He played college football at USC and was selected by the Minnesota Vikings in the fifth round of the 2019 NFL draft.
Smith was rated by Rivals.com as a four-star recruit and was ranked as the seventh best inside linebacker in his class and 190th best player overall.
[1] He committed to the University of Southern California (USC) to play college football where he joined the Beta-Sigma chapter of Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity.
[2] Source:[3] Smith was selected by the Minnesota Vikings in the fifth round (162nd overall) of the 2019 NFL draft.
[12] On August 8, Smith announced he would need open-heart surgery to fix a bicuspid aortic valve he was born with, and would miss the 2020 season.