#23

Dorrian Smith

Senior defensive back for Georgia Southern. 2025: 2 interceptions, 3 pass breakups, 45 tackles.

DB · Georgia Southern · Sr. · #23

5′10″ · 185 lb · Fort Valley, GA

CFB Index 58 · #199 of 544 safetiesLow confidenceReturning to Georgia Southern for 2026

How he plays

Plays like an extra linebacker near the line.

Tackles for loss: 87th percentile.

The full scouting read

The numbers

interceptions · 2025

3 PBU · 45 tackles · 6.5 TFL

Best game: 2 INT, 3 tackles, vs App State

His career numbers, season by season

The story

4 defensive back for Georgia Southern. 2025: 2 interceptions, 3 pass breakups, 45 tackles.

Signed as a 2-star recruit to Georgia Southern in 2023.

His career, year by year

Dorrian Smith

DB · Georgia Southern · Sr · #23

Plays like an extra linebacker near the line. He arrived as a 2-star recruit and has two seasons of production at Georgia Southern behind him. One game to point at: 7 tackles, 1 TFL against Southern Miss — Week 7, 2025.

Low coverage — composed from the verified record.

positional archetype classification
recruiting profile
game log

2025 snapshot

Season context · Team result + system

2 seasons under Clay Helton, all balanced offenses — 15-11 over that span.

2024Georgia Southern8-5HC: Clay Helton · Balanced

2025Georgia Southern7-6HC: Clay Helton · Balanced

Where this defender ranks vs the field

Box-score production percentiles vs the position cohort

58Quality starter #199 of 544?

Medium confidenceAscending7 metrics · season cumulative

Elite: tackles for loss (87th percentile). Strength: solo tackles (82nd percentile). Concern: qb hurries (22nd percentile).

Box-score production (7)

Tackles for loss#340 / 2975 · 87th pct

6.5

Solo tackles#515 / 2975 · 82nd pct

Passes defended#517 / 2975 · 78th pct

Tackles#729 / 2975 · 75th pct

Interceptions#114 / 817 · 75th pct

Sacks#1575 / 2975 · 24th pct

0.0

QB hurries#1662 / 2975 · 22nd pct

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 & context

Splits · Per-game

2025 season · 12 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	TKL/g	TFL/g	SACK/g	PD/g
Home6g	5.0	0.5	0.0	0.2
Road6g	2.5	0.6	0.0	0.3

First half vs Second half

	TKL/g	TFL/g	SACK/g	PD/g
Weeks 1-76g	3.0	0.7	0.0	0.3
Weeks 8+6g	4.5	0.4	0.0	0.2

Supporting cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2026 season

Head Coach

Clay Helton

Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.

Awards

Player standing · 2025

Part-time starter

Tackle volume for the position in part-time-starter range.

Recognition

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Production · CFB Index Score

58 · #199 of 544 safeties

Two-star recruit. Now #199 at the position.

2026 outlook

Outside shot for All-Sun Belt

Based on 2025: #16 of 30 Sun Belt DBs

How the All-Sun Belt estimate is computed

22% estimated, 95% confidence interval 19–25%. Base rate measured from players who finished at a comparable rank in their conference and came back the next season. It is an estimate from a small sample, not a forecast of this player.

Career stats

Season	Team
2025	Georgia Southern	45	30	6.5	3	2	--
2024	Georgia Southern	26	20	0.0	1	1	--
Career		71	50	6.5	4	3	--

Signature game

SIGNATURE GAME · Week 4 · 2025

W 45–17

vs Maine

3 TOT · 2 SOLO · 1 TFL

Dominant 28-point win at home against Maine.

With J. French — 253 yds · 1 TD · 1 INT · QBR 35.4 · 42 rush yds (6 car) · D. Cobb — 44 yds · 0 TD · 0 INT · QBR 100.0 · 8 rush yds (3 car) · 1 TD

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week

2025 season · 12 games

Box score · CFBD

Wk	Opp	TKL	SOLO	TFL	INT	PD	Note
Wk 1	L 14-42@ Fresno State	0	0	0.0	—	1
Wk 3	W 41-34vs Jacksonville State	4	3	1.0	—	1
Wk 4	W 45-17vs Maine	3	2	1.0	—	0
Wk 5	L 10-35@ James Madison	1	1	0.0	—	0
Wk 7	L 35-38vs Southern Miss	7	5	1.0	—	0	Season-high 7 tackles
Wk 8	W 41-24vs Georgia State	6	3	0.0	—	0
Wk 9	L 24-34@ Arkansas State	5	4	1.0	—	0
Wk 11	W 25-23@ App State	2	1	0.0	—	1
Wk 12	W 45-40vs Coastal Carolina	6	4	0.0	—	0
Wk 13	L 10-45vs Old Dominion	4	2	0.0	—	0
Wk 14	W 24-19@ Marshall	4	3	1.5	—	0
Bowl	W 29-10@ App State	3	2	1.0	2	0
Total		45	30	6.5	2	3

How he plays

Play style

Lives near the line of scrimmage as a de facto extra linebacker.

CFB Index positional classification

Activity vs finishing · season enumeration

What the box score actually says

12 games

45Tackles

30Solo

6.5TFL

0Sacks

3Pass def.

2INT

45 tackles. 3 passes defended. 2 interceptions. 6.5 TFL.

Week 11 PD
Week 12 INT
Week 31 PD
Week 111 PD

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.

2026 Outlook

Georgia Southern

2026 Depth chart

Projected starter

Defensive back · Georgia Southern

Returning around him

Transfer portal: -1 net (17 in / 18 out)

2026 Award watch

No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)

Georgia Southern · Last season: 7-6 · Talent rank #78 · 2026 recruiting class #89

DNA match

Player DNA

Box Safety

Lives near the line of scrimmage as a de facto extra linebacker.

His 2025 production profile sits closest to Brandon Johnson’s 2023 season.

Brandon Johnson

80%match

Duke · 2023

Wrook Brown

Houston · 2025

76%

Cale Sanders

SMU · 2024

74%

Mar'Quavious Moss

Kansas State · 2025

73%

Wendol Philord

Florida Atlantic · 2024

73%

Matches Brandon on

PD rate

TFL rate

Tackle volume

Differs from Brandon on

Weight (higher)

Not enough data yet for this comparison.

As a sophomore, his production profile tracks closest to Syrus Dumas's sophomore season at New Mexico State (2022).

Syrus Dumas

92%match

New Mexico State · 2022

Jordan Wright

UConn · 2024

84%

Jaylen Mahoney

Vanderbilt · 2021

78%

Dennis Barnes

UTEP · 2021

All-Conference USA

78%

Corey Mayfield Jr.

UTSA · 2021

All-Conference USA

77%

Matches Syrus on

Class year

PD rate

Tackle volume

Player DNA

Players who play like Dorrian Smith

Jaionte McMillan

Minnesota · 2025

84%

Wrook Brown

Houston · 2025

76%

Stats from CFBD · ESPN · fan discourse. Every figure computed from source tables — not invented. Methodology