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Jeremiah Smith Draws Praise from Ohio State Veterans at Big Ten Media Days

There’s a smattering of ways that younger generations have found to say somebody is good at his or her craft.

He’s him. He’s got that dog (or perhaps dawg) in him. He’s like that.

The latter is the phrase cornerback Denzel Burke – perhaps the least likely of any Buckeye to sugarcoat anything – used to describe Jeremiah Smith when asked why it’s the freshman who he enjoys going against most in practice.

Burke even said it two extra times, each more emphasized than the last.

“To be honest, he's like that,” Burke said. “Like, like that, like that.