He played college football at Michigan and was selected by the Cowboys in the first round of the 2023 NFL draft.

Feldman called Smith "so rare, in fact, it's hard to find the right superlative to begin with.

[5] At the end of the season, he was selected as a first-team player on the 2022 All-Big Ten Conference football team.

On October 7, 2022, Smith was stopped for speeding by police in Ann Arbor and was arrested after a gun was found in his possession without a concealed pistol license (CPL).

That count was dismissed on December 8, 2022, during a hearing as part of his guilty plea on the lesser charge of a loaded firearm in a motor vehicle.