Ohio State wide receiver Jeremiah Smith
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Ohio State wide receiver Jeremiah Smith.
In the NIL era of college football, no one is off limits when it comes to a possible transfer — not even a player who could be the No. 1 overall pick in the 2027 NFL draft.
Ohio State superstar wide receiver Jeremiah Smith addressed some offseason transfer and NIL rumors recently and, to no one’s surprise, 1 team kept coming up over and over again — even if Smith wouldn’t say exactly who it was.
“Jeremiah Smith was asked about the offers he may have received this offseason to leave Ohio State,” Ohio State reporter Dillon Davis wrote on X. “He said there was never a moment he considered leaving, although he wasn’t surprised to see a certain program make a big push.”
Smith alluded to the school that made the biggest play for him being the University of Miami after the Hurricanes ended Ohio State’s season in the College Football Playoff quarterfinals.
“I knew especially at the end of that game that a certain program was going to come at me very hard,” Smith said. “Not gonna say no names, I think everybody here knows who it was. But I wasn’t goin’ nowhere.”