Usage / Role
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Rotational offensive role
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Player Dossier
2024-2025UTEP
Shay Smith
QB • 6'2" • 215 lbs • El Paso, TX, USA
Balanced quarterback profileVolume operator
Shay Smith is a balanced quarterback profile with 7.4 usage in the latest tracked season.
Impact Production
3
Developing production for a quarterback
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Reliability
0
Sporadic game-to-game production
lowhigh
Star Power
17
Limited ceiling signals so far
limitedstar
Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · UTEP
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 1
- Unique Seasons
- 2
- Program Path
- UTEP
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Nebraska
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- Committed To
- UTEP
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2024
Shay Smith, QB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · UTEP. Shay Smith is a balanced quarterback profile with 7.4 usage in the latest tracked season.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Total offense
- 54
- Passing yards
- 34
- Rushing yards
- 20
- Touchdowns
- 2
Quick Answers
Shay Smith quick answers
- Latest team and position
- UTEP · QB
- Career Total Offense
- 54
- Tracked sample
- 2 unique seasons · 2 entries · 10 games
- Best season
- 2025 Regular Season · UTEP
- Top game
- Nebraska
- Recruit profile
- 3-star · Franklin · UTEP
- High school pipeline
- Franklin · 8 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
- Latest roster
- No. 8 · Freshman
- 2025 Total offense rank
- 44 total offense · QB 341st (top 82%) · Conference USA 76th (top 55%) · National 979th (top 61%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Total Offense | Pass Yds | Rush Yds | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 Regular Season | UTEP | 3 | 10 | 20 | -10 | 1 | 25.9 |
| 2025 Regular Season | UTEP | 7 | 44 | 14 | 30 | 1 | 47.7 |
Related Context
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Shay Smith played QB for UTEP. Across 2 tracked seasons, Shay Smith recorded 34 passing yards, 20 rushing yards, and 2 touchdowns. His top tracked season came in 2025 with UTEP.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season
UTEP paired 44 primary output with 29.9 efficiency.
Supporting note
2025 Regular Season role shape
pass-led usage with 29.9 efficiency.
Supporting note
Career value is trending up
2025 Regular Season improved on the prior stop by season value score.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: UL Monroe
Loss with 16 yards of offense and 40.7 efficiency. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.
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2025 Regular Season · UTEP
Games
7
Primary Metric / G
6.3
Efficiency
29.9
Usage
7.4
Consistency
44.4
Best Game by takeover score
UL Monroe
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. Utah State: 3. Texas: 5. UL Monroe: 16. Louisiana Tech: 6. Sam Houston: 0. Kennesaw State: 1. Delaware: 13
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. Utah State: 2 by 54.2. Texas: 2 by 25. UL Monroe: 8 by 40.7. Louisiana Tech: 2 by 30. Sam Houston: 1 by 0. Kennesaw State: 1 by 10. Delaware: 5 by 49.6
Split Comparison
Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.
Wins0 · Games = 1 · -7.3 vs Losses
Losses7.3 · Games = 6 · +7.3 vs Wins
Game Log
Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.
7 games
Featured metric
Total Offense
Top game by takeover score
UL Monroe
Best efficiency game
54.2 vs Utah State
| Result | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sat 11/29 | @ Delaware | L 31-61 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 50.0 | 0 | 0 | 49.6 | 3 | 7 | 2.30 | 0 | 4 |
| Wed 10/29 | @ Kennesaw State | L 20-33 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 10 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Wed 10/15 | @ Sam Houston | W 35-17 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sun 9/28 | vs Louisiana Tech | L 11-30 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 30 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| Sun 9/21 | vs UL Monroe | L 25-31 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 25.0 | 0 | 0 | 40.7 | 4 | 11 | 2.80 | 0 | 8 |
| Sat 9/13 | @ Texas | L 10-27 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 25 | 2 | 5 | 2.50 | 1 | 3 |
| Sat 8/30 | @ Utah State | L 16-28 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 50.0 | 0 | 0 | 54.2 | — | — | — | — | — |
Career Arc
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UTEP
2024-2025
Opening stop
Season Value Progression
20242025
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 Regular Season | UTEP | 10 | 45.7 | 6.1 | — |
| 2025 Regular Season | UTEP | 44 | 29.9 | 7.4 | 34 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
@ Nebraska
Week 1 · L 7-40
Loss with 8 yards of offense and 64.6 efficiency.
8
Total Offense
61 takeover
8 total offense with 64.6 efficiency.
#2
vs No. 131 UL Monroe
Week 4 · L 25-31
16
Total Offense
57.5 takeover
Loss with 16 yards of offense and 40.7 efficiency.
16 total offense with 40.7 efficiency.
#3
@ No. 109 Delaware
Week 14 · L 31-61 · Conference game
13
Total Offense
50.3 takeover
Loss with 13 yards of offense and 49.6 efficiency.
13 total offense with 49.6 efficiency.
#4
@ No. 79 Utah State
Week 1 · L 16-28
3
Total Offense
36.5 takeover
Loss with 3 yards of offense and 54.2 efficiency.
3 total offense with 54.2 efficiency.
#5
vs Kennesaw State
Week 11 · W 43-35 · Conference game
1
Total Offense
30 takeover
Win with 1 yards of offense and 62.5 efficiency.
1 total offense with 62.5 efficiency.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2025 Regular Season · UTEP
44 primary output · 29.9 efficiency · 7.4 usage
47.7
#2
2024 Regular Season · UTEP
25.9
10 primary · 45.7 efficiency · 6.1 usage
Milestones
0
250+ passing yards
0
300+ total offense
0
3+ TD games
2
Above avg efficiency
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