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Player Dossier
2012-2016Texas State
Stephen Smith
LB • 6'3" • Missouri City, TX, USA
Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile
Stephen Smith shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 8.9 disruption score.
Impact Production
23
Developing production for a linebacker
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Reliability
20
Sporadic game-to-game production
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Star Power
33
Limited ceiling signals so far
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Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2016 Regular Season · Texas State
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 1
- Unique Seasons
- 5
- Program Path
- Texas State
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Louisiana
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- Committed To
- Texas State
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2012
Stephen Smith, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2016 Regular Season · Texas State. Stephen Smith shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 8.9 disruption score.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Tackles
- 8
- TFL
- 2
Quick Answers
Stephen Smith quick answers
- Latest team and position
- Texas State · LB
- Career Tackles
- 8
- Tracked sample
- 5 unique seasons · 5 entries · 6 games
- Best season
- 2016 Regular Season · Texas State
- Top game
- Louisiana
- Recruit profile
- 2-star · Dulles · Texas State
- High school pipeline
- Dulles · 13 FBS recruits · 1 drafted player
- Latest roster
- No. 40 · Class 2016
- 2016 Tackles rank
- 8 tackles · LB 718th (top 70%) · Sun Belt 252nd (top 52%) · National 2,951st (top 53%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Tackles | TFL | Sacks | QB Hur | PD | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 Regular Season | Texas State | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | - |
| 2013 Regular Season | Texas State | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | - |
| 2014 Regular Season | Texas State | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | - |
| 2015 Regular Season | Texas State | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | - |
| 2016 Regular Season | Texas State | 6 | 8 | 2 | 0 | - | - | 0 | 36.6 |
Related Context
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Stephen Smith played LB for Texas State. Across 5 tracked seasons, Stephen Smith recorded 8 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2016 with Texas State.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2016 Regular Season
Texas State paired 2 primary output with 8.9 efficiency.
Supporting note
2016 Regular Season role shape
impact-led usage with 8.9 efficiency.
Supporting note
Career value is trending up
2016 Regular Season improved on the prior stop by season value score.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: Louisiana
Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.
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2016 Regular Season · Texas State
Games
6
Havoc Plays / G
0.3
Efficiency
8.9
Usage
3.2
Consistency
11.1
Best Game by takeover score
Louisiana
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. Arkansas: 0. Houston: 0. Incarnate Word: 0. UL Monroe: 0. Louisiana: 1. Arkansas State: 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. Arkansas: 1 by 4.2. Houston: 2 by 8.3. Incarnate Word: 1 by 4.2. UL Monroe: 1 by 4.2. Louisiana: 1 by 14.2. Arkansas State: 2 by 18.3
Split Comparison
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Wins0 · Games = 1 · -0.4 vs Losses
Losses0.4 · Games = 5 · +0.4 vs Wins
Game Log
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6 games
Featured metric
Havoc Plays
Top game by takeover score
Louisiana
Best efficiency game
18.3 vs Arkansas State
Career Arc
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Texas State
2012-2016
Opening stop
Season Value Progression
20122013201420152016
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 Regular Season | Texas State | 0 | — | — | — |
| 2013 Regular Season | Texas State | 0 | — | — | 0 |
| 2014 Regular Season | Texas State | 0 | — | — | 0 |
| 2015 Regular Season | Texas State | 0 | — | — | 0 |
| 2016 Regular Season | Texas State | 2 | 8.9 | 3.2 | 2 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
vs Louisiana
Week 8 · L 3-27 · Conference game
Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1
Havoc Plays
63.1 takeover
1 disruption/tackle impact with 63.1 takeover score.
#2
vs Arkansas State
Week 14 · L 14-36 · Conference game
1
Havoc Plays
58.6 takeover
Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1 disruption/tackle impact with 58.6 takeover score.
#3
vs Houston
Week 4 · L 3-64
0
Havoc Plays
5.8 takeover
Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 5.8 takeover score.
#4
vs Incarnate Word
Week 5 · W 48-17
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
@ Arkansas
Week 3 · L 3-42
0
Havoc Plays
3.1 takeover
Loss 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
2016 Regular Season · Texas State
2 primary output · 8.9 efficiency · 3.2 usage
36.6
#2
2012 Regular Season · Texas State
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0 primary · — efficiency · — usage
#3
2013 Regular Season · Texas State
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0 primary · — efficiency · — usage
Milestones
1
Impact games
0
Splash games
0
10+ tackle games
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