Jeremiah Smith 2027 NFL Draft: Scouting report for Ohio State Buckeyes wide receiver
Ohio State Buckeyes wide receiver Jeremiah Smith is eligible for the 2027 NFL Draft. Here’s what you need to know.
Height: 6-foot-3 (listed)
Weight: 223 pounds (listed)
Year: Junior
Pro Comparison: The closest thing to Julio Jones we’ve seen since Julio Jones
Pros for Jeremiah Smith
- Offers a surreal blend of height, weight, and speed on the perimeter.
- Overwhelming physicality that shows up both in the contact window and at the catch point.
- Provides eye-opening acceleration with the ball in his hands to stress pursuit angles.
- Has created loads of vertical separation with double moves or subtle hand fighting downfield.
- Has illustrated excellent concentration, body control, and catch radius to adjust to tipped or errant throws.
Cons for Jeremiah Smith
- Offers a lot of mass in a large frame, so sharp-angled routes don’t offer the same twitch and change of direction as his vertical game & in-breakers.
- Will be very expensive when it comes time for his second contract!
Background
Smith is from Miami Gardens, FL and played his high school football at Miami Central High School & Chaminade-Madonna HS in Hollywood, FL. He is cousins with New York Jets starting quarterback Geno Smith. In high school, Jeremiah went on to become one of the biggest prizes in the 2024 recruiting class. He was also a two-sport athlete who won state championships in the 110m and 400m hurdles to go with his high school football career.
Coming out of Chaminade-Madonna HS, Smith was rated as a 5-star recruit and the No. 1 ranked recruit in the entire country by 247 Sports for 2024. Additionally, Smith is the highest ranked wide receiver in the 247 Sports database since 2000 — and the 10th-highest ranked recruit at any position. The players in front of him: Jadeveon Clowney, Cyrus Kouandjio, Trevor Lawrence, Justin Fields, Bryan Breese, Bryce Young, Walker Little, Robert Nkemdiche, and Leonard Fournette.
Smith committed to Ohio State over several in-state powerhouses, including the local program in Miami. He promptly earned a slew of accolades for his performance in 2024 as a freshman. In helping the Buckeyes to the 2024/2025 National Championship, Smith was named the Big Ten Freshman of the Year, the Big Ten Wide Receiver of the Year, First-Team All-Big Ten, and First-Team All-American. Smith followed that season up by being named a consensus All-American in his sophomore season in 2025.
Player Evaluation
This is who your 99-overall Create-A-Player creates HIS player after. Jeremiah Smith offers a hilariously overwhelming profile of vertical speed and aggressiveness attacking the football. Add in physicality at the line of scrimmage, and a monster catch radius to vacuum in footballs that reach his general vicinity, too. This is the kind of field-tilting player that will dictate coverages and overwhelm individual assignments at the NFL level. He’s on that plane of existence as a physical talent. We’re talking split the half-field safety and the pressed corner for wins down the field levels of dominance.
Smith profiles as an X-receiver at the NFL level. He’s the prototype player to set on the line of scrimmage in isolation and work. With his vertical threat and physicality, most teams will have to choose how to cover him with more than one hat in coverage. Getting an isolated boundary receiver who can still pull a safety not only serves as respect for his ability. It changes the math of the rest of the defensive shell.
Smith can be whatever you want him to be in your offense. He can run the slants and free access hitches for quick game targets. Lord knows he can stretch the field. And he’s lethal on in-breaking routes and working intermediate areas, too. This is one of the more complete player profiles I’ve done in years at any position, let alone at just wide receiver. Smith, with a clean off-field effort and an injury-free 2026, should be one of the first picks of the 2027 NFL Draft.
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