Safety on Ohio State's 2017 roster.
6′0″ · 203 lb · Cleveland, OH
Recruiting
S recruit
No. 65 nationally · Signed with Ohio State
No college snaps yet.
His career numbers, season by seasonThe story
2017 safety on Ohio State's roster.
Erick Smith
This is his third year in the same secondary at Ohio State. The receipt on tape: 9 tackles against Army, Week 3, 2017.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
How it ended
Three seasons at Ohio State, 56 tackles — his college career is complete.
His career
Career arc
Coaching lineage · 2014–2017
1 coachPlayed his entire career under Urban Meyer.
Season context · Team result + system
3 seasons under Urban Meyer — 37-5 over that span.
Where this defender ranks vs the field
Box-score production percentiles vs the position cohort
Concern: tackles for loss (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
2017 season · 9 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home5g | 6.0 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.6 |
| Road4g | 2.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-74g | 5.5 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.5 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 3.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Ryan Day
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Player standing · 2017
Splitting first-team reps — starts some weeks, rotates others.
| Season | Team | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Ohio State | 40 | 26 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 3 | -- | -- |
| 2016 | Ohio State | 16 | 9 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 1 | -- | -- |
| 2014 | Ohio State | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 | -- |
| Career | 56 | 35 | 1.5 | 0.0 | 4 | 1 | -- |
SIGNATURE GAME · Week 14 · 2017
W 27–21
at Wisconsin
3 TOT · 3 SOLO
A wire-to-wire battle — won by 6 on the road.
With J. Barrett — 211 yds · 2 TD · 2 INT · QBR 32.0 · 60 rush yds (19 car) · 1 TD · D. Chrisman — 46 AVG · 55 LONG · 5 NO
Game log · Week-by-week
2017 season · 9 games
| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 49-21@ Indiana | 5 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | L 16-31vs Oklahoma | 3 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | W 38-7vs Army | 9 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 2 | Season-high 9 tackles |
| Wk 4 | W 54-21vs UNLV | 5 | 3 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | L 24-55@ Iowa | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | W 48-3vs Michigan State | 7 | 6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | W 52-14vs Illinois | 6 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 13 | W 31-20@ Michigan | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 14 | W 27-21@ Wisconsin | 3 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 40 | 26 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 3 |
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
40 tackles. 3 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.