Player Dossier

2021-2025

UAB

Demarcus Smith

DT • 6'4" • 285 lbs • Birmingham, AL, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Demarcus Smith shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 10.8 disruption score.

Usage / Role

4%

Rotational defensive role

lowfeatured

Impact Production

24

Developing production for a defensive lineman

lowelite

Reliability

9

Sporadic game-to-game production

lowhigh

Star Power

27

Limited ceiling signals so far

limitedstar

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2023 Regular Season · Ole Miss

2122232425

Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Unique Seasons
5
Program Path
Ole Miss • UAB
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Alcorn State

Demarcus Smith, DT. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2023 Regular Season · Ole Miss. Demarcus Smith shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 10.8 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
14
TFL
1.5

Quick Answers

Demarcus Smith quick answers

Latest team and position
UAB · DT
Career Tackles
14
Tracked sample
5 unique seasons · 5 entries · 9 games
Best season
2023 Regular Season · Ole Miss
Top game
Alcorn State
High school pipeline
Walled Lake Western · 15 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 19 · Senior
2025 Tackles rank
4 tackles · DT 187th (top 81%) · American Athletic 409th (top 64%) · National 3,811th (top 62%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2021 Regular SeasonOle Miss00-0--0-
2022 Regular SeasonOle Miss00-0--0-
2023 Regular SeasonOle Miss11-0--036.1
2024 Regular SeasonUAB6910--031.8
2025 Regular SeasonUAB240.50--035.7

Related Context

Demarcus Smith played DT for Ole Miss and UAB. Across 5 tracked seasons, Demarcus Smith recorded 14 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2024 with UAB.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2023 Regular Season

Ole Miss paired 0 primary output with 4.2 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 10.8 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 Ole Miss, UAB.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Tennessee

Loss with 0.5 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 · UAB

Games

2

Havoc Plays / G

0.3

Efficiency

10.8

Usage

3.9

Consistency

50

Best Game by takeover score

Tennessee

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Game-by-Game Trend

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12

Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Akron: 0. Tennessee: 0.5

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.

Scatter view is hidden because this season does not have enough game-to-game variety yet.

Split Comparison

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Wins0 · Games = 1 · -0.5 vs Losses
Losses0.5 · Games = 1 · +0.5 vs Wins

Game Log

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

2 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Tennessee

Best efficiency game

13.3 vs Tennessee

Result
Sat 9/20@ TennesseeL 24-56210.5000
Sun 9/14vs AkronW 31-2820000

Career Arc

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

  1. 1

    Ole Miss

    2021-2023

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    UAB

    2024-2025

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

20212022202320242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2021 Regular SeasonOle Miss0
2022 Regular SeasonOle Miss00
2023 Regular SeasonOle Miss04.20.50
2024 Regular SeasonUAB17.91.61
2025 Regular SeasonUAB0.510.83.9-0.5

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs Alcorn State

Week 1 · W 41-3

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1

Havoc Plays

52.5 takeover

1 disruption/tackle impact with 52.5 takeover score.

#2

@ No. 19 Tennessee

Week 4 · L 24-56 · Ranked opponent

0.5

Havoc Plays

38.6 takeover

Loss with 0.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0.5 disruption/tackle impact with 38.6 takeover score.

#3

@ UL Monroe

Week 2 · L 6-32

0

Havoc Plays

8.6 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 8.6 takeover score.

#4

vs No. 117 Akron

Week 3 · W 31-28

0

Havoc Plays

6.7 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 6.7 takeover score.

#5

@ Army

Week 7 · L 10-44 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

5 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 5 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2023 Regular Season · Ole Miss

0 primary output · 4.2 efficiency · 0.5 usage

36.1

#2

2025 Regular Season · UAB

35.7

0.5 primary · 10.8 efficiency · 3.9 usage

#3

2024 Regular Season · UAB

31.8

1 primary · 7.9 efficiency · 1.6 usage

Milestones

0

Impact games

0

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games