Although he never played college football, Tyreke Smith’s older brother Malik is also pursuing an NFL career, and he put his tight end skills on display at Ohio State’s pro day.
Both of them were among the 2022 draft hopefuls working out in front of representatives from all 32 NFL teams during Ohio State’s annual draft prospect showcase at the Woody Hayes Athletic Center. The two brothers’ journeys to this point, however, have been very different from one another.
Basketball was the Smith brothers’ first love, and while Tyreke ultimately started playing football as a junior at Cleveland Heights High School – and quickly became one of the top defensive end prospects in the recruiting class of 2018 – Malik chose to focus solely on basketball. “My basketball career was derailed due to mental health that I was disregarding at first and early in my career, not kind of addressing it properly,” Malik Smith said after last Wednesday’s pro day. “And just from that point to now, I feel like everything that I went through with that, all the lessons that I've learned, all prepared me for this moment now.”
Malik has been training with Tyreke ever since Tyreke’s Ohio State career ended in January, and Malik has also been training with former Green Bay Packers tight end Jermichael Finley, who he says has been teaching him the ins and outs of the tight end position. Malik said he has been inspired by the stories of Gates and other basketball players-turned-NFL tight ends, and he hopes an NFL team will be inspired by their stories too and take a chance on his raw potential.
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