Placeholder Image

Subtitles section Play video

  • Kirk's question about Devante Smith.

  • Very important look at the record book and even where he ranked 2nd and 3rd.

  • He's got a great opportunity to hold all of those records.

  • You think about the Alabama receivers, Maybe Jerry Judy shift here.

  • Amari Cooper and Calvin Ridley have edges as technicians.

  • Henry rugs and Jaylen Waddle.

  • Maybe a hair faster.

  • Julio Jones certainly Mawr imposing.

  • But the Slim Reaper Devante Smith might cast the biggest shadow of any Alabama receiver in Tonight.

  • He goes back into a stadium where he had what would be a crescendo moment for anyone, a play that would be relived over and over again and celebrated.

  • But his Tom Rinaldi tells us remarkably, if you bring up the national championship winning walk off catch against Georgia.

  • To Smith, that's the one pass.

  • He'd probably just a soon drop.

  • Thank you.

  • I loathe two freshmen.

  • True freshman talking about Devon Smith.

  • It was an indelible play, but for Devante Smith, never an ultimate peak.

  • I didn't want to be a one hit wonder.

  • Somebody did something one time and then just come back and there's nothing.

  • Actually, I just wanna keep building on it.

  • Keep growing not the cheers of the roars.

  • This is the sound every day after every practice, that describes Smith best 100 catches minimum ritual that leads to results.

  • It's helped a lot just because when I'm in the game and the ball is being thrown to me, it just feels different when it's coming to me.

  • And then when it hit my hands, it's just like, Okay, I could tell that me catching 100 passes every day is really paying off.

  • Here's the snap.

  • Matt looks ends on which the what.

  • Now a senior, Smith has become one of the sport's most electrifying players.

  • This season.

  • He has the most receiving touchdowns in SEC history.

  • It is good on sort shown.

  • Delonte Smith scores it a front runner for the Bullet Nick off award, and he's emerged as a serious candidate for the Heisman Trophy, all made possible by his choice last spring to forego the NFL draft on return for his senior season.

  • I got people here saying stay people here saying go So it was really hard the day before, I just officially put it out.

  • It's probably when I made myself the number one reason was to get my degree.

  • Oh, relentless work and constant study Smith has learned from his elite former teammates and absorbed their examples.

  • What have you learned from Calvin?

  • Ridden?

  • Talks down Colvin friendly.

  • He really taught me just that your job is to catch passes.

  • Your job is to get over.

  • So do your job.

  • Jerry.

  • Jerry, too, is said with just the way he sets people up with body language of the release.

  • Just how it looks toe a TV.

  • Henry.

  • It's just, Yeah, you're like, I'm just gonna run by speed like you can't teach speed.

  • Just run.

  • Trust your speed.

  • Mhm.

  • We might watch the highlights again and again.

  • Devante Smith doesn't.

  • He's working, reaching, rising to earn whatever comes next.

  • Me as a player, I've gotten a whole lot smarter.

  • I approach every game the same.

  • I come out there, I'm gonna give mall.

  • I'm gonna go out there and try to execute the game plan the best way I can.

  • Thanks for watching ESPN on YouTube for live streaming sports and premium content.

Kirk's question about Devante Smith.

Subtitles and vocabulary

Click the word to look it up Click the word to find further inforamtion about it