Cameron Smith is a defensive back at Marshall who has not played in Marshall's 8 games this season; the last season with a stat line was 2025.
Marshall lists 31 defensive backs this season.
Marshall is 5-3. Next: at Georgia Southern, Sat Nov 7.
Smith hits like a linebacker and still takes the ball away. The four seasons span two programs and two head coaches: Chris Creighton and Tony Gibson. A game that shows it: 10 tackles against App State — Week 13, 2025.
Play style
Hits like a linebacker and still takes the ball away.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
66 tackles. 8 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 5 TFL.
Counts only, never a rate — splash-event sample sizes this small (interceptions, pass breakups, TFL) are noise as a rate and signal only as a tally.
Closest statistical matches, adjusted for opponent strength.
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| Season | Team | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Marshall | 66 | 38 | 5.0 | 2.0 | 8 | -- |
| 2023 | Eastern Michigan | 44 | 23 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 2 | 1 |
| 2022 | Eastern Michigan | 23 | 17 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 | -- |
| 2021 | Eastern Michigan | 4 | -- | 0.0 | 0.0 | -- | -- |
| Career | 137 | 78 | 6.0 | 2.0 | 11 | 1 |
Game log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 11 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 7-45@ No. 5 Georgia | 7 | 7 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | L 20-21vs Missouri State | 5 | 3 | 1.5 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 3 | W 38-7vs Eastern Kentucky | 3 | 2 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | W 42-28@ Middle Tennessee | 4 | 3 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 2 | |
| Wk 5 | L 51-54@ Louisiana | 5 | 3 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 7 | W 48-24vs Old Dominion | 6 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 8 | W 40-37vs Texas State | 7 | 5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 11 | L 23-35vs James Madison | 6 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 12 | W 30-18@ Georgia State | 4 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 13 | L 24-26@ App State | 10 | 6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 10 tackles |
| Wk 14 | L 19-24vs Georgia Southern | 9 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 66 | 38 | 5.0 | 2.0 | — | 8 |
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
PD rate
12%8 pass breakupsTackle volume
66tackles this seasonTFL rate
8%5 TFL66 tackles · 5 for loss · 2 sacks · 8 pass breakups.
Splits · Per-game
2025 season · 11 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 6.0 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.7 |
| Road5g | 6.0 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.8 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 5.0 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 0.8 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 7.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.6 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Tony Gibson
Pass share
40.4%
335 pass / 495 run
Plays / game
69.2
12 games
Team sack rate
4.7%
362 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Player standing · 2025
66 tackles in 11 games, more tackles a game than most FBS defensive backs who play every week.
Recognition
Production · CFB Zeitgeist Score
Three-star recruit. Now #72 at the position.
2026 outlook
In the mix for All-Sun Belt
Based on 2025: #7 of 30 Sun Belt DBs
A base rate for the rank, not a forecast of this player: 35% of returning players who ranked #4–10 at their position in their conference made an all-conference team the next season (95% confidence interval 31–38%).
Four or fewer games in the first season, then ten or more.
Coaching lineage · 2021–2026
2 coachesPlayed for 2 head coaches at 2 schools: Chris Creighton and Tony Gibson.
