Jeremiah Smith was great as a freshman wideout for Ohio State, and that’s an understatement.
He caught 76 passes for 1,315 yards and 15 touchdowns as a freshman, averaging 17.3 yards per catch.
Those numbers don’t include his production in the College Football Playoff, where he was a beast. He caught 19 passes for 381 yards and five touchdowns on Ohio State’s four playoff games. That included 187 yards and two touchdowns against No. 1 Oregon and then a touchdown in the national championship against Notre Dame.
Smith was great, but he can hypothetically only get better as he gets older. He has a chance to be an all-timer, but Joel Klatt of Fox Sports isn’t limiting Smith’s greatness to just college football. In fact, Klatt is already predicting many All-Pro seasons for Smith in the NFL.
“He’s got to play two more years of college football which means, in four years, Jeremiah Smith is the best receiver in football. He’s the No. 1 on any team in the NFL,” Klatt told Colin Cowherd (h/t On3). “Smith could be an all-time great, all-time great wide receiver, right. I truly believe he will be a 10-time All-Pro. I know that, like — I don’t want to put the cart before the horse. I don’t want to put too much pressure on this guy.”
Talking about pressure, we know Smith can handle it. He came into Columbus as the consensus No. 1 overall recruit in the country with massive hype, and he did not fail to deliver on his promise in Year 1.
