Usage / Role
51%
Regular defensive contributor
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Player Dossier
2024-2025Purdue
Smiley Bradford
DB • 6'0" • 195 lbs • St. Louis, MO, USA
Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile
Smiley Bradford shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 24.1 disruption score.
Impact Production
65
Solid production for a defensive back
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Reliability
63
Reliable weekly contributor
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Star Power
74
High-upside career profile
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Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Purdue
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 1
- Unique Seasons
- 2
- Program Path
- Purdue
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: USC
Player Story
Smiley Bradford built his college career from 2024 through 2025 as a defensive back from St. Louis, MO wearing No. 1, spending time with Purdue. The clearest part of Smiley Bradford's career was his defensive...
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- Committed To
- Purdue
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2024
Smiley Bradford, DB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Purdue. Smiley Bradford shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 24.1 disruption score.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Tackles
- 47
- TFL
- 5
- QB hurries
- 2
- Passes defended
- 6
Quick Answers
Smiley Bradford quick answers
- Latest team and position
- Purdue · DB
- Career Tackles
- 47
- Tracked sample
- 2 unique seasons · 2 entries · 16 games
- Best season
- 2025 Regular Season · Purdue
- Top game
- USC
- Recruit profile
- 3-star · East St. Louis · Purdue
- High school pipeline
- East St. Louis · 40 FBS recruits · 4 drafted players
- Latest roster
- No. 1 · Sophomore
- 2025 Tackles rank
- 30 tackles · DB 313th (top 33%) · Big Ten 168th (top 22%) · National 1,409th (top 23%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Tackles | TFL | Sacks | QB Hur | PD | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 Regular Season | Purdue | 5 | 17 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | 46.1 |
| 2025 Regular Season | Purdue | 11 | 30 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 56.5 |
Related Context
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Smiley Bradford played DB for Purdue. Across 2 tracked seasons, Smiley Bradford recorded 47 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Purdue.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season
Purdue paired 14 primary output with 24.1 efficiency.
Supporting note
2025 Regular Season role shape
impact-led usage with 24.1 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: USC
Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 90.9th percentile of the selected season.
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2025 Regular Season · Purdue
Games
11
Havoc Plays / G
1.3
Efficiency
24.1
Usage
6.3
Consistency
49.1
Best Game by takeover score
USC
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. Southern Illinois: 2. USC: 2. Notre Dame: 1. Illinois: 0. Minnesota: 2. Northwestern: 3. Rutgers: 1. Michigan: 1. Ohio State: 0. Washington: 1. Indiana: 1
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 Illinois: 3 by 32.5. USC: 4 by 36.7. Notre Dame: 4 by 26.7. Illinois: 1 by 4.2. Minnesota: 2 by 28.3. Northwestern: 0 by 30. Rutgers: 7 by 39.2. Michigan: 3 by 22.5. Ohio State: 3 by 12.5. Washington: 3 by 22.5. Indiana: 0 by 10
Split Comparison
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Wins2 · Games = 1 · +0.8 vs Losses
Losses1.2 · Games = 10 · -0.8 vs Wins
Game Log
Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.
11 games
Featured metric
Havoc Plays
Top game by takeover score
USC
Best efficiency game
39.2 vs Rutgers
| Result | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sat 11/29 | vs Indiana | L 3-56 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 1 | — | — |
| Sun 11/16 | @ Washington | L 13-49 | 3 | 3 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 11/8 | vs Ohio State | L 10-34 | 3 | 3 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 11/1 | @ Michigan | L 16-21 | 3 | 2 | — | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 10/25 | vs Rutgers | L 24-27 | 7 | 5 | — | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 10/18 | @ NorthwesternSplash game | L 0-19 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | — | — |
| Sat 10/11 | @ MinnesotaSplash game | L 20-27 | 2 | 2 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 2 | — | — |
| Sat 10/4 | vs Illinois | L 27-43 | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 9/20 | @ Notre Dame | L 30-56 | 4 | 2 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 9/13 | vs USCSplash game | L 17-33 | 4 | 2 | — | 2 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 9/6 | vs Southern IllinoisSplash game | W 34-17 | 3 | 2 | — | 1 | 0 | — | 1 | — | — |
Player Story
Smiley Bradford story
Smiley Bradford built his college career from 2024 through 2025 as a defensive back from St. Louis, MO wearing No. 1, spending time with Purdue. The clearest part of Smiley Bradford's career was his defensive production: 47 tackles, 5 tackles for loss, 1 interception, and 6 passes defended across 16 career games in the available record. His largest box-score season came in 2025 with Purdue. Those numbers show where he fit, how often the ball or action found him, and how his role developed over time.
Defensive careers can be hard to read from one number, but Smiley Bradford's production has multiple signals. With 16 career games in the available record, his career has enough shape to show both opportunity and production across Purdue.
The arc is straightforward: Smiley Bradford moved through the depth chart, found a larger role, and turned that opportunity into production that can be understood through standard football numbers.
Career Arc
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Purdue
2024-2025
Opening stop
Season Value Progression
20242025
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 Regular Season | Purdue | 0 | 14.2 | 2.9 | — |
| 2025 Regular Season | Purdue | 14 | 24.1 | 6.3 | 14 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
vs No. 16 USC
Week 3 · L 17-33 · Conference game · Ranked opponent
Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
2
Havoc Plays
63.4 takeover
2 disruption/tackle impact with 63.4 takeover score.
#2
@ No. 51 Northwestern
Week 8 · L 0-19 · Conference game
3
Havoc Plays
57.2 takeover
Loss with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
3 disruption/tackle impact with 57.2 takeover score.
#3
vs Southern Illinois
Week 2 · W 34-17
2
Havoc Plays
56.1 takeover
Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
2 disruption/tackle impact with 56.1 takeover score.
#4
@ No. 5 Notre Dame
Week 4 · L 30-56 · Ranked opponent
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Havoc Plays
53.3 takeover
Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1 disruption/tackle impact with 53.3 takeover score.
#5
@ No. 13 Washington
Week 12 · L 13-49 · Conference game · Ranked opponent
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Havoc Plays
50 takeover
Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1 disruption/tackle impact with 50 takeover score.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2025 Regular Season · Purdue
14 primary output · 24.1 efficiency · 6.3 usage
56.5
#2
2024 Regular Season · Purdue
46.1
0 primary · 14.2 efficiency · 2.9 usage
Milestones
1
Impact games
4
Splash games
0
10+ tackle games
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