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Career Highs
- 3 Total Tackles (Two times – last vs. Rutgers on Nov. 22, 2025)
- 2025: OSU Scholar-Athlete, Academic All-Big Ten Conference
- 2024: OSU Scholar-Athlete, Academic All-Big Ten Conference
Appeared in 13 games as a redshirt sophomore, totaling 233 snaps on the defensive line and on special teams...Finished the season with 20 tackles.
- TEXAS (8/30): Totaled two tackles on 17 snaps played.
- GRAMBLING (9/6): Played 18 snaps.
- OHIO (9/13): Collected career-high tying three tackles in 23 plays.
- at WASHINGTON (9/27): Grabbed one tackle nine plays.
- MINNESOTA (10/4): Registered two tackles on 23 plays.
- at ILLINOIS (10/11): Tallied two tackles on 33 snaps.
- at WISCONSIN (10/18): Grabbed one tackle on five plays.
- PENN STATE (11/1): Finished the game with two tackles on 17 snaps played.
- at PURDUE (11/8): Notched one tackle in 16 snaps played.
- UCLA (11/15): Ended the game with one tackle in 21 snaps.
- RUTGERS (11/22): Totaled a career-high tying three tackles in 29 snaps played.
- at MICHIGAN (11/29): Posted eight plays.
- vs. MIAMI (12/31): Recorded eight snaps.
Appeared in seven games as a redshirt freshman, totaling 36 snaps on the defensive line and on special teams...Finished the season with one tackle.
- AKRON (8/31): Posted a season-high eight snaps.
- WESTERN MICHIGAN (9/7): Saw three snaps.
- MARSHALL (9/21): Tallied seven snaps.
- PURDUE (11/9): Logged five plays.
- at NORTHWESTERN (11/16): Finished the game with seven plays.
- INDIANA (11/23): Suited up in one play, recording a tackle.
- TENNESSEE (12/21): Notched five plays.
Did not play in a game...Earned a redshirt.
Majoring in
- Sport Industry
- Will was a part of the 2023 Ohio State recruiting class
- He enrolled in classes at Ohio State in January of 2023 and took part in spring drills
- He was the No. 8 overall player regardless of position in the state of Ohio as a high school senior in 2022
- Helped Coffman to a 7-4 record and an Division I first-round playoff appearance as a senior
- Voted as the All-Central District Division I Defensive Player of the Year
- First team All-Ohio for Division I by the Ohio Prep Sportswriters Association
- Had 47 tackles, 14 tackles-for-loss and five sacks in 10 games as a senior
- An Ohio Division I state qualifier in the shot put; also threw the discus
- His father is the late Will Smith, who played on Ohio State’s 2002 national championship team and also for the New Orleans Saints
- Mother is Kerry Monahan
