Tanzel Smart: DT · Tulane · #77.
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Tanzel Smart
Disrupts the pocket from the interior. On tape: 10 tackles and 3 tackles for loss against Louisiana, Week 4, 2016.
Play style
Disruptive interior rusher who lives in the backfield.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
68 tackles. 0 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 19 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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| Season | Team | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Tulane | 68 | 34 | 19.0 | 5.5 |
| Career | 68 | 34 | 19.0 | 5.5 |
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 | L 3-7@ Wake Forest | 4 | 3 | 2.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | W 66-21vs Southern | 1 | 1 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | L 14-21vs Navy | 6 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | W 41-39vs Louisiana | 10 | 7 | 3.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 10 tackles |
| Wk 5 | W 31-24@ Massachusetts | 4 | 1 | 0.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | L 14-24vs Memphis | 7 | 4 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | L 27-50@ Tulsa | 8 | 3 | 1.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | L 31-35vs SMU | 2 | 2 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | L 6-37@ UCF | 7 | 2 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | L 18-30@ Houston | 7 | 2 | 3.5 | 1.5 | — | 0 | 3.5 TFL |
| Wk 12 | L 0-31vs Temple | 6 | 5 | 3.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | 3.5 TFL |
| Wk 13 | W 38-13@ UConn | 6 | 3 | 2.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 68 | 34 | 19.0 | 5.5 | — | 0 |
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
TFL rate
28%19 TFLSack rate
8%6 sacksHurry rate
3%2 hurries68 tackles · 19 for loss · 5.5 sacks.
Splits · Per-game
2016 season · 12 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 5.3 | 1.6 | 0.2 | 0.0 |
| Road6g | 6.0 | 1.6 | 0.8 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 5.3 | 1.2 | 0.5 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 6.0 | 2.0 | 0.4 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Willie Fritz
Pass share
35.8%
258 pass / 463 run
Plays / game
60.1
12 games
Team sack rate
7.4%
285 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-heavy, slow tempo.
Player standing · 2016
68 tackles in 12 games, more tackles a game than nearly every FBS defensive lineman who plays every week.
How it ended
One season at Tulane, 68 tackles — drafted at #189 overall by the Los Angeles Rams.
Coaching lineage · 2013–2016
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Curtis Johnson → Willie Fritz. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
Next stop · NFL
Los Angeles RamsEntering 10th NFL season
Los Angeles RamsEntering 10th NFL season
