Usage / Role
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Rotational defensive role
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Player Dossier
2022-2025Missouri
Darris Smith
DE • 6'5" • 232 lbs • Baxley, GA, USA
Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile
Darris Smith shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 24.4 disruption score.
Impact Production
7
Developing production for an edge defender
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Reliability
15
Sporadic game-to-game production
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Star Power
19
Limited ceiling signals so far
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Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2025 Postseason · Missouri
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 2
- Unique Seasons
- 4
- Program Path
- Georgia • Missouri
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Mississippi State
Player Story
Darris Smith built his college career from 2022 through 2025 as a defensive end from Baxley, GA wearing No. 3, spending time with Georgia and Missouri. The clearest part of Darris Smith's career was his defensive...
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- Committed To
- Georgia
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2022
Darris Smith, DE. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Postseason · Missouri. Darris Smith shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 24.4 disruption score.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Tackles
- 22
- TFL
- 7
- Sacks
- 5
- QB hurries
- 11
- Passes defended
- 3
Quick Answers
Darris Smith quick answers
- Latest team and position
- Missouri · DE
- Career Tackles
- 22
- Tracked sample
- 4 unique seasons · 5 entries · 17 games
- Best season
- 2025 Postseason · Missouri
- Top game
- Mississippi State
- Recruit profile
- 4-star · Appling County · Georgia
- High school pipeline
- Appling County · 3 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
- Latest roster
- No. 3 · Junior
- 2025 Tackles rank
- 15 tackles · DE 133rd (top 47%) · SEC 292nd (top 39%) · National 2,420th (top 39%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Tackles | TFL | Sacks | QB Hur | PD | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 Regular Season | Georgia | 2 | 2 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | 37.7 |
| 2023 Regular Season | Georgia | 3 | 5 | 1 | 0 | - | 1 | 0 | 30.7 |
| 2024 Regular Season | Missouri | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | - |
| 2025 Postseason | Missouri | 12 | 1 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | 55.9 |
| 2025 Regular Season | Missouri | 12 | 14 | 6 | 5 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 55.9 |
Related Context
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Darris Smith played DE for Georgia and Missouri. Across 4 tracked seasons, Darris Smith recorded 22 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Missouri.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2025 Postseason
Missouri paired 24 primary output with 24.4 efficiency.
Supporting note
2025 Postseason role shape
impact-led usage with 24.4 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 Georgia, Missouri.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: Mississippi State
Win with backfield disruption leading the way. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.
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2025 Postseason · Missouri
Games
12
Havoc Plays / G
2
Efficiency
24.4
Usage
6.5
Consistency
44.6
Best Game by takeover score
Mississippi State
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. Virginia: 0. Central Arkansas: 0. Kansas: 4. Louisiana: 1. South Carolina: 2. Massachusetts: 3. Alabama: 2. Vanderbilt: 1. Texas A&M: 4. Mississippi State: 6. Oklahoma: 0. Arkansas: 1
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. Virginia: 1 by 4.2. Central Arkansas: 2 by 8.3. Kansas: 1 by 44.2. Louisiana: 0 by 10. South Carolina: 1 by 24.2. Massachusetts: 2 by 38.3. Alabama: 1 by 24.2. Vanderbilt: 0 by 10. Texas A&M: 2 by 48.3. Mississippi State: 4 by 66.7. Oklahoma: 1 by 4.2. Arkansas: 0 by 10
Split Comparison
Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.
Wins2.4 · Games = 7 · +1.0 vs Losses
Losses1.4 · Games = 5 · -1.0 vs Wins
Game Log
Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.
12 games
Featured metric
Havoc Plays
Top game by takeover score
Mississippi State
Best efficiency game
66.7 vs Mississippi State
| Result | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun 12/28 | vs Virginia | L 7-13 | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 11/29 | @ Arkansas | W 31-17 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 1 | — | — |
| Sat 11/22 | @ Oklahoma | L 6-17 | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sun 11/16 | vs Mississippi State2+ sacks · Splash game | W 49-27 | 4 | 4 | — | 3 | 2 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 11/8 | vs Texas A&MSplash game | L 17-38 | 2 | 2 | — | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | — | — |
| Sat 10/25 | @ Vanderbilt | L 10-17 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 10/11 | vs AlabamaSplash game | L 24-27 | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 9/27 | vs MassachusettsSplash game | W 42-6 | 2 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 9/20 | vs South CarolinaSplash game | W 29-20 | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 9/13 | vs Louisiana | W 52-10 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 9/6 | vs KansasSplash game | W 42-31 | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Thu 8/28 | vs Central Arkansas | W 61-6 | 2 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
Player Story
Darris Smith story
Darris Smith built his college career from 2022 through 2025 as a defensive end from Baxley, GA wearing No. 3, spending time with Georgia and Missouri. The clearest part of Darris Smith's career was his defensive production: 22 tackles, 7 tackles for loss, 5 sacks, and 3 passes defended across 17 career games in the available record. His largest box-score season came in 2025 with Missouri. Those numbers show where he fit, how often the ball or action found him, and how his role developed over time.
Defensive careers can be hard to read from one number, but Darris Smith's production has multiple signals. With 17 career games in the available record, his career has enough shape to show both opportunity and production across Georgia and Missouri.
The arc is straightforward: Darris Smith moved through the depth chart, found a larger role, and turned that opportunity into production that can be understood through standard football numbers.
Career Arc
Track team changes, role shifts, and season-to-season movement.
- 1
Georgia
2022-2023
Opening stop
- 2
Missouri
2024-2025
Final stop
Season Value Progression
20222023202420252025
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 Regular Season | Georgia | 0 | 4.2 | 1.1 | — |
| 2023 Regular Season | Georgia | 2 | 13.6 | 4.3 | 2 |
| 2024 Regular Season | Missouri | 0 | — | — | -2 |
| 2025 Postseason | Missouri | 24 | 24.4 | 6.5 | 24 |
| 2025 Regular Season | Missouri | 24 | 24.4 | 6.5 | 0 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
vs No. 58 Mississippi State
Week 12 · W 49-27 · Conference game
Win with backfield disruption leading the way.
6
Havoc Plays
88.9 takeover
6 disruption/tackle impact with 88.9 takeover score.
#2
vs No. 9 Texas A&M
Week 11 · L 17-38 · Conference game · Ranked opponent
4
Havoc Plays
71.7 takeover
Loss with 4 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
4 disruption/tackle impact with 71.7 takeover score.
#3
vs No. 58 Kansas
Week 2 · W 42-31
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Havoc Plays
70.3 takeover
Win with 4 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
4 disruption/tackle impact with 70.3 takeover score.
#4
vs UAB
Week 4 · W 49-21
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Havoc Plays
63.3 takeover
Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1 disruption/tackle impact with 63.3 takeover score.
#5
vs No. 136 Massachusetts
Week 5 · W 42-6
3
Havoc Plays
59.4 takeover
Win with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
3 disruption/tackle impact with 59.4 takeover score.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2025 Postseason · Missouri
24 primary output · 24.4 efficiency · 6.5 usage
55.9
#2
2025 Regular Season · Missouri
55.9
24 primary · 24.4 efficiency · 6.5 usage
#3
2022 Regular Season · Georgia
37.7
0 primary · 4.2 efficiency · 1.1 usage
Milestones
4
Impact games
6
Splash games
0
10+ tackle games
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