 15 efficiency · 7.3 usage
59.4
#2
2023 Regular Season · Virginia
56.9
7.5 primary · 19.6 efficiency · 6.3 usage
#3
2025 Regular Season · UConn
41.3
4 primary · 18.2 efficiency · 5.1 usage
Milestones
6
Impact games
5
Splash games
0
10+ tackle games
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