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Jersey Number 47
Chayce Smith
- Position:
- OLB
- Ht./Wt.:
- 6-2 / 237
- Class:
- Redshirt Junior
- Hometown:
- Baxley, GA
- High School:
- Warner Robins
Honors
• 2024: MTSU Defensive Scout Team Player of the Week 10/13, 11/3
2025 (r-Sophomore)
• In his first collegiate game at Wisconsin, he added three solo stops in 12 snaps
2024 (r-Freshman)
• Did not play in any games
2023 (Freshman)
• Did not play in any games and was redshirted
High School
• Lettered in football, basketball, and track at Appling County High School
• Had career stats of 173 tackles, 41 TFLs, 15 sacks, 80 hurries, four pass breakups and eight forced fumbles
• Turned in 33 tackles and 2.0 sacks in seven games as a senior and tallied 80 stops, including 6.0 sacks as a junior
• Helped lead Warner Robins to the Class 5A State Championship in 2021
• Was a first team all-state selection and two-time first team all-region
• Played for Coach Jordan Mullis
Personal
• Full name: Chayce Emmanuel Lee Smith
• Parent: Robie Ann Smith
• Born: 8/15/05
• Major: Integrated Studies
• 2024: MTSU Defensive Scout Team Player of the Week 10/13, 11/3
2025 (r-Sophomore)
• In his first collegiate game at Wisconsin, he added three solo stops in 12 snaps
2024 (r-Freshman)
• Did not play in any games
2023 (Freshman)
• Did not play in any games and was redshirted
High School
• Lettered in football, basketball, and track at Appling County High School
• Had career stats of 173 tackles, 41 TFLs, 15 sacks, 80 hurries, four pass breakups and eight forced fumbles
• Turned in 33 tackles and 2.0 sacks in seven games as a senior and tallied 80 stops, including 6.0 sacks as a junior
• Helped lead Warner Robins to the Class 5A State Championship in 2021
• Was a first team all-state selection and two-time first team all-region
• Played for Coach Jordan Mullis
Personal
• Full name: Chayce Emmanuel Lee Smith
• Parent: Robie Ann Smith
• Born: 8/15/05
• Major: Integrated Studies
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