Will Smith performed defensive finish for Ohio State from 2000 to ‘03, profitable a nationwide championship and incomes All-American honors on the program, earlier than setting off on decade-long NFL profession. Now, Will Smith Jr., son of the previous Buckeyes and Saints star, may have the identical faculty alternative, ought to he so select.
Upon the top of the NCAA’s recruiting lifeless interval on Friday, the Buckeyes offered Smith Jr., a defensive finish within the 2023 class. He at the moment stars at Dublin Coffman Excessive Faculty (Ohio).
Smith remains to be comparatively early in his recruitment, however holds reported presents from Boston Faculty, Duke, Georgia Tech, Illinois, Northwestern and West Virginia, amongst others. The Buckeyes supply is his largest up to now, and holds much more significance given his father’s time with this system.
He took unofficial visits to Columbus for video games in opposition to Maryland and Purdue throughout the ‘21 season.
His father was chosen with the No. 18 total decide within the 2004 NFL draft by New Orleans, with whom he’d carve out a formidable professional profession. He made the Professional Bowl in 2006, and was half of the Tremendous Bowl XLIV championship crew. His profession got here to an finish in 2014, after being launched by the Saints and the Patriots, with whom he spent half of the preseason.
In 2016, Smith was shot and killed in New Orleans in a dispute stemming from a automotive accident.
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