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Defensive tackle, Tulane, 2013–16
Tanzel Smart
- Number
- No. 77
- Height
- 6′1″
- Hometown
- Baton Rouge, LA
- Born
- Nov 6, 1994, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana
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Tanzel Smart played defensive tackle at Tulane (2013–16). The Los Angeles Rams took Smart in round 6, No. 189 overall in the 2017 NFL Draft.
Career highs
10tackles, career highvs. Louisiana, 2016Defense
| Season | Team | Tkl | Solo | TFL | Sacks | PD | Hur |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016* | Tulane | 68 | 34 | 19 | 5.5 | 0 | 2 |
Season lines from CollegeFootballData, regular season and bowls. * That team-season’s player lines are missing part of the team’s yards in our source, so these numbers may be short.
Defense before 2016
| Season | G | Solo | Ast | Tkl | TFL | PBU |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013N | 12 | 7 | 7 | 14 | 0.5 | 1 |
| 2015E | 9 of 12 | 28 | 13 | 41 | – | – |
Our box scores carry tackles, tackles for loss and sacks from 2016 only, so these come from other sources, marked by season: N, NCAA statistics, via octonion/football, the season’s official lines (G: games played); E, ESPN play-by-play participants, via SportsDataverse: tackles only, counted in the games whose play-by-play names tacklers (G: those games, of his team’s), so part of the season, not its total. A dash: the source has no number for it.
On the roster
As each season’s roster listed the player (CollegeFootballData). Classes before the latest listing are counted back from it; “Yr 1” is the year on file where that count can’t place a season he played (a redshirt, transfer or 2020 year); height and weight as last listed.
Game by game
2016 Tulane 12 games, 68 tackles, 5.5 sacks
| Date | Opponent | Result | Tkl | Solo | TFL | Sacks | PD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 1 | at Wake Forest | L 3–7 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| Sep 10 | vs. Southern | W 66–21 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 17 | vs. Navy | L 14–21 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 24 | vs. Louisiana | W 41–39 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| Oct 1 | at Massachusetts | W 31–24 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Oct 14 | vs. Memphis | L 14–24 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 22 | at Tulsa | L 27–50 | 8 | 3 | 1.5 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 29 | vs. SMU | L 31–35 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 5 | at UCF | L 6–37 | 7 | 2 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 12 | at Houston | L 18–30 | 7 | 2 | 3.5 | 1.5 | 0 |
| Nov 19 | vs. Temple | L 0–31 | 6 | 5 | 3.5 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 26 | at UConn | W 38–13 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
Box scores from CollegeFootballData, 2004 on. ✦ postseason; ★ a career high on file.
Before the draft
Played in the 2017 Senior Bowl (South team, won 16–15).
| Drill | Combine 2017 | Combine or pro day 2017 |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 6′0⅝″ | |
| Weight | 296 lb | |
| Arm length | 32⅞″ | |
| Hand size | 9⅝″ | |
| Wingspan | 80¾″W | |
| 40-yard dash | 5.24 s | |
| 10-yard split | 1.86 s | |
| Vertical jump | 27″ | |
| Broad jump | 8′9″ | |
| Bench press | 22 reps | |
| 3-cone drill | 7.53 s | |
| 20-yard shuttle | 4.57 s |
Combine or pro day: the source doesn’t say which. Unmarked: Combine and pro day results compiled by array-carpenter (nfl-draft-data); W: Pre-draft measurables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA). Rosters and honors: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).
In the NFL
5 seasons, 21 games with a stat; latest team: New York Jets.
| Season | Team | G | Tkl | Sacks | Int |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Los Angeles Rams | 8 | 13 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | Los Angeles Rams | 6 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | New York Jets | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | New York Jets | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | New York Jets | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| NFL career | 21 | 30 | 0 | 0 | |
Regular seasons, from nflverse (CC BY 4.0), matched to him by his draft pick and college (Player ids: DynastyProcess (GPL-3.0)). G counts games in which the player recorded a stat.
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