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Top LB Smith on long road to recovery

Notre Dame linebacker Jaylon Smith endured the nightmare every college prospect fears.

In the final game of his All-American junior season – the Fiesta Bowl against Ohio State – he landed awkwardly and suffered a massive knee injury, tearing the ACL and LCL in his left knee.

The nation’s best linebacker, winner of the 2015 Butkus Award, went from one of the surefire top picks in the draft to a medical question mark in the eyes of NFL teams.

"It’s the game of football and it happened," Smith said at the Scouting Combine. "I have no choice but to live with it.