Player Dossier

2022-2025

Texas Tech

Wesley Smith

LB • 5'10" • 220 lbs • Midland, TX, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Wesley Smith shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 10.5 disruption score.

Usage / Role

3%

Rotational defensive role

lowfeatured

Impact Production

18

Developing production for a linebacker

lowelite

Reliability

6

Sporadic game-to-game production

lowhigh

Star Power

25

Limited ceiling signals so far

limitedstar

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2023 Regular Season · Texas Tech

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
4
Program Path
Texas Tech
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Oregon
3★

Recruit Profile

Class 2021 · Rating 0.8381

Wagoner · Wagoner, OK

Committed To
Texas Tech
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2021

Wesley Smith, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2023 Regular Season · Texas Tech. Wesley Smith shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 10.5 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
11
TFL
1

Quick Answers

Wesley Smith quick answers

Latest team and position
Texas Tech · LB
Career Tackles
11
Tracked sample
4 unique seasons · 4 entries · 5 games
Best season
2023 Regular Season · Texas Tech
Top game
Oregon
Recruit profile
3-star · Wagoner · Texas Tech
High school pipeline
Wagoner · 5 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 40 · Junior
2025 Tackles rank
5 tackles · LB 948th (top 75%) · Big 12 444th (top 61%) · National 3,737th (top 61%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2022 Regular SeasonTexas Tech00-0--0-
2023 Regular SeasonTexas Tech2410--051.1
2024 Regular SeasonTexas Tech12-0--040.5
2025 Regular SeasonTexas Tech25-0--043.4

Related Context

Wesley Smith played LB for Texas Tech. Across 4 tracked seasons, Wesley Smith recorded 11 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Texas Tech.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2023 Regular Season

Texas Tech paired 1 primary output with 13.4 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 10.5 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: Arkansas-Pine Bluff

Win with 0 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 · Texas Tech

Games

2

Havoc Plays / G

0

Efficiency

10.5

Usage

2.4

Consistency

100

Best Game by takeover score

Arkansas-Pine Bluff

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Game-by-Game Trend

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12

Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Arkansas-Pine Bluff: 0. Kent 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.

Scatter view is hidden because this season does not have enough game-to-game variety yet.

Split Comparison

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First Half0 · Games = 1 · +0 vs Second Half
Second Half0 · Games = 1 · +0 vs First Half

Game Log

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

2 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Arkansas-Pine Bluff

Best efficiency game

16.7 vs Arkansas-Pine Bluff

Result
Sat 9/6vs Kent StateW 62-1411000
Sat 8/30vs Arkansas-Pine BluffW 67-743000

Career Arc

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

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    Texas Tech

    2022-2025

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

2022202320242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2022 Regular SeasonTexas Tech0
2023 Regular SeasonTexas Tech113.44.91
2024 Regular SeasonTexas Tech08.31.6-1
2025 Regular SeasonTexas Tech010.52.40

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs Oregon

Week 2 · L 30-38

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1

Havoc Plays

66.4 takeover

1 disruption/tackle impact with 66.4 takeover score.

#2

vs Arkansas-Pine Bluff

Week 1 · W 67-7

0

Havoc Plays

16.1 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 16.1 takeover score.

#3

vs Arizona State

Week 4 · W 30-22 · Conference game

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.

#4

vs No. 130 Kent State

Week 2 · W 62-14

0

Havoc Plays

3.9 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.9 takeover score.

#5

vs Tarleton State

Week 3 · W 41-3

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.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2023 Regular Season · Texas Tech

1 primary output · 13.4 efficiency · 4.9 usage

51.1

#2

2025 Regular Season · Texas Tech

43.4

0 primary · 10.5 efficiency · 2.4 usage

#3

2024 Regular Season · Texas Tech

40.5

0 primary · 8.3 efficiency · 1.6 usage

Milestones

1

Impact games

0

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games