Usage / Role
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Rotational defensive role
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Player Dossier
2021-2025Notre 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.
Impact Production
39
Developing production for a corner
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Reliability
48
Useful contributor with volatile peaks
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Star Power
52
Limited ceiling signals so far
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Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2023 Regular Season · Alabama
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 2
- Unique Seasons
- 5
- Program Path
- Alabama • Notre Dame
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Wisconsin
Player Story
DeVonta Smith built his college career from 2021 through 2025 as a cornerback from Cincinnati, OH, spending time with Alabama and Notre Dame. The clearest part of DeVonta Smith's career was his defensive production:...
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- Committed To
- Alabama
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2020
DeVonta Smith, CB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2023 Regular Season · Alabama. DeVonta Smith shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 17.6 disruption score.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Tackles
- 56
- TFL
- 1.5
- QB hurries
- 1
- Passes defended
- 8
Featured Highlight
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DeVonta Smith Alabama Highlights
2024 · Alabama · Player Highlight
DeVonta Smith college highlights at Alabama.
- Season
- 2024
- Type
- Player highlight
Quick Answers
DeVonta Smith quick answers
- Latest team and position
- Notre Dame · CB
- Career Tackles
- 56
- Tracked sample
- 5 unique seasons · 5 entries · 20 games
- Best season
- 2023 Regular Season · Alabama
- Top game
- Wisconsin
- Recruit profile
- 4-star · Sebastian River · Alabama
- High school pipeline
- La Salle · 22 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
- Latest roster
- No. 0 · Senior
- 2025 Tackles rank
- 20 tackles · CB 181st (top 39%) · FBS Independents 33rd (top 36%) · National 2,028th (top 33%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Tackles | TFL | Sacks | QB Hur | PD | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 Regular Season | Alabama | 2 | 2 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | 37.1 |
| 2022 Regular Season | Alabama | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | - |
| 2023 Regular Season | Alabama | 1 | 4 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | 48.1 |
| 2024 Regular Season | Alabama | 10 | 30 | 0.5 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 39.1 |
| 2025 Regular Season | Notre Dame | 7 | 20 | 1 | 0 | - | 3 | 0 | 29 |
Related Context
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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.
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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 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.
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2025 Regular Season · Notre Dame
Games
7
Havoc Plays / G
0.6
Efficiency
17.6
Usage
2.7
Consistency
14.3
Best Game by takeover score
Syracuse
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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 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 · +0.7 vs Losses
Losses0 · Games = 1 · -0.7 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
Syracuse
Best efficiency game
32.5 vs Syracuse
Player Story
DeVonta Smith story
DeVonta Smith built his college career from 2021 through 2025 as a cornerback from Cincinnati, OH, spending time with Alabama and Notre Dame. The clearest part of DeVonta Smith's career was his defensive production: 56 tackles, 1.5 tackles for loss, and 8 passes defended across 20 career games in the available record. That gives DeVonta 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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Alabama
2021-2024
Opening stop
- 2
Notre Dame
2025
Final stop
Season Value Progression
20212022202320242025
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 Regular Season | Alabama | 0 | 4.2 | 0.9 | — |
| 2022 Regular Season | Alabama | 0 | — | — | 0 |
| 2023 Regular Season | Alabama | 0 | 16.7 | 3.3 | 0 |
| 2024 Regular Season | Alabama | 6.5 | 19 | 3.3 | 6.5 |
| 2025 Regular Season | Notre Dame | 4 | 17.6 | 2.7 | -2.5 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
@ Wisconsin
Week 3 · W 42-10
Win with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
3
Havoc Plays
73.1 takeover
3 disruption/tackle impact with 73.1 takeover score.
#2
vs No. 115 Syracuse
Week 13 · W 70-7
2
Havoc Plays
55.6 takeover
Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
2 disruption/tackle impact with 55.6 takeover score.
#3
@ Oklahoma
Week 13 · L 3-24 · Conference game
0.5
Havoc Plays
46.9 takeover
Loss with 0.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0.5 disruption/tackle impact with 46.9 takeover score.
#4
vs Georgia
Week 5 · W 41-34 · Conference game
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Havoc Plays
39.2 takeover
Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
2 disruption/tackle impact with 39.2 takeover score.
#5
@ No. 36 Pittsburgh
Week 12 · W 37-15
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Havoc Plays
32.8 takeover
Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1 disruption/tackle impact with 32.8 takeover score.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2023 Regular Season · Alabama
0 primary output · 16.7 efficiency · 3.3 usage
48.1
#2
2024 Regular Season · Alabama
39.1
6.5 primary · 19 efficiency · 3.3 usage
#3
2021 Regular Season · Alabama
37.1
0 primary · 4.2 efficiency · 0.9 usage
Milestones
1
Impact games
3
Splash games
0
10+ tackle games
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