Former Vols OL Trey Smith challenges Josh Dobbs on space's biggest mystery
Trey Smith is no stranger to taking on a challenge. As a freshman at Tennessee, he started 12 games combined at right guard and left tackle, earning SEC All-Freshman first team honors and becoming the first freshman to start at left tackle in over 30 years. Then, after overcoming a diagnosis of blood clots in […]
Trey Smith is no stranger to taking on a challenge.
As a freshman at Tennessee, he started 12 games combined at right guard and left tackle, earning SEC All-Freshman first team honors and becoming the first freshman to start at left tackle in over 30 years. Then, after overcoming a diagnosis of blood clots in his lungs – or pulmonary emboli – that cost him part of 2018, he came back strong, earning first-team All-SEC honors from 2019-2020 with the Vols.
After being drafted by the Kansas City Chiefs in the sixth round of the 2021 draft, Smith earned a starting spot as a rookie. He's started 39 games over his first two seasons including the playoffs, becoming a force on the inside of the Chiefs' offensive line. He played no small part in Kansas City claiming its second Super Bowl in February as the Chiefs beat the Eagles 38-35.
Now, having overcome a serious health issue and conquering football at its highest level, Smith is setting his sights even higher – space.
Smith and fellow former Tennessee star and current Browns QB Josh Dobbs got into an interesting back and forth recently on Twitter. The subject was whether or not extraterrestrial life exists, and Dobbs was miffed at how his fellow Vol football alumnus could believe they do.
Now, while it may seem like a simple conversation, what many Vol fans know – and Chiefs fans may or may not – is that Dobbs is not your ordinary around-the-water-cooler type of individual to shoot the breeze with on this subject. The man has a degree in aerospace engineering and has done externships for NASA since being drafted in the NFL in 2017. He's a rocket scientist, for crying out loud. We often talk about space as lay people, but he's pretty much an expert on it.
But to be fair to Smith (and to all of us who discuss the subject with a lack of expert scientific knowledge), the existence of extraterrestrials is one that is widely debated and personal to many of us. And Smith is on the side of us not being alone in the universe.
Smith has never backed down from a challenge, whether it be on the football field or health related, and that doesn't look to be the case now. Smith references US Congressman Tim Burchett as part of the debate, as the existence of alien life and UFOs has recently been the subject of congressional hearings.
Who knows if we will ever find out with certainty in our lifetimes if we are alone in the universe. However, Smith has shown over the past six years that those who bet against him may end up on the wrong side of things.
Trey Smith sends message to fans in Tennessee after winning Super Bowl LVII
Former Tennessee Vols offensive lineman Trey Smith is a Super Bowl champion. Smith and the Kansas City Chiefs defeated the Philadelphia Eagles 38-35 on Sunday night in Arizona to win Super Bowl LVII. After the game, Smith, a Jackson, TN native, spoke with TennesseeTitans.com's Jim Wyatt in the locker room and he had a message […]
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