Player Dossier

2024-2025

Penn State

Corey Smith

RB • 5'10" • 193 lbs • Milwaukee, WI, USA

Balanced backfield optionSteady chain mover

Corey Smith leans balanced backfield option traits and 23.4 efficiency.

Usage / Role

35%

Rotational offensive role

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Impact Production

9

Developing production for a back

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Reliability

15

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

21

Limited ceiling signals so far

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2024 Postseason · Penn State

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
2
Program Path
Penn State
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Washington
4★

Recruit Profile

Class 2024 · Rating 0.8988

Catholic Memorial · Waukesha, WI

Committed To
Penn State
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2024

Corey Smith, RB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2024 Postseason · Penn State. Corey Smith leans balanced backfield option traits and 23.4 efficiency.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Scrimmage yards
180
Rushing yards
182

Quick Answers

Corey Smith quick answers

Latest team and position
Penn State · RB
Career Scrimmage Yards
180
Tracked sample
2 unique seasons · 4 entries · 10 games
Best season
2024 Postseason · Penn State
Top game
Washington
Recruit profile
4-star · Catholic Memorial · Penn State
High school pipeline
Catholic Memorial · 7 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 24 · Freshman
2025 Scrimmage yards rank
30 scrimmage yards · RB 599th (top 82%) · Big Ten 250th (top 73%) · National 2,029th (top 74%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesScrimmageRush YdsRec YdsTDOverall
2024 PostseasonPenn State4660053.9
2024 Regular SeasonPenn State4144146-2053.9
2025 PostseasonPenn State617170016.2
2025 Regular SeasonPenn State613130016.2

Related Context

Transfer Portal History

Matched portal movement

SeasonPathMovementValueDate
2026Penn State to ToledoP4 to G5/FCS77.5Jan 17, 2026

Corey Smith played RB for Penn State. Across 2 tracked seasons, Corey Smith recorded 182 rushing yards and -2 receiving yards. His top tracked season came in 2024 with Penn State.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2024 Postseason

Penn State paired 150 primary output with 47.4 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Postseason role shape

backfield-heavy usage with 23.4 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: Clemson

Win with 17 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

Analysis workspace

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2025 Postseason · Penn State

Games

6

Scrimmage Yards / G

5

Efficiency

23.4

Usage

3.6

Consistency

11.1

Best Game by takeover score

Clemson

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Clemson: 17. Nevada: 13. UCLA: 0. Northwestern: 0. Iowa: 0. Ohio 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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Split Comparison

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Wins15 · Games = 2 · +15 vs Losses
Losses0 · Games = 4 · -15 vs Wins

Game Log

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

6 games

Featured metric

Scrimmage Yards

Top game by takeover score

Clemson

Best efficiency game

27.1 vs Nevada

Result
Sat 12/27@ ClemsonW 22-109171.9001.9
Sat 11/1@ Ohio StateL 14-38
Sat 10/18@ IowaL 24-25
Sat 10/11vs NorthwesternL 21-22
Sat 10/4@ UCLAL 37-42
Sat 8/30vs NevadaW 46-115132.6002.6

Career Arc

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

  1. 1

    Penn State

    2024-2025

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

2024202420252025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2024 PostseasonPenn State15047.49.7
2024 Regular SeasonPenn State15047.49.70
2025 PostseasonPenn State3023.43.6-120
2025 Regular SeasonPenn State3023.43.60

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs Washington

Week 11 · W 35-6 · Conference game

Win with 95 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

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Scrimmage Yards

74.6 takeover

95 scrimmage yards and 8.3 usage.

#2

@ No. 34 Clemson

Week 1 · W 22-10 · Postseason

17

Scrimmage Yards

53.3 takeover

Win with 17 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

17 scrimmage yards and 14.1 usage.

#3

@ Purdue

Week 12 · W 49-10 · Conference game

37

Scrimmage Yards

42.7 takeover

Win with 37 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

37 scrimmage yards and 14.3 usage.

#4

vs No. 116 Nevada

Week 1 · W 46-11

13

Scrimmage Yards

41.9 takeover

Win with 13 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

13 scrimmage yards and 7.7 usage.

#5

vs Maryland

Week 14 · W 44-7 · Conference game

12

Scrimmage Yards

21.1 takeover

Win with 12 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.

12 scrimmage yards and 8.7 usage.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2024 Postseason · Penn State

150 primary output · 47.4 efficiency · 9.7 usage

53.9

#2

2024 Regular Season · Penn State

53.9

150 primary · 47.4 efficiency · 9.7 usage

#3

2025 Postseason · Penn State

16.2

30 primary · 23.4 efficiency · 3.6 usage

Milestones

0

100+ rush yards

0

150+ scrimmage yards

0

2+ TD games