Player Dossier

2025-2025

SMU

Tyren Polley

S • 6'0" • 195 lbs • Duncanville, TX, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Tyren Polley shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 26.7 disruption score.

Usage / Role

66%

Regular defensive contributor

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Impact Production

72

High-end production for a safety

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Reliability

100

Regular contributor with several takeover games

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Star Power

57

Useful peak 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
1
Unique Seasons
1
Program Path
SMU
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Louisville

Player Story

Tyren Polley built his college career in 2025 as a safety from Duncanville, TX wearing No. 10, spending time with SMU. The clearest part of Tyren Polley's career was his defensive production: 20 tackles, 2...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2025 · Rating 0.8719

Duncanville · Duncanville, TX

Committed To
SMU
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2025

Tyren Polley, S. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Postseason · SMU. Tyren Polley shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 26.7 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
20
Passes defended
2

Quick Answers

Tyren Polley quick answers

Latest team and position
SMU · S
Career Tackles
20
Tracked sample
1 unique seasons · 2 entries · 5 games
Best season
2025 Postseason · SMU
Top game
Louisville
Recruit profile
3-star · Duncanville · SMU
High school pipeline
Duncanville · 60 FBS recruits · 2 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 10 · Freshman
2025 Tackles rank
20 tackles · S 265th (top 47%) · ACC 272nd (top 35%) · National 2,073rd (top 34%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2025 PostseasonSMU56-0-1063.7
2025 Regular SeasonSMU514-0-1063.7

Related Context

Tyren Polley played S for SMU. Across 1 tracked season, Tyren Polley recorded 20 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with SMU.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2025 Postseason

SMU paired 4 primary output with 26.7 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Postseason role shape

impact-led usage with 26.7 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: Louisville

Win with 1 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

26.7

Usage

6.2

Consistency

76.7

Best Game by takeover score

Louisville

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Arizona: 1. East Texas A&M: 1. Boston College: 1. Louisville: 1. California: 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: 6 by 35. East Texas A&M: 3 by 22.5. Boston College: 8 by 43.3. California: 3 by 12.5

Split Comparison

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

Wins1 · Games = 4 · +1 vs Losses
Losses0 · Games = 1 · -1 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

Louisville

Best efficiency game

43.3 vs Boston College

Result
Sat 1/3vs ArizonaW 24-1965001
Sun 11/30@ CaliforniaL 35-3832000
Sat 11/22vs LouisvilleW 38-61
Sat 11/8@ Boston CollegeW 45-13860010
Sun 8/31vs East Texas A&MW 42-1333001

Player Story

Tyren Polley story

Tyren Polley built his college career in 2025 as a safety from Duncanville, TX wearing No. 10, spending time with SMU. The clearest part of Tyren Polley's career was his defensive production: 20 tackles, 2 interceptions, and 2 passes defended across 5 career games in the available record. That gives Tyren Polley's career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.

Career Arc

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    SMU

    2025

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

20252025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2025 PostseasonSMU426.76.2
2025 Regular SeasonSMU426.76.20

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs No. 25 Louisville

Week 13 · W 38-6 · Conference game · Ranked opponent

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

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Havoc Plays

73.3 takeover

1 disruption/tackle impact with 73.3 takeover score.

#2

@ No. 97 Boston College

Week 11 · W 45-13 · Conference game

1

Havoc Plays

69.2 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 69.2 takeover score.

#3

vs No. 28 Arizona

Week 1 · W 24-19 · Postseason

1

Havoc Plays

58.1 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 58.1 takeover score.

#4

vs East Texas A&M

Week 1 · W 42-13

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Havoc Plays

47.5 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 47.5 takeover score.

#5

@ No. 80 California

Week 14 · L 35-38 · Conference game

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Havoc Plays

9.2 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 9.2 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2025 Postseason · SMU

4 primary output · 26.7 efficiency · 6.2 usage

63.7

#2

2025 Regular Season · SMU

63.7

4 primary · 26.7 efficiency · 6.2 usage

Milestones

2

Impact games

0

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games