Ohio State WR Jeremiah Smith made a telling admission ahead of rematch vs. Oregon that helps show why he is so good
Ohio State has been special on both sides of the football this season and that is a big reason why they have a chance to go and win it all. If the Buckeyes can win three more games, they will be National Champions. Perhaps the most important player during this run is freshman wideout Jeremiah […]
Ohio State has been special on both sides of the football this season and that is a big reason why they have a chance to go and win it all. If the Buckeyes can win three more games, they will be National Champions.
Perhaps the most important player during this run is freshman wideout Jeremiah Smith, who can do damage like no other to opposing defenses. The freshman scored two touchdowns and went over 100 receiving yards in his first playoff game in college in the first round.
Smith was recently asked when he realized he was good and how he’d become this good at the game of football. His answer said it all.
“A lot of people tell me I’m great at what I do. Since I was going into high school, people have told me that,” Smith explained, via Eleven Warriors. “I mean, football is all I know, and all I really want to do. I live, breathe, sleep football. That’s all I really care about. I don’t care about anything outside of football. It’s all I know and I want to play football for the rest of my life.”
When Smith is on the gridiron, he indeed looks like a player who is all about football he said. As a freshman at Ohio State, Smith has 63 catches, 1,037 receiving yards, and 12 receiving touchdowns. From Day 1, Smith was the No. 1 wide receiver for the Buckeyes in a room that features other NFL talent.
In the week off between the games against Tennessee and Oregon, Smith asked wide receivers coach Brian Hartline to challenge him harder than ever in practice.
“That’s how you become great,” Smith said of asking Hartline to do that. “You see guys like Kobe Bryant, Michael Jordan, they want to be pushed. I’m trying to be like them, in football.”
Having the mindset like the greats he named isn’t a bad idea at all. Smith sounds like a guy who plans to do some damage against Oregon. The first time around, the star freshman made nine catches for 100 yards.
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