Harrison Smith has been one of the best safeties in the NFL for a very long time and remains on that short list today.
Notre Dame football was well represented in the release of the first 20 players on the NFL 100, the top 100 players in the league voted on by the players.
Smith is coming off another productive year in the Vikings secondary. Despite not recording an interception for just the second time in his career, Smith did record three sacks, force three fumbles, and get credited with 93 tackles.Harrison Smith put up solid numbers last year but by no means the strongest of his career.
Smith has played in 176 career regular season NFL games. In 47 of those games he has been credited with a half sack or interception, or both .For comparison, Troy Polamalu recorded at least one of those in 39 of his 158 career games and John Lynch, also a relatively recent Hall of Fame enshrinee, pulled off one or the other in 35 of his 224 career games .
Harrison Smith might not have the flash, the championships, or the media love of some of the recent safeties just before him, but he’s undoubtedly in the same ballpark of anyone short of Reed in terms of being a playmaker and difference maker on defense.
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