{"id":333068,"date":"2023-09-22T13:52:18","date_gmt":"2023-09-22T13:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=333068"},"modified":"2023-09-22T14:00:10","modified_gmt":"2023-09-22T14:00:10","slug":"after-thursday-night-is-future-ohio-state-wide-receiver-jeremiah-smith-the-no-1-player-in-the-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=333068","title":{"rendered":"After Thursday night, is future Ohio State wide receiver Jeremiah Smith the No. 1 player in the nation?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time to have a real conversation that Ohio State football commit Jeremiah Smith might be the top recruit in the nation. The future Buckeyes wide receiver is turning in big performance after big performance.<\/p>\n<p>And, after Thursday night, Smith has had yet another big performance in a battle of two teams ranked in the USA TODAY HSS Super 25 football rankings.<\/p>\n<p>A class of 2024 recruit, Smith was tremendous on Thursday night for No. 3 Chaminade (Holywood, Florida) in a 31-28 win over No. 5 Miami Central (Miami, Florida).<\/p>\n<p>The five-star wide receiver had two touchdown catches including a spectacular one-handed grab where he showed incredible coordination and body control.<\/p>\n<p>It is hard to not begin thinking of Smith as possibly the top recruit in the nation. Not only are his statistics gaudy (he came into the game <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/fl\/hollywood\/chaminade-madonna-lions\/football\/stats\/#Player\">with 516 receiving yards and seven touchdowns<\/a> in the season&#8217;s first four games) but he is consistently making big plays.<\/p>\n<p>These are the kind of plays that project well to the Big Ten and <a href=\"https:\/\/buckeyeswire.usatoday.com\/\">Ohio State<\/a> next year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">WOW<img src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/14.0.0\/72x72\/1f92f.png\" alt=\"\ud83e\udd2f\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em;max-height: 1em\" \/><\/p>\n<p>No. 1 overall prospect and Ohio State WR commit Jeremiah Smith makes an incredible one-handed TD catch<img src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/14.0.0\/72x72\/1f525.png\" alt=\"\ud83d\udd25\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em;max-height: 1em\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(<img src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/14.0.0\/72x72\/1f3a5.png\" alt=\"\ud83c\udfa5\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em;max-height: 1em\" \/>: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SCNext?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SCNext<\/a>)<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FwCcj1Gxbz\">https:\/\/t.co\/FwCcj1Gxbz<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BIKdjgsf4r\">pic.twitter.com\/BIKdjgsf4r<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 On3 Recruits (@On3Recruits) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/On3Recruits\/status\/1705040662993698960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 22, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Smith isn&#8217;t simply overpowering opposition, as top recruits often do at this level. He is playing at a different level with uncontested catches but also repeated instances of battling for balls and coming down with clutch catches.<\/p>\n<p>He is using the entirety of his 6-foot-3, 200-pound frame as well as his great length to make the kind of catches that he will need to make on Saturdays next fall.<\/p>\n<p>A consensus five-star recruit, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/db\/jeremiah-smith-60214\/\">three recruiting services have Smith as the second-best player in the nation<\/a>. There is only one outlier<a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/college-sports\/football\/recruiting\/player\/_\/id\/250312\/jeremiah-smith\"> as ESPN has Smith<\/a> as the ninth-best recruit in this class.<\/p>\n<p>But if Smith hasn&#8217;t already made a convincing case, he could very well be the No. 1 recruit in the nation by the time signing day rolls around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Ohio State football commit Jeremiah Smith was tremendous again on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":286601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333068"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=333068"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333070,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333068\/revisions\/333070"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/286601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=333068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=333068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=333068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}