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Player Dossier
2024-2025Western Kentucky
Zach Smith
LB • 6'0" • 220 lbs • Red Oak, TX, USA
Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile
Zach Smith shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 7 disruption score.
Impact Production
25
Developing production for a linebacker
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Reliability
15
Sporadic game-to-game production
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Star Power
28
Limited ceiling signals so far
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Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2025 Postseason · Western Kentucky
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 2
- Unique Seasons
- 2
- Program Path
- SMU • Western Kentucky
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Southern Miss
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- Committed To
- SMU
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2024
Zach Smith, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Postseason · Western Kentucky. Zach Smith shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 7 disruption score.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Tackles
- 6
- QB hurries
- 1
Quick Answers
Zach Smith quick answers
- Latest team and position
- Western Kentucky · LB
- Career Tackles
- 6
- Tracked sample
- 2 unique seasons · 3 entries · 5 games
- Best season
- 2025 Postseason · Western Kentucky
- Top game
- Southern Miss
- Recruit profile
- 3-star · Red Oak · SMU
- High school pipeline
- Red Oak · 12 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
- Latest roster
- No. 20 · Freshman
- 2025 Tackles rank
- 6 tackles · LB 899th (top 71%) · Conference USA 316th (top 58%) · National 3,545th (top 58%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Tackles | TFL | Sacks | QB Hur | PD | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 Regular Season | SMU | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | - |
| 2025 Postseason | Western Kentucky | 5 | 0 | - | 0 | 1 | - | 0 | 31.6 |
| 2025 Regular Season | Western Kentucky | 5 | 6 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | 31.6 |
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Transfer Portal History
Matched portal movement
| Season | Path | Movement | Value | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | SMU to Western Kentucky | P4 to G5/FCS | 77.7 | May 12, 2025 |
Zach Smith played LB for SMU and Western Kentucky. Across 2 tracked seasons, Zach Smith recorded 6 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Western Kentucky.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2025 Postseason
Western Kentucky paired 1 primary output with 7 efficiency.
Supporting note
2025 Postseason role shape
impact-led usage with 7 efficiency.
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Career value stayed steady
2025 Regular Season tracked close to the prior stop by season value score.
Supporting note
Multi-stop career journey
Production spans 2 team stops, with role shifts visible across SMU, Western Kentucky.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: Southern Miss
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 · Western Kentucky
Games
5
Havoc Plays / G
0.2
Efficiency
7
Usage
1.5
Consistency
6.7
Best Game by takeover score
Southern Miss
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. Southern Miss: 1. North Alabama: 0. Toledo: 0. Delaware: 0. New Mexico 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.
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Volume on the x-axis, quality on the y-axis.
Volume versus efficiency scatter chart. Southern Miss: 0 by 10. North Alabama: 1 by 4.2. Toledo: 3 by 12.5. Delaware: 1 by 4.2. New Mexico State: 1 by 4.2
Split Comparison
Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.
Wins0.3 · Games = 4 · +0.3 vs Losses
Losses0 · Games = 1 · -0.3 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
Southern Miss
Best efficiency game
12.5 vs Toledo
Career Arc
Track team changes, role shifts, and season-to-season movement.
- 1
SMU
2024
Opening stop
- 2
Western Kentucky
2025
Final stop
Season Value Progression
202420252025
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 Regular Season | SMU | 0 | — | — | — |
| 2025 Postseason | Western Kentucky | 1 | 7 | 1.5 | 1 |
| 2025 Regular Season | Western Kentucky | 1 | 7 | 1.5 | 0 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
@ No. 94 Southern Miss
Week 1 · W 27-16 · Postseason
Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1
Havoc Plays
45.3 takeover
1 disruption/tackle impact with 45.3 takeover score.
#2
@ No. 48 Toledo
Week 2 · L 21-45
0
Havoc Plays
10.3 takeover
Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 10.3 takeover score.
#3
vs No. 123 New Mexico State
Week 10 · W 35-16 · Conference game
0
Havoc Plays
4.2 takeover
Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 4.2 takeover score.
#4
vs North Alabama
Week 1 · W 55-6
0
Havoc Plays
3.6 takeover
Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.6 takeover score.
#5
@ No. 109 Delaware
Week 6 · W 27-24 · Conference game
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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 Postseason · Western Kentucky
1 primary output · 7 efficiency · 1.5 usage
31.6
#2
2025 Regular Season · Western Kentucky
31.6
1 primary · 7 efficiency · 1.5 usage
#3
2024 Regular Season · SMU
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0 primary · — efficiency · — usage
Milestones
0
Impact games
0
Splash games
0
10+ tackle games
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