Usage / Role
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Rotational defensive role
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Player Dossier
2018-2022Arizona
Dante Smith
LB • 5'11" • 225 lbs • Round Rock, TX, USA
Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile
Dante Smith shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 4.2 disruption score.
Impact Production
7
Developing production for a linebacker
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Reliability
15
Sporadic game-to-game production
lowhigh
Star Power
15
Limited ceiling signals so far
limitedstar
Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2021 Regular Season · Arizona
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 1
- Unique Seasons
- 5
- Program Path
- Arizona
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Washington State
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- Committed To
- Arizona
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2017
Dante Smith, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2021 Regular Season · Arizona. Dante Smith shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 4.2 disruption score.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Tackles
- 10
- TFL
- 1
Quick Answers
Dante Smith quick answers
- Latest team and position
- Arizona · LB
- Career Tackles
- 10
- Tracked sample
- 5 unique seasons · 5 entries · 6 games
- Best season
- 2021 Regular Season · Arizona
- Top game
- Washington State
- Recruit profile
- 2-star · Stony Point · Arizona
- High school pipeline
- Stony Point · 17 FBS recruits · 1 drafted player
- Latest roster
- No. 38 · Junior
- 2022 Tackles rank
- 1 tackles · LB 1,123rd (top 91%) · Pac-12 447th (top 83%) · National 4,847th (top 83%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Tackles | TFL | Sacks | QB Hur | PD | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 Regular Season | Arizona | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | - |
| 2019 Regular Season | Arizona | 1 | 0 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | 33.3 |
| 2020 Regular Season | Arizona | 3 | 3 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | 36.9 |
| 2021 Regular Season | Arizona | 1 | 6 | 1 | 0 | - | - | 0 | 82.3 |
| 2022 Regular Season | Arizona | 1 | 1 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | 36.7 |
Related Context
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Dante Smith played LB for Arizona. Across 5 tracked seasons, Dante Smith recorded 7 rushing yards and 10 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2019 with Arizona.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2021 Regular Season
Arizona paired 1 primary output with 35 efficiency.
Supporting note
2020 Regular Season role shape
impact-led usage with 4.2 efficiency.
Supporting note
Career value cooled off
2022 Regular Season fell back from the prior stop by season value score.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: Arizona 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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2020 Regular Season · Arizona
Games
3
Havoc Plays / G
0
Efficiency
4.2
Usage
0.8
Consistency
100
Best Game by takeover score
Arizona State
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. Washington: 0. UCLA: 0. Arizona State: 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. Washington: 1 by 4.2. UCLA: 1 by 4.2. Arizona State: 1 by 4.2
Split Comparison
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First Half0 · Games = 2 · +0 vs Second Half
Second Half0 · Games = 1 · +0 vs First Half
Game Log
Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.
3 games
Featured metric
Havoc Plays
Top game by takeover score
Arizona State
Best efficiency game
4.2 vs Arizona State
Career Arc
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Arizona
2018-2022
Opening stop
Season Value Progression
20182019202020212022
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 Regular Season | Arizona | 0 | — | — | — |
| 2019 Regular Season | Arizona | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 Regular Season | Arizona | 0 | 4.2 | 0.8 | 0 |
| 2021 Regular Season | Arizona | 1 | 35 | 11.3 | 1 |
| 2022 Regular Season | Arizona | 0 | 4.2 | 0.7 | -1 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
@ Washington State
Week 12 · L 18-44 · Conference game
Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1
Havoc Plays
76.4 takeover
1 disruption/tackle impact with 76.4 takeover score.
#2
vs Arizona State
Week 15 · L 7-70 · Conference game
0
Havoc Plays
3.9 takeover
Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.9 takeover score.
#3
@ Washington
Week 12 · L 27-44 · Conference game
0
Havoc Plays
3.6 takeover
Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.6 takeover score.
#4
vs Washington State
Week 12 · L 20-31 · Conference game
0
Havoc Plays
3.3 takeover
Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.3 takeover score.
#5
@ UCLA
Week 13 · L 10-27 · Conference game
0
Havoc Plays
3.1 takeover
Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.1 takeover score.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2021 Regular Season · Arizona
1 primary output · 35 efficiency · 11.3 usage
82.3
#2
2020 Regular Season · Arizona
36.9
0 primary · 4.2 efficiency · 0.8 usage
#3
2022 Regular Season · Arizona
36.7
0 primary · 4.2 efficiency · 0.7 usage
Milestones
1
Impact games
0
Splash games
0
10+ tackle games
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