The last time that Andre Smith played guard, he was a 9th grader at Huffman High School in Birmingham, Alabama.
“We had a pretty good lineman named Dominic Lee my freshman year of high school and he was the man so I played guard next to him,” said Smith.
Fifteen years later, including eight as a starting right tackle in the NFL, Andre is preparing to play guard again. He’s the likely replacement in the Bengals starting lineup for Kevin Zeitler who signed as a free agent with Cleveland.