Player Dossier

2022-2025

Minnesota

Anthony Smith

DL • 6'6" • 285 lbs • Shippensburg, PA, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Anthony Smith shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 44 disruption score.

Usage / Role

1%

Rotational defensive role

lowfeatured

Impact Production

7

Developing production for a defensive lineman

lowelite

Reliability

15

Sporadic game-to-game production

lowhigh

Star Power

19

Limited ceiling signals so far

limitedstar

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2025 Postseason · Minnesota

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
4
Program Path
Minnesota
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: New Mexico

Player Story

Anthony Smith built his college career from 2022 through 2025 as a defensive lineman from Shippensburg, PA, spending time with Minnesota. The clearest part of Anthony Smith's career was his defensive production: 80...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2022 · Rating 0.8996

Shippensburg Area · Shippensburg, PA

Committed To
Minnesota
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2022

Anthony Smith, DL. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Postseason · Minnesota. Anthony Smith shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 44 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
80
TFL
31
Sacks
19.5
QB hurries
19
Passes defended
4

Quick Answers

Anthony Smith quick answers

Latest team and position
Minnesota · DL
Career Tackles
80
Tracked sample
4 unique seasons · 7 entries · 33 games
Best season
2025 Postseason · Minnesota
Top game
New Mexico
Recruit profile
4-star · Shippensburg Area · Minnesota
High school pipeline
Shippensburg Area · 2 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 0 · Junior
2025 Tackles rank
38 tackles · DL 69th (top 7%) · Big Ten 120th (top 16%) · National 981st (top 16%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2022 Regular SeasonMinnesota11-0--038.6
2023 PostseasonMinnesota8210--028.9
2023 Regular SeasonMinnesota812112-028.9
2024 PostseasonMinnesota122211-067.4
2024 Regular SeasonMinnesota12259.5591067.4
2025 PostseasonMinnesota12642-2077.3
2025 Regular SeasonMinnesota123213.510.571077.3

Related Context

Anthony Smith played DL for Minnesota. Across 4 tracked seasons, Anthony Smith recorded 80 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Minnesota.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2025 Postseason

Minnesota paired 40 primary output with 44 efficiency.

Supporting note

2022 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 4.2 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value stayed steady

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

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: New Mexico State

Win 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 · Minnesota

Games

1

Havoc Plays / G

0

Efficiency

4.2

Usage

1.4

Consistency

100

Best Game by takeover score

New Mexico 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

New Mexico State

Best efficiency game

4.2 vs New Mexico State

Result
Fri 9/2vs New Mexico StateW 38-011000

Player Story

Anthony Smith story

Anthony Smith built his college career from 2022 through 2025 as a defensive lineman from Shippensburg, PA, spending time with Minnesota. The clearest part of Anthony Smith's career was his defensive production: 80 tackles, 31 tackles for loss, 19.5 sacks, and 4 passes defended across 33 career games in the available record. That gives Anthony Smith's career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.

Career Arc

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  1. 1

    Minnesota

    2022-2025

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

2022202320232024202420252025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2022 Regular SeasonMinnesota04.21.4
2023 PostseasonMinnesota513.55.65
2023 Regular SeasonMinnesota513.55.60
2024 PostseasonMinnesota28.533.112.223.5
2024 Regular SeasonMinnesota28.533.112.20
2025 PostseasonMinnesota404415.211.5
2025 Regular SeasonMinnesota404415.20

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs No. 73 New Mexico

Week 1 · W 20-17 · Postseason

Win with backfield disruption leading the way.

8

Havoc Plays

91.7 takeover

8 disruption/tackle impact with 91.7 takeover score.

#2

vs Penn State

Week 13 · L 25-26 · Conference game

4.5

Havoc Plays

87.2 takeover

Loss with 4.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

4.5 disruption/tackle impact with 87.2 takeover score.

#3

@ Illinois

Week 10 · W 25-17 · Conference game

4.5

Havoc Plays

85.8 takeover

Win with 4.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

4.5 disruption/tackle impact with 85.8 takeover score.

#4

@ Virginia Tech

Week 1 · W 24-10 · Postseason

4

Havoc Plays

79.1 takeover

Win with 4 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

4 disruption/tackle impact with 79.1 takeover score.

#5

vs No. 46 Nebraska

Week 8 · W 24-6 · Conference game

5

Havoc Plays

77.8 takeover

Win with backfield disruption leading the way.

5 disruption/tackle impact with 77.8 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2025 Postseason · Minnesota

40 primary output · 44 efficiency · 15.2 usage

77.3

#2

2025 Regular Season · Minnesota

77.3

40 primary · 44 efficiency · 15.2 usage

#3

2024 Postseason · Minnesota

67.4

28.5 primary · 33.1 efficiency · 12.2 usage

Milestones

13

Impact games

21

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games