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Jeremiah Smith named Big Ten Freshman of Year, Wide Receiver of Year

Spencer-Holbrookby: Spencer Holbrook12/03/24SpencerHolbrook
Jeremiah Smith by Mick Walker -- Lettermen Row --
Jeremiah Smith (Mick Walker/Lettermen Row)

COLUMBUS — Ohio State wide receiver Jeremiah Smith is already adding hardware to his Buckeyes legacy, and he hasn’t even finished his freshman season yet.

On Tuesday, Smith was named a first-team All-Big Ten selection. But he won two major conference awards, too. Smith is officially the Big Ten Freshman of the Year and the Big Ten Wide Receiver of the Year, two massive honors for a true freshman.

Jeremiah Smith is the second straight Ohio State receiver to win the receiver of the year honors.

Smith is the leading receiver for a stacked Ohio State wide receiver room this season. The freshman former No. 1 overall prospect from the 2024 recruiting class has 57 catches for 934 receiving yards and 10 touchdown grabs on the season. Those numbers are all freshman receiving records for the Buckeyes, and he has topped them all in just the regular season.

He was recently named a semifinalist for the Biletnikoff Award, which is given the the country’s best wide receiver, but he didn’t make the cut for the finalists.

This all is no surprise to anyone who has been around Jeremiah Smith this season.

“I’m not surprised in the slightest,” Buckeyes QB Will Howard recently said about Smith. “Man, he is, as a freshman … I think he’s the best receiver in the country, you know? I think we have the three best receivers [Smith, Emeka Egbuka, Carnell Tate] in the country on our team. Obviously, I’m biased, but, you know, I’m a lucky man to have guys like that doing what they’re doing. 

“I knew Jeremiah was gonna be special from the first time I met him, and he’s just continued to get better and better.”

Now Jeremiah Smith is already cementing his Ohio State legacy — after just one season.

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