Player Dossier

2021-2025

Notre Dame

DeVonta Smith

CB • 5'11" • 196 lbs • Cincinnati, OH, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

DeVonta Smith shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 17.6 disruption score.

Usage Score

2.8

Efficiency

17.6

Consistency

14.3

Season Value

11.9

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by value score: 2023 Regular Season · Alabama

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Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Seasons Tracked
5
Program Path
Alabama • Notre Dame
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Syracuse

Scouting Read

Best season and peak-game context are pinned here so the rest of the page can stay analytical without losing the headline story.

DeVonta Smith, CB. Best season Best season by value score: 2023 Regular Season · Alabama. DeVonta Smith shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 17.6 disruption score.

DeVonta Smith played CB for Alabama and Notre Dame. Across 5 tracked seasons, DeVonta Smith recorded 56 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2024 with Alabama.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2023 Regular Season

Alabama paired 0 primary output with 16.7 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 17.6 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value stayed steady

2025 Regular Season tracked close to the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Multi-stop career journey

Production spans 2 team stops, with role shifts visible across Alabama, Notre Dame.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Syracuse

Win with 2 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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2025 Regular Season · Notre Dame

Games

7

Havoc Plays / G

0.6

Efficiency

17.6

Usage

2.8

Consistency

14.3

Best Game by takeover score

Stanford

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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. Miami: 0. Arkansas: 0. Boston College: 1. Navy: 0. Pittsburgh: 1. Syracuse: 2. Stanford: 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. Miami: 1 by 4.2. Arkansas: 1 by 4.2. Boston College: 2 by 18.3. Navy: 5 by 20.8. Pittsburgh: 3 by 22.5. Syracuse: 3 by 32.5. Stanford: 5 by 20.8

Split Comparison

Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.

Wins0.7 · Games = 6
First Half0.3 · Games = 4 · -0.8 vs Second Half
Second Half1 · Games = 3 · +0.8 vs First Half
All Games0.6 · Games = 7

Game Log

Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.

7 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Syracuse

Best efficiency game

32.5 vs Syracuse

Result
Sun 11/30@ StanfordW 49-2055000
Sat 11/22vs SyracuseW 70-733101
Sat 11/15@ PittsburghW 37-1532001
Sun 11/9vs NavyW 49-1054000
Sat 11/1@ Boston CollegeW 25-1022001
Sat 9/27@ ArkansasW 56-1311000
Sun 8/31@ MiamiL 24-2711000

Career Arc

Track team changes, role shifts, and season-to-season movement.

  1. 1

    Alabama

    2021-2024

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    Notre Dame

    2025

    Final stop

Season Progression

20212022202320242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2021 Regular SeasonAlabama04.20.9
2022 Regular SeasonAlabama00
2023 Regular SeasonAlabama016.73.30
2024 Regular SeasonAlabama5.5182.65.5
2025 Regular SeasonNotre Dame417.62.8-1.5

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

Syracuse

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2

Primary metric

2 disruption/tackle impact with 45.7 takeover score.

#2

Georgia

2

Primary metric

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 44.9 takeover score.

#3

Wisconsin

2

Primary metric

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 44.8 takeover score.

#4

Pittsburgh

1

Primary metric

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 25.2 takeover score.

#5

Oklahoma

0.5

Primary metric

Loss with 0.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0.5 disruption/tackle impact with 24.5 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by value score

2023 Regular Season · Alabama

0 primary output · 16.7 efficiency · 3.3 usage

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#2

2021 Regular Season · Alabama

35

0 primary · 4.2 efficiency · 0.9 usage

#3

2024 Regular Season · Alabama

12.9

5.5 primary · 18 efficiency · 2.6 usage

Milestones

0

Impact games

0

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games

Bio, Recruit, and Data Context

Recruit Profile

4★

Class 2020 · Rating 0.973

Sebastian River · Sebastian, FL

Committed To
Alabama
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2020

Career Facts

2

Career teams

5

Seasons tracked

56

Career Tackles

Data Context

Coverage spans 5 tracked seasons, 20 games, and SP opponent-strength context when available. Derived metrics fall back to raw production when share or rating context is missing.