Player Dossier

2018-2022

Arizona

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.

Usage / Role

1%

Rotational defensive role

lowfeatured

Impact Production

7

Developing production for a linebacker

lowelite

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
2★

Recruit Profile

Class 2017 · Rating 0.7826

Stony Point · Round Rock, TX

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

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2018 Regular SeasonArizona00-0--0-
2019 Regular SeasonArizona10-0--033.3
2020 Regular SeasonArizona33-0--036.9
2021 Regular SeasonArizona1610--082.3
2022 Regular SeasonArizona11-0--036.7

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

2022 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: Washington 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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2022 Regular Season · Arizona

Games

1

Havoc Plays / G

0

Efficiency

4.2

Usage

0.7

Consistency

100

Best Game by takeover score

Washington State

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All Games0 · Games = 1

Game Log

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1 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Washington State

Best efficiency game

4.2 vs Washington State

Result
Sat 11/19vs Washington StateL 20-3111—00—0——

Career Arc

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    Arizona

    2018-2022

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

20182019202020212022
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2018 Regular SeasonArizona0———
2019 Regular SeasonArizona0000
2020 Regular SeasonArizona04.20.80
2021 Regular SeasonArizona13511.31
2022 Regular SeasonArizona04.20.7-1

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.

Game stats

#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.

Game stats

#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.

Game stats

#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.

Game stats

#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.

Game stats

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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