Player Dossier

2024-2025

Kentucky

Jaden Smith

DB • 6'3" • 208 lbs • Charlotte, NC, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Jaden Smith shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 9.5 disruption score.

Usage / Role

8%

Rotational defensive role

lowfeatured

Impact Production

18

Developing production for a defensive back

lowelite

Reliability

8

Sporadic game-to-game production

lowhigh

Star Power

29

Limited ceiling signals so far

limitedstar

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Kentucky

2425

Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
2
Program Path
Kentucky
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Toledo
4★

Recruit Profile

Class 2024 · Rating 0.9087

West Charlotte · Charlotte, NC

Committed To
Kentucky
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2024

Jaden Smith, DB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Kentucky. Jaden Smith shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 9.5 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
9
QB hurries
1

Quick Answers

Jaden Smith quick answers

Latest team and position
Kentucky · DB
Career Tackles
9
Tracked sample
2 unique seasons · 2 entries · 5 games
Best season
2025 Regular Season · Kentucky
Top game
Toledo
Recruit profile
4-star · West Charlotte · Kentucky
High school pipeline
West Charlotte · 9 FBS recruits · 1 drafted player
Latest roster
No. 24 · Freshman
2025 Tackles rank
9 tackles · DB 598th (top 62%) · SEC 359th (top 48%) · National 3,032nd (top 49%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2024 Regular SeasonKentucky00-0--0-
2025 Regular SeasonKentucky59-01-033.4

Related Context

Jaden Smith played DB for Kentucky. Across 2 tracked seasons, Jaden Smith recorded 9 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Kentucky.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season

Kentucky paired 1 primary output with 9.5 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 9.5 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: Toledo

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 Regular Season · Kentucky

Games

5

Havoc Plays / G

0.2

Efficiency

9.5

Usage

2.1

Consistency

6.7

Best Game by takeover score

Toledo

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Toledo: 1. Ole Miss: 0. Eastern Michigan: 0. South Carolina: 0. Tennessee: 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. Toledo: 1 by 14.2. Ole Miss: 2 by 8.3. Eastern Michigan: 3 by 12.5. South Carolina: 2 by 8.3. Tennessee: 1 by 4.2

Split Comparison

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

Wins0.5 · Games = 2 · +0.5 vs Losses
Losses0 · Games = 3 · -0.5 vs Wins

Game Log

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5 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Toledo

Best efficiency game

14.2 vs Toledo

Result
Sat 10/25vs TennesseeL 34-5611000
Sat 9/27@ South CarolinaL 13-3521000
Sat 9/13vs Eastern MichiganW 48-2331000
Sat 9/6vs Ole MissL 23-3021000
Sat 8/30vs ToledoW 24-1610000

Career Arc

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    Kentucky

    2024-2025

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

20242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2024 Regular SeasonKentucky0
2025 Regular SeasonKentucky19.52.11

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs No. 48 Toledo

Week 1 · W 24-16

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1

Havoc Plays

50 takeover

1 disruption/tackle impact with 50 takeover score.

#2

vs No. 119 Eastern Michigan

Week 3 · W 48-23

0

Havoc Plays

10.6 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 10.6 takeover score.

#3

@ No. 49 South Carolina

Week 5 · L 13-35 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

6.7 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 6.7 takeover score.

#4

vs No. 7 Ole Miss

Week 2 · L 23-30 · Conference game · Ranked opponent

0

Havoc Plays

6.4 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 6.4 takeover score.

#5

vs No. 19 Tennessee

Week 9 · L 34-56 · Conference game · Ranked opponent

0

Havoc Plays

4.2 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 4.2 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2025 Regular Season · Kentucky

1 primary output · 9.5 efficiency · 2.1 usage

33.4

#2

2024 Regular Season · Kentucky

0 primary · efficiency · usage

Milestones

0

Impact games

0

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games