Two Ohio State Buckeye Legends, One Picture Frame
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The Ohio State Buckeyes have absolutely made themselves into Wide Receiver University over the past decade.
Year after year, Ohio State puts out a receiver that just looks different at the college level, and then they get to the NFL, and they are simply different. From Mike Tomas all the way through Carnell Tate, it has been a special run.
Earlier in the week, two of the greatest ones posed for a picture together, and it makes you realize just how good it has been.
The 2025 NFL Offensive Player of the Year, Jaxon Smith-Njigba, and rising superstar Jeremiah Smith caught a picture together, and it is the present star and the future star all in one.
Just a couple 99 overalls pic.twitter.com/4FKEamfJeX
— Woody (@woodyVSworld) July 15, 2026
Smith-Njigba's college career was actually a very fascinating one. He really only had one full season as a Buckeye because he was just before the start of the true NIL era.
His sophomore season was objectively insane. He had 95 catches for 1,606 yards and nine touchdowns, averaging over 123 yards per game. The game that everyone remembers JSN for was his 15-catch, 347-yard, three-touchdown explosion against Utah in the Rose Bowl.
Then, in Week One of 2022, JSN suffered an injury against Notre Dame that he never recovered from. Part of his recovery was coming back from the hamstring, and then the other part was the fact that he couldn't risk his chance at the NFL. In his final season, he had just five catches for 43 yards.
It didn't matter; the Seahawks drafted him with the 20th overall pick in the first round, and it was the right selection.
The other guy in the picture has been the best receiver in college football for the last two years now.
Jeremiah Smith is cut from a different cloth in just about every metric. As a 20-year-old, he has rare maturity, he is very smart, he has a build that can only be attributed to being built in a lab, and he is the best athlete on the field at all times.
He has had back-to-back seasons with more than 76 catches and over 1,200 yards receiving to go along with at least 12 touchdowns every year.
He is three or four pedestrian weeks away from crushing all of the receiving records in just three seasons.
Together, these two Buckeyes would be an unstoppable tandem, but separately, they are amazing players. They both will continue to be fun to watch, and Buckeye fans everywhere are lucky to have had a front row seat to it all.
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