2025 Football Roster
Jeremiah Smith
- Position:
- Wide Receiver
- Height:
- 6-3
- Weight:
- 223
- Hometown:
- Miami Gardens, Fla.
- Last School:
- Chaminade-Madonna Prep
- Year:
- Sophomore
• His season totals - as of Nov. 2 - including 55 catches, 725 yards and nine touchdowns.
• Ranks fifth nationally in touchdown receptions (nine), 10th in receiving yards per game (90.6), 12th in total receiving yards (725), 11th in receptions (55) and eighth in receptions per game (6.88)
• Has at least five catches in each of Ohio State's eight games thus far (as of Nov. 2)
• Multiple touchdown catches in three games (vs. Grambling, vs. Minnesota and vs. Penn State)
• Became the fastest player in program history to reach 1,500 career receiving yards (19 games)
• Registered his third 100-yard game last time out when he finished with six catches for 123 yards and two touchdowns versus Penn State.
Ohio State Overview
• Jeremiah is coming off consecutive outstanding seasons for Ohio State and he will be a candidate for every major offensive award in 2026, including the Heisman Trophy, Biletnikoff Award, Walter Camp Award and Maxwell Award
• He is a two-time All-American, including earning unanimous All-American honors in 2025 as he was named first-team by Walter Camp, the FWAA, the AFCA, the Associated Press and The Sporting News
• Has more receiving yards and receiving touchdowns - 2,558 and 27, respectively - than anyone in the country the past two seasons and he has the second-most receptions - 163 - the last two years (Toledo's Junior Vandeross has 167)
• Has become the fastest Buckeye to reach 100 receptions (20 games to tie Jaxon Smith-Njigba), 1,000 and 1,500 receiving yards (19 and 24 games, respectively) and 25 receiving touchdowns (25 games)
• Joins Marvin Harrison Jr. as the only Buckeyes with two 1,000-yard receiving seasons
• Enters 2026 campaign within reach of Ohio State's three major receiving records: he needs just 43 receptions to top Emeka Egbuka's record of 205 between 2021-24; he needs 341 yards to top Michael Jenkins' 2,898 from 2000-03; and he needs nine TDs to top Chris Olave's record of 35 from 2018-21
• Also enters the 2026 season with more 50-yard receptions - 10 - than any other player with four in 2025 (87 vs. Grambling, 59 vs. Miami, 57 vs. Penn State and 52 vs. Indiana) and a nation's-leading six in 2024 (70 yards vs. Howard, 68 vs. Northwestern, 60 vs. Nebraska, 56 vs. Notre Dame, 53 vs. Iowa and 53 vs. Marshall)
• In front of the 2025 season was rated as Pro Football Focus' and Joel Klatt’s No. 1 overall player in college football, and he was No. 1 on Bruce Feldman’s “freaks” list
• Nationally ranked among the top seven receivers in 2025 in five categories: yards and average yards per game (4th with 1,243 and 95.6), yards per reception (4th at 14.3), TDs (6th with 12) and receptions (7th with 87)
• His 87 receptions last year were third-most in a single season at Ohio State
• Named the Big Ten Conference's Richter-Howard Wide Receiver of the Year for a second consecutive year
• Had six 100-yard receiving games in 2025 and now has 10 for his career
• Had career-high 10 receptions vs. Purdue and had high yardage games of 157 vs. Michigan, 153 vs. Ohio and 144 vs. Indiana
• In six post-season games, all vs. teams ranked in the Top 10 nationally, has caught 34 passes for 682 yards and a 20.0 yards per reception average with six touchdowns
• He had a fabulous freshman campaign in 2024, shattering all of Pro Football Hall of Famer Cris Carter's Ohio State freshman records with 76 receptions for 1,315 yards and 15 touchdowns
• Earned first-team All-America honors by USA Today and was voted by the league's coaches as the Richter-Howard Wide Receiver of the Year and the Thompson-Randle El Freshman of the Year
• A finalist for the Shaun Alexander national freshman of the year award and earned second-team All-America laurels by the American Football Coaches Association, Associated Press and Walter Camp
• His season was full of spectacular catches and huge catches with No. 1 a 56-yard reception on 3rd-and-11 - and now referred to as "3rd and Jeremiah" late in the fourth quarter of the national title game against Notre Dame that led to Ohio State's final points in the 34-23 win
• His 15 TD receptions ranked in a tie for 2nd nationally and his 1,315 receiving yards ranked fourth with both totals leading the Big Ten, while his 76 receptions ranked sixth in the conference
• His 16 total touchdowns, including a rushing score vs. Michigan State, ranked 23rd nationally
• Caught at least one pass in every game and opened his career with at least one touchdown receiving in his first seven games
• His 1,315 receiving yards were fourth-most in single season history at Ohio State and in the process became the first Ohio State freshmen to top 1,000 yards receiving
• His 15 TD receptions are second-most in school history (17, Terry Glenn in 1995)
• Set his personal bests of seven receptions and 187 receiving yards in an electrifying game and win over Oregon in the CFP quarterfinals at the Rose Bowl to earn MVP honors
• Scored five touchdowns in the CFP games, including two apiece in the opening round win over Tennessee and again vs. Oregon
• Caught 19 passes for 381 yards and a 20.1 yards per reception average in the four CFP games
• An OSU Scholar-Athlete who is majoring in sport industry
2025: Unanimous All-American (Walter Camp, the FWAA, the AFCA, the Associated Press and The Sporting News), Big Ten Conference Richter-Howard Wide Receiver of the Year, All-Big Ten, Academic All-Big Ten
2024: First-team All-America (USA Today), Big Ten Conference Richter-Howard Wide Receiver of the Year, Big Ten Thompson-Randle El Freshman of the Year, Rose Bowl offensive MVP, On3 Offensive Freshman of the Year, All-Big Ten, OSU Scholar-Athlete
More on Jeremiah
• Jeremiah was the 2024 recruiting class consensus No.1 ranked player in the country regardless of position
• A five-star prospect by every major recruiting service as well as the top-ranked wide receiver
• One of five finalists for 247Sports’ National Player of the Year honors
• Named the Player of the Year in the state of Florida by MaxPreps
• In 14 games as a senior, had 88 receptions for 1,376 yards and 19 touchdowns
• In his final high school game – a 56-0 win to capture the state championship – Smith caught 11 passes for 170 yards and scored a touchdown
• Over his final two seasons, he caught 151 passes for 2,474 yards and 39 touchdowns while playing in 28 games.
• Chaminade-Madonna Prep was the nation’s No. 2-ranked team and finished the season 14-0 in 2023
• He is the first wide receiver to earn the No. 1 overall ranking in the 247Sports Composite in 11 years, since Dorial Green-Beckham in 2012
• In a win over perennial New Jersey state power Began Catholic earlier this fall, he caught 16 passes for 316 yards and three TDs in three quarters of action
• Winner of the Nat Moore Trophy, which is awarded annually to the top high school player in Miami-Dade, Broward and Monroe counties
• Named the Maxwell Award High School Player of the Year
• Is the son of Lativia Newberry and Christopher Smith, and has an older brother (Christopher), an older sister (Jade) and a younger brother (Angelo)
