Player Dossier

2023-2025

Iowa State

Cam Smith

DB • 5'11" • 210 lbs • Austintown, OH, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Cam Smith shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 9.5 disruption score.

Usage / Role

8%

Rotational defensive role

lowfeatured

Impact Production

23

Developing production for a defensive back

lowelite

Reliability

14

Sporadic game-to-game production

lowhigh

Star Power

34

Limited ceiling signals so far

limitedstar

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Iowa State

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
3
Program Path
Iowa State
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Arkansas State
3★

Recruit Profile

Class 2023 · Rating 0.8525

Fitch · Youngstown, OH

Committed To
Iowa State
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2023

Cam Smith, DB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Iowa State. Cam Smith shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 9.5 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
19
TFL
0.5
Sacks
0.5

Quick Answers

Cam Smith quick answers

Latest team and position
Iowa State · DB
Career Tackles
19
Tracked sample
3 unique seasons · 3 entries · 12 games
Best season
2024 Regular Season · Iowa State
Top game
Arkansas State
Recruit profile
3-star · Fitch · Iowa State
High school pipeline
Fitch · 12 FBS recruits · 1 drafted player
Latest roster
No. 13 · Junior
2025 Tackles rank
9 tackles · DB 591st (top 61%) · Big 12 359th (top 49%) · National 3,004th (top 49%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2023 Regular SeasonIowa State11-0--037
2024 Regular SeasonIowa State69-0--038.7
2025 Regular SeasonIowa State590.50.5--033.6

Related Context

Cam Smith played DB for Iowa State. Across 3 tracked seasons, Cam Smith recorded 19 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Iowa State.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2024 Regular Season

Iowa State paired 0 primary output with 6.3 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 9.5 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value cooled off

2025 Regular Season fell back from the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Arkansas State

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

Analysis workspace

Season Workbench

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Season Explorer

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2025 Regular Season · Iowa State

Games

5

Havoc Plays / G

0.2

Efficiency

9.5

Usage

2.2

Consistency

6.7

Best Game by takeover score

Arkansas State

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Iowa: 0. Arkansas State: 1. Arizona: 0. BYU: 0. TCU: 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. Iowa: 4 by 16.7. Arkansas State: 1 by 14.2. Arizona: 1 by 4.2. BYU: 1 by 4.2. TCU: 2 by 8.3

Split Comparison

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

Wins0.3 · Games = 4 · +0.3 vs Losses
Losses0 · Games = 1 · -0.3 vs Wins

Game Log

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

5 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Arkansas State

Best efficiency game

16.7 vs Iowa

Result
Sat 11/8@ TCUW 20-1720000
Sat 10/25vs BYUL 27-4111000
Sat 9/27vs ArizonaW 39-1411000
Sat 9/13@ Arkansas StateW 24-16100.500.500
Sat 9/6vs IowaW 16-1343000

Career Arc

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

  1. 1

    Iowa State

    2023-2025

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

202320242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2023 Regular SeasonIowa State04.20.8
2024 Regular SeasonIowa State06.31.20
2025 Regular SeasonIowa State19.52.21

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ No. 100 Arkansas State

Week 3 · W 24-16

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1

Havoc Plays

51.7 takeover

1 disruption/tackle impact with 51.7 takeover score.

#2

vs No. 12 Iowa

Week 2 · W 16-13 · Ranked opponent

0

Havoc Plays

14.2 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 14.2 takeover score.

#3

@ Iowa

Week 2 · W 20-19

0

Havoc Plays

10.6 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 10.6 takeover score.

#4

vs North Dakota

Week 1 · W 21-3

0

Havoc Plays

6.4 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 6.4 takeover score.

#5

@ No. 37 TCU

Week 11 · W 20-17 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

6.1 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 6.1 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2024 Regular Season · Iowa State

0 primary output · 6.3 efficiency · 1.2 usage

38.7

#2

2023 Regular Season · Iowa State

37

0 primary · 4.2 efficiency · 0.8 usage

#3

2025 Regular Season · Iowa State

33.6

1 primary · 9.5 efficiency · 2.2 usage

Milestones

0

Impact games

0

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games