Usage / Role
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Rotational defensive role
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Player Dossier
2025-2025California
Zae Smith
DL • 6'1" • 310 lbs • League City, TX, USA
Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile
Zae Smith shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 12.7 disruption score.
Impact Production
31
Developing production for a defensive lineman
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Reliability
25
Sporadic game-to-game production
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Star Power
40
Limited ceiling signals so far
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Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · California
25
Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 1
- Unique Seasons
- 1
- Program Path
- California
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Texas State
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- Committed To
- Houston Christian
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2024
Zae Smith, DL. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · California. Zae Smith shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 12.7 disruption score.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Tackles
- 5
- TFL
- 1
- QB hurries
- 2
Quick Answers
Zae Smith quick answers
- Latest team and position
- California · DL
- Career Tackles
- 5
- Tracked sample
- 1 unique seasons · 1 entries · 8 games
- Best season
- 2025 Regular Season · California
- Top game
- Texas State
- Recruit profile
- 3-star · Centennial · Houston Christian
- High school pipeline
- Centennial · 59 FBS recruits · 3 drafted players
- Latest roster
- No. 99 · Senior
- 2025 Tackles rank
- 5 tackles · DL 804th (top 75%) · ACC 475th (top 60%) · National 3,741st (top 61%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Tackles | TFL | Sacks | QB Hur | PD | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 Regular Season | California | 4 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 2 | - | 0 | 46 |
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Transfer Portal History
Matched portal movement
| Season | Path | Movement | Value | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Unlisted to California | Unlisted to P4 | 80.7 | May 2, 2025 |
Zae Smith played DL for California. Across 1 tracked season, Zae Smith recorded 5 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with California.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season
California paired 3 primary output with 12.7 efficiency.
Supporting note
2025 Regular Season role shape
impact-led usage with 12.7 efficiency.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: Texas Southern
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 · California
Games
4
Havoc Plays / G
0.8
Efficiency
12.7
Usage
3.9
Consistency
38.9
Best Game by takeover score
Texas Southern
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. Texas Southern: 2. Duke: 0. North Carolina: 1. Virginia Tech: 0
Volume vs Efficiency
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Volume on the x-axis, quality on the y-axis.
Volume versus efficiency scatter chart. Texas Southern: 1 by 24.2. Duke: 2 by 8.3. North Carolina: 0 by 10. Virginia Tech: 2 by 8.3
Split Comparison
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Wins1.5 · Games = 2 · +1.5 vs Losses
Losses0 · Games = 2 · -1.5 vs Wins
Game Log
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4 games
Featured metric
Havoc Plays
Top game by takeover score
Texas Southern
Best efficiency game
24.2 vs Texas Southern
Career Arc
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- 1
California
2025
Opening stop
Season Value Progression
2025
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 Regular Season | California | 3 | 12.7 | 3.9 | — |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
@ Texas State
Week 4
Game with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
2
Havoc Plays
68.4 takeover
2 disruption/tackle impact with 68.4 takeover score.
#2
vs Texas Southern
Week 2 · W 35-3
2
Havoc Plays
67 takeover
Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
2 disruption/tackle impact with 67 takeover score.
#3
vs No. 91 North Carolina
Week 8 · W 21-18 · Conference game
1
Havoc Plays
30.6 takeover
Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1 disruption/tackle impact with 30.6 takeover score.
#4
vs No. 44 Duke
Week 6 · L 21-45 · Conference game
0
Havoc Plays
6.7 takeover
Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 6.7 takeover score.
#5
@ No. 105 Virginia Tech
Week 9 · L 34-42 · Conference game
0
Havoc Plays
5.8 takeover
Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 5.8 takeover score.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2025 Regular Season · California
3 primary output · 12.7 efficiency · 3.9 usage
46
Milestones
2
Impact games
2
Splash games
0
10+ tackle games
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