Usage / Role
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Rotational defensive role
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Player Dossier
2023-2025Ohio State
Will Smith Jr.
DL • 6'4" • 292 lbs • Dublin, OH, USA
Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile
Will Smith Jr. shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 7.6 disruption score.
Impact Production
14
Developing production for a defensive lineman
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Reliability
15
Sporadic game-to-game production
lowhigh
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 · Ohio State
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 1
- Unique Seasons
- 3
- Program Path
- Ohio State
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Rutgers
Player Story
Will Smith Jr. built his college career from 2023 through 2025 as a defensive lineman from Dublin, OH wearing No. 53, spending time with Ohio State. The clearest part of Will Smith Jr.'s career was his defensive...
Read the storyWill Smith Jr., DL. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Postseason · Ohio State. Will Smith Jr. shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 7.6 disruption score.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Tackles
- 21
Quick Answers
Will Smith Jr. quick answers
- Latest team and position
- Ohio State · DL
- Career Tackles
- 21
- Tracked sample
- 3 unique seasons · 4 entries · 12 games
- Best season
- 2025 Postseason · Ohio State
- Top game
- Rutgers
- High school pipeline
- Chaminade-Madonna · 1 FBS recruit · 0 drafted players
- Latest roster
- No. 53 · Junior
- 2025 Tackles rank
- 20 tackles · DL 368th (top 35%) · Big Ten 249th (top 32%) · National 2,077th (top 34%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Tackles | TFL | Sacks | QB Hur | PD | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 Regular Season | Ohio State | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | - |
| 2024 Regular Season | Ohio State | 1 | 1 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | 37 |
| 2025 Postseason | Ohio State | 11 | 2 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | 40.3 |
| 2025 Regular Season | Ohio State | 11 | 18 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | 40.3 |
Related Context
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Will Smith Jr. played DL for Ohio State. Across 3 tracked seasons, Will Smith Jr. recorded 21 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Ohio State.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2025 Postseason
Ohio State paired 0 primary output with 7.6 efficiency.
Supporting note
2025 Postseason role shape
impact-led usage with 7.6 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: Rutgers
Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.
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2025 Postseason · Ohio State
Games
11
Havoc Plays / G
0
Efficiency
7.6
Usage
1.6
Consistency
100
Best Game by takeover score
Rutgers
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. Miami: 0. Texas: 0. Ohio: 0. Washington: 0. Minnesota: 0. Illinois: 0. Wisconsin: 0. Penn State: 0. Purdue: 0. UCLA: 0. Rutgers: 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. Miami: 2 by 8.3. Texas: 2 by 8.3. Ohio: 3 by 12.5. Washington: 1 by 4.2. Minnesota: 2 by 8.3. Illinois: 2 by 8.3. Wisconsin: 1 by 4.2. Penn State: 2 by 8.3. Purdue: 1 by 4.2. UCLA: 1 by 4.2. Rutgers: 3 by 12.5
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Wins0 · Games = 10 · +0 vs Losses
Losses0 · Games = 1 · +0 vs Wins
Game Log
Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.
11 games
Featured metric
Havoc Plays
Top game by takeover score
Rutgers
Best efficiency game
12.5 vs Rutgers
| Result | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thu 1/1 | vs Miami | L 14-24 | 2 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 11/22 | vs Rutgers | W 42-9 | 3 | 2 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sun 11/16 | vs UCLA | W 48-10 | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 11/8 | @ Purdue | W 34-10 | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 11/1 | vs Penn State | W 38-14 | 2 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 10/18 | @ Wisconsin | W 34-0 | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 10/11 | @ Illinois | W 34-16 | 2 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 10/4 | vs Minnesota | W 42-3 | 2 | 2 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 9/27 | @ Washington | W 24-6 | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 9/13 | vs Ohio | W 37-9 | 3 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 8/30 | vs Texas | W 14-7 | 2 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
Player Story
Will Smith Jr. story
Will Smith Jr. built his college career from 2023 through 2025 as a defensive lineman from Dublin, OH wearing No. 53, spending time with Ohio State. The clearest part of Will Smith Jr.'s career was his defensive production: 21 tackles across 12 career games in the available record. That gives Will Smith Jr.'s career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.
Career Arc
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Ohio State
2023-2025
Opening stop
Season Value Progression
2023202420252025
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 Regular Season | Ohio State | 0 | — | — | — |
| 2024 Regular Season | Ohio State | 0 | 4.2 | 0.8 | 0 |
| 2025 Postseason | Ohio State | 0 | 7.6 | 1.6 | 0 |
| 2025 Regular Season | Ohio State | 0 | 7.6 | 1.6 | 0 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
vs No. 72 Rutgers
Week 13 · W 42-9 · Conference game
Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
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Havoc Plays
11.9 takeover
0 disruption/tackle impact with 11.9 takeover score.
#2
vs No. 84 Ohio
Week 3 · W 37-9
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Havoc Plays
11.1 takeover
Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 11.1 takeover score.
#3
vs No. 70 Minnesota
Week 6 · W 42-3 · Conference game
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Havoc Plays
8 takeover
Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 8 takeover score.
#4
@ No. 24 Illinois
Week 7 · W 34-16 · Conference game · Ranked opponent
0
Havoc Plays
7.2 takeover
Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 7.2 takeover score.
#5
vs No. 9 Miami
Week 1 · L 14-24 · Postseason · Ranked opponent
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 Postseason · Ohio State
0 primary output · 7.6 efficiency · 1.6 usage
40.3
#2
2025 Regular Season · Ohio State
40.3
0 primary · 7.6 efficiency · 1.6 usage
#3
2024 Regular Season · Ohio State
37
0 primary · 4.2 efficiency · 0.8 usage
Milestones
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Impact games
0
Splash games
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10+ tackle games
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