Somewhere in the Miami area is a youth football coach who unknowingly fueled the rise of a record-breaking wide receiver.
This is the coach who told Jeremiah Smith he didn’t make the Miami Gardens Ravens after the 7-year-old tried out to play football for the first time.
Much like the high school basketball coach who cut Michael Jordan or the NFL executives who allowed Tom Brady to fall to the sixth round of the draft, the snub ignited a fierce determination to be great within Smith. As the Ohio State freshman told FOX’s Tom Rinaldi in November, “I was just a whole different type of person from that day forward.