About a month ago, Ravens Head Coach John Harbaugh said Jimmy Smith is one of the best cornerbacks, and that he’ll prove over the next couple years to be maybe the best. A reporter followed up, asking if Harbaugh meant the Ravens’ best cornerback.
“No, I’m talking about the best in the league,” he clarified.
Fast forward to this week and the media is being recognized as the lockdown, shutdown – whatever you want to call it – cornerback the Ravens envisioned when they drafted him in the first round in 2011. If he continues this pace, he should make his first career Pro Bowl in his seventh season.