Height 1.8 m | Class Senior Weight 102 kg | |
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Bowl games 2013 Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl2016 Citrus Bowl2016 Orange Bowl Date of birth (1994-11-08) November 8, 1994 (age 22) Date joined 2013 (Michigan Wolverines football) Similar Amara Darboh, Jehu Chesson, Ty Isaac, Wilton Speight, Jake Butt Profiles | ||
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De'Veon Le'trell Smith (born November 8, 1994) is an American football running back. He was the leading rusher on both the 2014 (519 rushing yards) and 2015 Michigan Wolverines football teams (753 rushing yards).
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Early years
Smith was born in 1994. He is a native of Ohio who attended Howland High School in Warren, Ohio. He set the career rushing record for Trumbull County, Ohio, with 6,750 rushing yards at Howland High School. He was a finalist for Ohio's "Mr. Football" award.
University of Michigan
In March 2012, prior to his senior year in high school, Smith announced that he had committed to play college football for the University of Michigan. As a freshman in 2013, Smith appeared in 12 games and carried the ball 26 times for 117 yards, an average of 4.5 yards per carry.
As a sophomore in 2014, Smith led Michigan with 519 rushing yards on 108 carries (4.8 yards per carry). In the opening game of the 2014 season, Smith carried the ball eight times for 115 yards, an average of 14.4 yards per carry. He also scored two touchdowns and had a run of 61 yards. Derrick Green also rushed for 170 yards in the game, as Smith and Green became the first pair of Michigan running backs to rush for over 100 yards in the same game since 2007. Smith and the other Michigan backs also set a new Michigan single-game record with 9.7 yards per carry (350 yards on 36 carries).
During the 2015 season, Smith was again Michigan's leading rusher with 753 yards and six touchdowns on 180 carries (4.2 yards per carry).
Through the first 11 games of the 2016 season, Smith led the Wolverines with 750 rushing yards and 10 touchdowns on 144 carries (5.2 yards per carry). On November 19, 2016, he rushed for a career-high 158 yards and two touchdowns against Indiana.