Dashone Smith: DB · UTEP · #21.
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Dashone Smith
Moves between deep coverage and the slot. Second year in the same secondary at UTEP. One game to point at: 8 tackles against Army — Week 3, 2016.
Play style
Moves between deep coverage and the slot — the modern positionless DB.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
53 tackles. 3 passes defended. 2 interceptions. 0 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 this player by name this season.
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There is no official box score for these seasons, so this sack count comes from the play-by-play.
Each sack is credited to the player named on the play, and a sack shared by two players counts as half for each. We checked the same method against the official box scores for 2016 to 2019: it lands within half a sack for about 9 in 10 players. Tackles and passes defended are not shown for these seasons because the same check does not hold for them. Source: SportsDataverse play data.
Game log · Week-by-week
2016 season · 12 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 38-22vs New Mexico State | 4 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 2 | |
| Wk 2 | L 7-41@ No. 11 Texas | 4 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | L 14-66vs Army | 8 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 8 tackles |
| Wk 4 | L 7-34vs Southern Miss | 4 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | L 7-28@ Louisiana Tech | 5 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 6 | L 21-35vs Florida International | 6 | 5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | W 52-49@ UTSA | 3 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | L 21-31vs Old Dominion | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | W 42-10vs Houston Christian | 6 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | L 31-35@ Florida Atlantic | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | L 24-44@ Rice | 7 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | W 52-24vs North Texas | 4 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 53 | 25 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2 | 3 |
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
PD rate
6%3 pass breakupsInterceptions
2interceptionsTackle volume
53tackles this seasonTFL rate
0%0 TFL53 tackles · 3 pass breakups · 2 interceptions.
2 seasons under Sean Kugler — 9-15 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2016 season · 12 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home7g | 4.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 |
| Road5g | 4.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 5.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.5 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 3.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Sean Kugler
Pass share
44.9%
327 pass / 401 run
Plays / game
60.7
12 games
Team sack rate
6.0%
331 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-leaning, slow tempo.
Player standing · 2016
About as many tackles a game as a typical FBS defensive back who plays every week.
How it ended
Two seasons at UTEP, 53 tackles — the college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2012–2016
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Mike Price → Sean Kugler. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
