Jeremiah Smith

CTL-E-5922 · Person · other · 2005–present

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Combined Graph record U-07167 · provenance: build store (JSON graph), record CTL-E-5922.

Jeremiah Smith, born Jeremiah Javon Smith on 29 November 2005 in Miami Gardens, Florida, is an American college football wide receiver for the Ohio State Buckeyes. He attended Chaminade-Madonna Prep in Hollywood, Florida, and arrived at Ohio State as one of the most heralded recruits in the country. As a true freshman in 2024 he caught 76 passes for 1,315 yards and 15 touchdowns, breaking FBS freshman receiving records, and helped Ohio State win the College Football Playoff national championship. As a sophomore in 2025 he added 87 receptions for 1,243 yards and 12 touchdowns and was named a unanimous All-American. By October of his junior season in 2026 he had broken all three of Ohio State's major career receiving records — receptions, receiving yards, and touchdown receptions — passing marks held by Emeka Egbuka, Michael Jenkins, and Chris Olave, and his career totals stood at 211 receptions for 3,474 yards and 38 touchdowns. He remains an Ohio State junior in the 2026 season and is not yet eligible for the NFL Draft.

The record

• Also known as: Jeremiah Javon Smith

Notes

Staged 2026-10-16 under CTL-GOV-006 (Census Intake Wave 3 — 747 Program, Wave 9; 40-record packet). Gate A (2026-10-16): no Jeremiah Smith entity in the live graph at 3,603 entities (exact / normalized / alias + token containment); ID CTL-E-5922 free. Supply: 747 Supply Ledger, Tier 3 — Famous Birthdays ABSENT census, readiness rank 1065 (Football Players list). The census supplied the NAME ONLY; no fact in this record is sourced to it (CTL-GOV-004). SCOPE GATE: PASS — Black American college football player (Ohio State). Vital status: LIVING — Ohio State junior wide receiver in the 2026 college season, with 48 receptions for 916 yards and 11 touchdowns in six games through 10 October 2026, including a career-high 12 catches for 217 yards and 4 touchdowns against Illinois on 26 September 2026 (Ohio State Athletics; On3 season log). STATISTICS (sourced, dated): career totals in October 2026: 211 receptions, 3,474 yards, 38 touchdowns — Ohio State's career leader in all three categories; 2024 freshman line of 76 receptions, 1,315 yards and 15 touchdowns with a CFP national championship (Ohio State Athletics; Wikipedia) — accessed 2026-10-16. MEDIA: photo HELD (Ohio State Athletics photography of Smith exists; no file page was read at file-page level in this pass, so no image is cleared — CTL-PHOTO-001); chart FILLED (charts/chart-ctl-e-5922-jeremiah-smith.svg); video HELD (the Shorts Link Map catalog was checked by name and variants — no matching-entity CTL Short exists for this subject); audio HELD (no CTL-owned or rights-cleared matching-entity audio). MEDIA LAYER (staged 2026-10-16; full per-asset PHOTO-001 records + embed specs in the packet's staged JSON, Drive packet folder): map = N/A (Person records carry no map slot under the media-layer rule; maps attach to places and institutions.) | visual_assets = HELD: | chart = FILLED (CTL-created SVG (black / deep red / gold) built only from this record's sourced facts) | video = HELD (No matching-entity CTL Short in the Shorts Link Map catalog (checked by name and variants), and no official/em) | audio = HELD (No CTL-owned or rights-cleared matching-entity audio at staging; the subject's own recordings/appearances are )

Sources

• Ohio State Athletics (ohiostatebuckeyes.com), "Jeremiah Smith" 2026 roster page — junior wide receiver from Miami Gardens, Florida, Chaminade-Madonna Prep; career highs of 12 receptions, 217 yards and 4 touchdowns against Illinois on 26 September 2026; first-two-years totals of 207 receptions, 3,381 yards and 36 touchdowns, the most by any Big Ten receiver in a first two years — https://ohiostatebuckeyes.com/sports/football/roster/jeremiah-smith/13335 (primary source · build store)
• ESPN, "Ohio State's Jeremiah Smith hoping to leave legacy in final season" — 76 receptions for 1,315 yards and 15 touchdowns in 2024, with five touchdowns in Ohio State's four-game playoff run; 87 catches for 1,243 yards and 12 touchdowns in 2025; the 56-yard title-game catch against Notre Dame that set up the championship-sealing field goal — https://www.espn.ph/college-football/story/_/id/49806778/ohio-state-jeremiah-smith-hoping-leave-legacy-final-season (build store)
• Wikipedia, "Jeremiah Smith (American football)" — born Jeremiah Javon Smith, 29 November 2005, Miami Gardens, Florida; Ohio State 2024–present; CFP national champion 2024; unanimous All-American 2025; career statistics as of 2026: 211 receptions, 3,474 yards, 38 touchdowns — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremiah_Smith_(American_football) (build store)

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