Jared Smith is less than a month away from registering on the campus of Auburn.
Smith committed to the Tigers before his senior season at Alabaster (Ala.) Thompson High. His recruiting only stopped in the final days leading up to National Signing Day.
Rivals Rookie #30 overall in the country made several visits to South Carolina and Ole Miss before lining up with Auburn earlier this month.
Smith didn’t sweat too much on his final decision before making it official.
“Man, I don’t think it was really close,” he said. Rivals of the Alabama-Mississippi All-Star Game on the South Alabama campus. “I knew where the house was.”
Smith, the DE ranked #3 in Rivals250enrolls on January 8 and will begin classes at Auburn on January 13.
The elite defender will also participate in spring practice as he works to play as a freshman on the Plains.
“We can create big changes there,” Smith said. “These guys…these guys here…they’re the reason we have the No. (8) class in America.”
“All of us,” he continued, pointing to other high-profile signatories in the state as Malik Autry, Jourdin CrawfordAnd Antonio Coleman. “We can all play as freshmen and contribute to the team as freshmen. We can be freshmen All-Americans. We can create big changes there. These guys are beasts. The whole lineage is beasts.”
Smith credits those same defensive linemen as the main reason he remains at Auburn despite pressure from other SEC schools.
“All these guys signed with Auburn. It’s crazy to finally be able to compete with them,” Smith said. “It was about who I saw myself playing with, who I could create and wreak havoc with, and it was those guys.”
