Senior defensive lineman on Notre Dame's 2022 roster.
6′1″ · 310 lb · Detroit, MI
CFB Index
A single number blending on-field production (an EPA-based value lane) with box-score output for this player's position.
0-100, scaled within each position's own cohort — not directly comparable across positions.
The story
4 defensive lineman on Notre Dame's roster.
The record fills in as he plays.
His career, year by yearChris Smith
Controls the point of attack and doesn't move. The receipt: 4 tackles, 0.5 TFL against Stanford — Week 7, 2022.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
How it ended
One season at Notre Dame — his college career is complete.
Career arc
Season context · Team result + system
Where this defender ranks vs the field
Box-score production percentiles vs the position cohort
Concern: passes defended (18th percentile).
Percentiles are versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score production. There are no play-by-play efficiency bars here: CFBD's play-value model credits offensive players only, so no defensive EPA exists to rank.
Splits · Per-game
2022 season · 8 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home5g | 2.0 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Road3g | 2.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-75g | 2.2 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+3g | 1.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Marcus Freeman
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Player standing · 2022
Tackle volume for the position in rotation-piece range.
Recognition
Production · CFB Index Score
| Season | Team | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Notre Dame | 16 | 10 | 0.5 | 0.0 | -- | -- | -- |
| Career | 16 | 10 | 0.5 | 0.0 | -- | -- | -- |
Game log · Week-by-week
2022 season · 8 games
| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 10-21@ Ohio State | 3 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | W 24-17vs California | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | W 45-32@ North Carolina | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 6 | W 28-20vs BYU | 2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | L 14-16vs Stanford | 4 | 3 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 4 tackles |
| Wk 8 | W 44-21vs UNLV | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | W 41-24@ Syracuse | 2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | W 44-0vs Boston College | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 16 | 10 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 |
Play style
The heaviest frame on the interior. Sack production is intentionally not the point of this profile.
CFB Index positional classification
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
16 tackles. 0 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 0.5 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.
Player DNA
The heaviest frame on the interior. Sack production is intentionally not the point of this profile.
His 2022 production profile sits closest to Djimon Brooks’s 2021 season.
Matches Djimon on
Not enough data yet for this comparison.
As a freshman, his production profile tracks closest to Tatuo Martinson's freshman season at UNLV (2023).
Matches Tatuo on
Player DNA