Player Dossier

2024-2025

Austin Peay

Montreze Smith Jr.

LB • 5'11" • 204 lbs • Carrollton, GA, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Montreze Smith Jr. shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 24.6 disruption score.

Usage / Role

Role sample still building

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Impact Production

25

Developing production for a linebacker

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Reliability

50

Useful contributor with volatile peaks

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Star Power

54

Limited ceiling signals so far

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Austin Peay

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Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Unique Seasons
2
Program Path
Duke • Austin Peay
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Middle Tennessee

Montreze Smith Jr., LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Austin Peay. Montreze Smith Jr. shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 24.6 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
1

Quick Answers

Montreze Smith Jr. quick answers

Latest team and position
Austin Peay · LB
Career Tackles
1
Tracked sample
2 unique seasons · 2 entries · 3 games
Best season
2025 Regular Season · Austin Peay
Top game
Middle Tennessee
High school pipeline
Carrollton · 36 FBS recruits · 2 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 31 · Freshman

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2024 Regular SeasonDuke11-0--036.4
2025 Regular SeasonAustin Peay20-0--058.2

Related Context

Transfer Portal History

Matched portal movement

SeasonPathMovementValueDate
2026Unlisted to Iowa StateUnlisted to P479.1Jan 5, 2026
2025Western Kentucky to UnlistedG5/FCS to Unlisted78.4Apr 25, 2025

Montreze Smith Jr. played LB for Duke and Austin Peay. Across 2 tracked seasons, Montreze Smith Jr. recorded 1 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2024 with Duke.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season

Austin Peay paired 2 primary output with 24.6 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 24.6 efficiency.

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Career value is trending up

2025 Regular Season improved on the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Multi-stop career journey

Production spans 2 team stops, with role shifts visible across Duke, Austin Peay.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Middle Tennessee

Game with 2 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 · Austin Peay

Games

2

Havoc Plays / G

1

Efficiency

24.6

Usage

Consistency

50

Best Game by takeover score

Middle Tennessee

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Middle Tennessee: 2. Georgia: 0

Volume vs Efficiency

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Split Comparison

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First Half2 · Games = 1 · +2 vs Second Half
Second Half0 · Games = 1 · -2 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

Middle Tennessee

Best efficiency game

32.5 vs Middle Tennessee

Result
Sat 9/6@ Georgia43000
Sat 8/30@ Middle TennesseeSplash game30001

Career Arc

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

  1. 1

    Duke

    2024

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    Austin Peay

    2025

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

20242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2024 Regular SeasonDuke04.20.6
2025 Regular SeasonAustin Peay224.62

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ No. 127 Middle Tennessee

Week 1

Game with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2

Havoc Plays

66.3 takeover

2 disruption/tackle impact with 66.3 takeover score.

#2

@ No. 6 Georgia

Week 2 · Ranked opponent

0

Havoc Plays

8.4 takeover

Game with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 8.4 takeover score.

#3

vs Elon

Week 1 · W 26-3

0

Havoc Plays

3.1 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.1 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2025 Regular Season · Austin Peay

2 primary output · 24.6 efficiency · usage

58.2

#2

2024 Regular Season · Duke

36.4

0 primary · 4.2 efficiency · 0.6 usage

Milestones

1

Impact games

1

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games