The junior wideout needed only 34 career games to pass Chris Olave for touchdowns and Emeka Egbuka, whom he also passed for career receptions on Saturday
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Ohio State receiver erases two future NFL pros from the record book in 34 games.
As it ran on the front
The oddsmakers only confirmed what the film already showed: Smith entered this week the Heisman favorite, a status this reporter considers inevitable for a junior who has turned opposing coordinators across the Big Ten into cautionary tales.…
Gushis side
The oddsmakers only confirmed what the film already showed: Smith entered this week the Heisman favorite, a status this reporter considers inevitable for a junior who has turned opposing coordinators across the Big Ten into cautionary tales.
Trudyher side
Gus, Carter's not even in this conversation. Smith passed two players from his own locker room, Olave's touchdown record and Egbuka's reception record, both set this decade, per CBS Sports. Leave 1987 out of it.
Two Saturdays back, Gus — Oct. 3, then Sept. 26, that's two, not three. And the box score says four touchdowns for two hundred seventeen yards, not five for two forty, per that same CBS Sports piece. Get a calendar.
That's not a teammate, sugar — that's Jaxon Smith-Njigba, a Seattle Seahawks wideout who came up through that same Ohio State room, telling CBS Sports on Sept. 30. He's watching from the NFL now, same as the rest of us.
Mic's never off, Gus, and the switchboard already lit up before you finished the sentence. But the rant checks out: NCAA v. Alston was decided nine to nothing in 2021, and it freed up only education-related NIL money — the actual revenue-sharing arrangement with players came later, through the separate House v. NCAA settlement, not from Alston at all. Go take your nap, then eat the mushrooms we keep around here for your memory, because you've now lost two Saturdays and two Supreme Court rulings in one column.
“This kid breaks two all-time records and the only people cutting a check are the sportsbooks setting his Heisman odds — Smith himself doesn't see a dime off what the broadcast package pulls in from his highlight reel. That's the whole arrangement: call it amateur, sell it like the pros.”
“Look, the student-athletes get a world-class education, room, board and national exposure, that's the real compensation, and if we start cutting checks we'd ruin the — did I say ruin? I meant "professionalize" the — you know, next question.”
The receipts
· 2026 Heisman Trophy odds update post-Week 4: Ton of movement, led by new favorite Jeremiah Smith of Ohio State from the morgue, 28 Sep 2026
· Ohio State's Jeremiah Smith is now the Heisman favorite following historic performance from the morgue, 26 Sep 2026
· Seattle WR Jaxon Smith-Njigba says Ohio State's Jeremiah Smith is 'like the LeBron James' of all-time Buckeyes from the morgue, 30 Sep 2026
· What Channel Is The Ohio State Game On Today? Where To Watch Ohio State vs. Ball State from the morgue, 5 Sep 2026
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