Player Dossier

2022-2025

UAB

James Smyre

DE • 6'2" • 235 lbs • Columbus, GA, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

James Smyre shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 8.3 disruption score.

Usage / Role

3%

Rotational defensive role

lowfeatured

Impact Production

14

Developing production for an edge defender

lowelite

Reliability

9

Sporadic game-to-game production

lowhigh

Star Power

22

Limited ceiling signals so far

limitedstar

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · UAB

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Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Unique Seasons
4
Program Path
Marshall • UAB
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Alcorn State

Player Story

James Smyre built his college career from 2022 through 2025 as a defensive end from Columbus, GA wearing No. 25, spending time with Marshall and UAB. The clearest part of James Smyre's career was his defensive...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2022 · Rating 0.8448

Central · Phenix City, AL

Committed To
Marshall
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2022

James Smyre, DE. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · UAB. James Smyre shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 8.3 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
20
TFL
2
Sacks
2

Quick Answers

James Smyre quick answers

Latest team and position
UAB · DE
Career Tackles
20
Tracked sample
4 unique seasons · 4 entries · 13 games
Best season
2025 Regular Season · UAB
Top game
Alcorn State
Recruit profile
3-star · Central · Marshall
High school pipeline
Central · 45 FBS recruits · 3 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 25 · Senior
2025 Tackles rank
6 tackles · DE 194th (top 69%) · American Athletic 370th (top 58%) · National 3,465th (top 56%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2022 Regular SeasonMarshall00-0--0-
2023 Regular SeasonUAB45-0--037.6
2024 Regular SeasonUAB6922--037.4
2025 Regular SeasonUAB36-0--039.5

Related Context

James Smyre played DE for Marshall and UAB. Across 4 tracked seasons, James Smyre recorded 20 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2024 with UAB.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season

UAB paired 0 primary output with 8.3 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 8.3 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 Marshall, UAB.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Army

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

Analysis workspace

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Season Explorer

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2025 Regular Season · UAB

Games

3

Havoc Plays / G

0

Efficiency

8.3

Usage

1.2

Consistency

100

Best Game by takeover score

Army

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Game-by-Game Trend

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123

Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Akron: 0. Army: 0. Rice: 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 on the x-axis, quality on the y-axis.

Volume versus efficiency scatter chart. Akron: 1 by 4.2. Army: 3 by 12.5. Rice: 2 by 8.3

Split Comparison

Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.

Wins0 · Games = 1 · +0 vs Losses
Losses0 · Games = 2 · +0 vs Wins

Game Log

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

3 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Army

Best efficiency game

12.5 vs Army

Result
Sat 11/8@ RiceL 17-2421000
Sat 10/4vs ArmyL 13-3132000
Sun 9/14vs AkronW 31-2810000

Player Story

James Smyre story

James Smyre built his college career from 2022 through 2025 as a defensive end from Columbus, GA wearing No. 25, spending time with Marshall and UAB. The clearest part of James Smyre's career was his defensive production: 20 tackles, 2 tackles for loss, and 2 sacks across 13 career games in the available record. That gives James Smyre'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.

  1. 1

    Marshall

    2022

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    UAB

    2023-2025

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

2022202320242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2022 Regular SeasonMarshall0
2023 Regular SeasonUAB05.20.90
2024 Regular SeasonUAB412.93.14
2025 Regular SeasonUAB08.31.2-4

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs Alcorn State

Week 1 · W 41-3

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2

Havoc Plays

61.1 takeover

2 disruption/tackle impact with 61.1 takeover score.

#2

vs Tulsa

Week 10 · W 59-21 · Conference game

2

Havoc Plays

60.6 takeover

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 60.6 takeover score.

#3

vs No. 74 Army

Week 6 · L 13-31 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

9.4 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 9.4 takeover score.

#4

@ South Florida

Week 8 · L 25-35 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

8.9 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 8.9 takeover score.

#5

@ Georgia

Week 4 · L 21-49

0

Havoc Plays

6.9 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 6.9 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2025 Regular Season · UAB

0 primary output · 8.3 efficiency · 1.2 usage

39.5

#2

2023 Regular Season · UAB

37.6

0 primary · 5.2 efficiency · 0.9 usage

#3

2024 Regular Season · UAB

37.4

4 primary · 12.9 efficiency · 3.1 usage

Milestones

2

Impact games

2

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games