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Brad Smelley

Player breakdown

Brad Smelley

Alabama · 2012 Draft Class

7th round, 247th overallAge at Draft: 23Age: ~37
LowMissed 700+ Rec
Major awards: 0Heisman votes: 0NIL Contract Value: --
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Model confidence

Success Probability

9%

YearTeamGGSTgtRecYdsY/RTDY/G
2012CLE20113301.5
SeasonTeamConfGRecYdsTDYPRYPG
2008AlabamaSEC0691015.20
2009AlabamaSEC075007.10
2010AlabamaSEC043508.80
2011AlabamaSEC327317411.7105.7
Career344493411.2164.3

Model readout

Probability, context, and base score

XGBoost Prob

9%

ML model output

Context Prob

9%

Rule-based model

Suppression Signals

0

Depth chart context

SHAP Base

0.854

Average prediction

Top Positive Factors

Efficiency consistency: 1.35 — highly consistent across seasons+0.266
Best season: 105.7 ypg — elite 100+ ypg per-game ceiling+0.262
105.7 volume-adjusted ypg — elite output relative to team pass rate+0.234

Top Negative Factors

Positive production trend (+75) — improving trajectory-0.737
422 conference-adjusted best-season yards — competition-normalized peak-0.495
0.00 ypg per lb — average size-adjusted production-0.444

SHAP Feature Impact (Top 20)