Rod Smith is coming off of his most successful season on the football field since high school. After running only two carries for five yards and catching only two passes in his first two seasons of trying to make it in the NFL, Smith finally had his opportunity to break through for the Dallas Cowboys this past season, rushing 55 times for 232 yards and four touchdowns and catching 19 passes for 202 yards and another touchdown – better production than the once highly touted recruit out of Fort Wayne, Indiana, ever had in any of his seasons at Ohio State. Smith, who was ultimately dismissed from the Buckeyes as a fifth-year senior in 2014 – midway through their national championship season – after failing a drug test, acknowledged that his career at Ohio State didn’t go the way anyone had hoped. Off-field mistakes helped keep Smith buried on the running…
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