Jeremiah Smith, a true freshman wide receiver for Ohio State, is being lauded for his exceptional talent and maturity. Even veteran coach Chip Kelly, who has seen his share of talented players, has never encountered someone like Smith at such a young age.
Through head coaching stops at Oregon, UCLA, the Philadelphia Eagles and San Francisco 49ers, Chip Kelly has coached and faced many great football players over the past few decades. But Jeremiah Smith is different from anyone else he’s seen. It’s one thing for him to have a 1,000-yard season and 12 receiving touchdowns. It’s something else entirely for him to do that as a true freshman who just turned 19 years old. Kelly has never seen anything like it.
“As young?,” Kelly said when asked if he’s ever seen a comparable player to Smith at his age. “No. Not at that maturity level. That approach, those physical young skills as a player, as a freshman, I’ve not seen anybody like Jeremiah, no.” Maturity is a common theme associated with Smith by his peers and mentors. Since he finished eighth grade, scouts, coaches and recruiting analysts have been in his ear about how special Smith is as a football player, lauding that he boasts skills rivaled by few others. Yet the former No. 1 overall prospect in the 2024 recruiting class hasn’t let the early success of blowing past nearly every Ohio State freshman receiving record go to his head. He still thinks there’s another level he can push himself to. “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 said. “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.” Coming off a devastating loss to Michigan for the fourth year in a row, Smith had a candid conversation with Ohio State wide receivers coach Brian Hartline after OSU’s Senior Tackle event. Smith told his mentor he wanted Hartline to challenge him hard leading up to the Buckeyes’ first-round matchup with Tennessee. Hartline oblige
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