5′11″ · 198 lb · Marietta, GA · Walton
D.J. Smith: DB · South Carolina · #24.
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D.J. Smith
Moves between deep coverage and the slot. Second year in the South Carolina secondary. On tape: 8 tackles against Texas A&M, Week 5, 2017.
Play style
Moves between deep coverage and the slot — the modern positionless DB.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
50 tackles. 4 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 1.5 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.
No outlet on our list has written about him by name this season.
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| Season | Team | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | South Carolina | 50 | 37 | 1.5 | 0.0 | 4 | -- |
| 2016 | South Carolina | 79 | 59 | 3.0 | 0.0 | -- | 1 |
| Career | 129 | 96 | 4.5 | 0.0 | 4 | 1 |
Game log · Week-by-week
2017 season · 12 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 35-28vs NC State | 7 | 6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 3 | |
| Wk 2 | W 31-13@ Missouri | 4 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | L 13-23vs Kentucky | 6 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | W 17-16vs Louisiana Tech | 3 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | L 17-24@ Texas A&M | 8 | 6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 8 tackles |
| Wk 6 | W 48-22vs Arkansas | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | W 15-9@ Tennessee | 4 | 2 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | W 34-27vs Vanderbilt | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | L 10-24@ No. 2 Georgia | 6 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | W 31-10vs Wofford | 2 | 1 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | L 10-34vs No. 4 Clemson | 3 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
 Bowl | W 26-19vs Michigan | 4 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 50 | 37 | 1.5 | 0.0 | — | 4 |
Week 1 · 2017
W 35-28
vs NC State · neutral site
7 tackles · 3 pass breakups · 6 solo tackles
Edged out NC State at a neutral site in a shootout.
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
PD rate
8%4 pass breakupsTackle volume
50tackles this seasonTFL rate
3%2 TFL50 tackles · 1.5 for loss · 4 pass breakups.
2 seasons under Will Muschamp — 15-11 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2017 season · 12 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 2.8 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.2 |
| Road4g | 5.5 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-78g | 4.6 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.4 |
| Weeks 8+4g | 3.2 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.2 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Will Muschamp
Pass share
50.1%
395 pass / 394 run
Plays / game
60.7
13 games
Team sack rate
6.6%
437 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Balanced, slow tempo.
Player standing · 2017
About as many tackles a game as a typical FBS defensive back who plays every week.
How it ended
Two seasons at South Carolina, 129 tackles — his college career is complete.
His career
Coaching lineage · 2014–2017
3 coachesPlayed under 3 different head coaches: Steve Spurrier, Shawn Elliott, and Will Muschamp. Multi-era developmental context.
