Junior linebacker for East Carolina. 2020: 60 tackles, 5 tackles for loss, 1.5 sacks.
6′0″ · 246 lb · Stafford, VA
Recruiting
ILB recruit
No. 1764 nationally · Signed with East Carolina
No college snaps yet.
His career numbers, season by seasonThe story
3 linebacker for East Carolina. 2020: 60 tackles, 5 tackles for loss, 1.5 sacks.
Xavier Smith
Xavier Smith has played for two head coaches in three seasons at East Carolina. The receipt on tape: 15 tackles against Navy, Week 7, 2020.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
How it ended
Three seasons at East Carolina, 142 tackles — his college career is complete.
His career
He was on the field for 3 seasons. That is rarer than it sounds.
Career arc
Coaching lineage · 2018–2020
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Scottie Montgomery → Mike Houston. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
Season context · Team result + system
Where this defender ranks vs the field
Box-score production percentiles vs the position cohort
Elite: passes defended (96th percentile). Strength: qb hurries (95th 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
2020 season · 8 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home4g | 8.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
| Road4g | 6.8 | 1.0 | 0.1 | 1.2 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-73g | 10.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.7 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 5.8 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 0.8 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Blake Harrell
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Player standing · 2020
Splitting first-team reps — starts some weeks, rotates others.
| Season | Team | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | East Carolina | 60 | 28 | 5.0 | 1.5 | 6 | -- | -- |
| 2019 | East Carolina | 81 | 40 | 2.5 | 0.0 | 4 | -- | -- |
| 2018 | East Carolina | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | -- | -- | -- |
| Career | 142 | 69 | 7.5 | 1.5 | 10 | -- | -- |
SIGNATURE GAME · Week 13 · 2020
W 52–38
vs SMU
Game log · Week-by-week
2020 season · 8 games
| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 4 | L 28-51vs UCF | 8 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 5 | L 29-49@ Georgia State | 8 | 6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 7 | L 23-27vs Navy | 15 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 15 tackles |
| Wk 9 | L 30-34@ Tulsa | 5 | 3 | 1.5 | 0.5 | — | 3 | |
| Wk 10 | L 21-38vs Tulane | 4 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | L 17-55@ Cincinnati | 5 | 3 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | W 28-3@ Temple | 9 | 5 | 2.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 13 | W 52-38vs SMU | 6 | 3 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 60 | 28 | 5.0 | 1.5 | — | 6 |
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
60 tackles. 6 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 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.