Player Dossier

2023-2025

Toledo

Sam Smith Jr.

LB • 6'4" • 223 lbs • Delta, OH, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Sam Smith Jr. shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 4.2 disruption score.

Usage / Role

2%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

7

Developing production for a linebacker

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Reliability

15

Sporadic game-to-game production

lowhigh

Star Power

15

Limited ceiling signals so far

limitedstar

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Toledo

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
3
Program Path
Toledo
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Miami (OH)

Sam Smith Jr., LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Toledo. Sam Smith Jr. shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 4.2 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
6

Quick Answers

Sam Smith Jr. quick answers

Latest team and position
Toledo · LB
Career Tackles
6
Tracked sample
3 unique seasons · 3 entries · 6 games
Best season
2024 Regular Season · Toledo
Top game
Miami (OH)
High school pipeline
Wauseon · 2 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 28 · Sophomore
2025 Tackles rank
3 tackles · LB 1,060th (top 84%) · Mid-American 410th (top 71%) · National 4,279th (top 69%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2023 Regular SeasonToledo00-0--0-
2024 Regular SeasonToledo33-0--036.9
2025 Regular SeasonToledo33-0--036.7

Related Context

Sam Smith Jr. played LB for Toledo. Across 3 tracked seasons, Sam Smith Jr. recorded 6 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2024 with Toledo.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2024 Regular Season

Toledo paired 0 primary output with 4.2 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 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: Bowling Green

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

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Season Explorer

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2025 Regular Season · Toledo

Games

3

Havoc Plays / G

0

Efficiency

4.2

Usage

0.7

Consistency

100

Best Game by takeover score

Bowling Green

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Game-by-Game Trend

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123

Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Kentucky: 0. Bowling Green: 0. Ball State: 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. Kentucky: 1 by 4.2. Bowling Green: 1 by 4.2. Ball State: 1 by 4.2

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

Bowling Green

Best efficiency game

4.2 vs Ball State

Result
Sat 11/22vs Ball StateW 38-910000
Sat 10/11@ Bowling GreenL 23-2811000
Sat 8/30@ KentuckyL 16-2410000

Career Arc

Track team changes, role shifts, and season-to-season movement.

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    Toledo

    2023-2025

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

202320242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2023 Regular SeasonToledo0
2024 Regular SeasonToledo04.20.80
2025 Regular SeasonToledo04.20.70

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs Miami (OH)

Week 6 · W 30-20 · Conference game

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0

Havoc Plays

3.9 takeover

0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.9 takeover score.

#2

@ No. 113 Bowling Green

Week 7 · L 23-28 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

3.6 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.6 takeover score.

#3

@ Northern Illinois

Week 8 · W 13-6 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

3.3 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.3 takeover score.

#4

vs Duquesne

Week 1 · W 49-10

0

Havoc Plays

3.3 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.3 takeover score.

#5

@ No. 66 Kentucky

Week 1 · L 16-24

0

Havoc Plays

3.3 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.3 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2024 Regular Season · Toledo

0 primary output · 4.2 efficiency · 0.8 usage

36.9

#2

2025 Regular Season · Toledo

36.7

0 primary · 4.2 efficiency · 0.7 usage

#3

2023 Regular Season · Toledo

0 primary · efficiency · usage

Milestones

0

Impact games

0

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games