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Tim Smith
Colts logoIndianapolis Colts

Tim Smith

DTpos#93jersey24age6'4"height306lbs1seasons

Alabama · 2025 draft, round 6, pick 190

VS0of 7 shown metrics led6
Jeffery Simmons
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Jeffery Simmons

DTpos#99jersey29age6'4"height305lbs8seasons

Mississippi State · 2019 draft, round 1, pick 19

Across the 7 shown metrics with numbers for at least two players (last 4 games): Simmons leads in 6 and Smith leads in 0; 1 is level. A count of who is ahead, not a verdict: the metrics overlap and do not weigh the same.

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SmithSimmons

Percentile chips: vs 245 DL who played half the games, last 4 games

22.3%10thSnap share · average share of team snaps in the games he played90.8%99th

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SmithSimmons

Percentile chips: vs 238 DL who played half the games, last 4 games

511thTackles2099th
0.022ndSacks4.098th
018thTackles for loss597th
012thQB hits694th
036thPasses defended398th
049thInterceptions049th
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334thSolo tackles1199th

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top passers · most targeted

Box score totals from ESPN (regular season and playoffs; “last 4” is each player's four most recent games with a box score line). EPA, success rate, CPOE, aDOT, target and air-yard share from the nflverse play-by-play over the same games; snap share from nflverse snap counts. EPA per dropback includes sacks and scrambles. Carries are the official ESPN rush attempts; EPA per designed run leaves out quarterback scrambles (they count as dropbacks) and kneel-downs, so for a quarterback the two counts differ. Per opportunity divides counting stats by nflverse dropbacks (passing), ESPN targets (receiving) and ESPN carries (rushing); other counts go per game. Percentiles rank each value among players at the same position with enough volume in the same period (the same groups as the player cards: QBs 12 dropbacks a week, RBs 4.5 carries, wide receivers 2.5 targets, tight ends 2, defenders half the games; fewer than 8 peers, no percentile). The bars compare the players on the page only, not the league.