Usage / Role
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Regular defensive contributor
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Player Dossier
2023-2025SMU
Billy Walton III
DE • 6'3" • 250 lbs • Grand Prairie, TX, USA
Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile
Billy Walton III shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 13 disruption score.
Impact Production
100
Top-tier box-score impact for an edge defender
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Reliability
100
Regular contributor with several takeover games
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Star Power
79
High-upside career profile
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Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2025 Postseason · SMU
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 2
- Unique Seasons
- 3
- Program Path
- Texas • SMU
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Arizona
Player Story
Billy Walton III built his college career from 2023 through 2025 as a defensive end from Grand Prairie, TX wearing No. 32, spending time with SMU and Texas. The clearest part of Billy Walton III's career was his...
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- Committed To
- Texas
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2023
Billy Walton III, DE. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Postseason · SMU. Billy Walton III shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 13 disruption score.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Tackles
- 16
- TFL
- 2.5
- Sacks
- 2
Quick Answers
Billy Walton III quick answers
- Latest team and position
- SMU · DE
- Career Tackles
- 16
- Tracked sample
- 3 unique seasons · 4 entries · 9 games
- Best season
- 2025 Postseason · SMU
- Top game
- Arizona
- Recruit profile
- 3-star · South Oak Cliff · Texas
- High school pipeline
- South Oak Cliff · 60 FBS recruits · 1 drafted player
- Latest roster
- No. 32 · Sophomore
- 2025 Tackles rank
- 6 tackles · DE 189th (top 67%) · ACC 428th (top 54%) · National 3,391st (top 55%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Tackles | TFL | Sacks | QB Hur | PD | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 Regular Season | Texas | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | - |
| 2024 Regular Season | SMU | 4 | 10 | 0.5 | 0 | - | - | 0 | 12.9 |
| 2025 Postseason | SMU | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 0 | 39.7 |
| 2025 Regular Season | SMU | 5 | 4 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 0 | 39.7 |
Related Context
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Billy Walton III played DE for Texas and SMU. Across 3 tracked seasons, Billy Walton III recorded 16 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2024 with SMU.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2025 Postseason
SMU paired 4 primary output with 13 efficiency.
Supporting note
2025 Postseason role shape
impact-led usage with 13 efficiency.
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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 Texas, SMU.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: Arizona
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 Postseason · SMU
Games
5
Havoc Plays / G
0.8
Efficiency
13
Usage
3.9
Consistency
13.3
Best Game by takeover score
Arizona
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. Arizona: 2. East Texas A&M: 0. Stanford: 0. Boston College: 2. Louisville: 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. Arizona: 2 by 28.3. East Texas A&M: 1 by 4.2. Stanford: 1 by 4.2. Boston College: 1 by 24.2. Louisville: 1 by 4.2
Split Comparison
Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.
First Half0.7 · Games = 3 · -0.3 vs Second Half
Second Half1 · Games = 2 · +0.3 vs First Half
Game Log
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5 games
Featured metric
Havoc Plays
Top game by takeover score
Arizona
Best efficiency game
28.3 vs Arizona
Player Story
Billy Walton III story
Billy Walton III built his college career from 2023 through 2025 as a defensive end from Grand Prairie, TX wearing No. 32, spending time with SMU and Texas. The clearest part of Billy Walton III's career was his defensive production: 16 tackles, 2.5 tackles for loss, and 2 sacks across 9 career games in the available record. That gives Billy Walton III'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.
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Texas
2023
Opening stop
- 2
SMU
2024-2025
Final stop
Season Value Progression
2023202420252025
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 Regular Season | Texas | 0 | — | — | — |
| 2024 Regular Season | SMU | 0.5 | 11.7 | 2.3 | 0.5 |
| 2025 Postseason | SMU | 4 | 13 | 3.9 | 3.5 |
| 2025 Regular Season | SMU | 4 | 13 | 3.9 | 0 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
vs No. 28 Arizona
Week 1 · W 24-19 · Postseason
Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
2
Havoc Plays
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2 disruption/tackle impact with 75 takeover score.
#2
@ No. 97 Boston College
Week 11 · W 45-13 · Conference game
2
Havoc Plays
56.4 takeover
Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
2 disruption/tackle impact with 56.4 takeover score.
#3
vs California
Week 14 · W 38-6 · Conference game
0.5
Havoc Plays
28.3 takeover
Win with 0.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0.5 disruption/tackle impact with 28.3 takeover score.
#4
vs Houston Christian
Week 1 · W 59-7
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Havoc Plays
16.4 takeover
Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 16.4 takeover score.
#5
@ Virginia
Week 13 · W 33-7 · Conference game
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Havoc Plays
10 takeover
Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 10 takeover score.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2025 Postseason · SMU
4 primary output · 13 efficiency · 3.9 usage
39.7
#2
2025 Regular Season · SMU
39.7
4 primary · 13 efficiency · 3.9 usage
#3
2024 Regular Season · SMU
12.9
0.5 primary · 11.7 efficiency · 2.3 usage
Milestones
1
Impact games
2
Splash games
0
10+ tackle games
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