Jeremiah Smith recaps explosive two-touchdown debut in ohio State's 52-6 win over Akron

[Music] my Chris Carter tweeted hey I dropped my first pass too and then you know it was an Ohio State Buckeye and then got on with it just what were your Thought page there and did this day go kind like you maybe dreamed or thought it would uh I mean not really I mean I just went on with the week uh mean my coaches prepared me great throughout the week and just scheming things up for me to get the ball so I just can't say it was only my coach as well and your favorite catch favorite catch uh had to be the D ball one will do uh yeah I got to be best over to the left Jeremiah Joey coffin Columbus Dispatch Jeremiah on the on the drop can you walk us through what happened to it and what was your reaction when you kind of came back to the sideline industry mentality at that point uh my reaction to dropping the ball was I don't know I can't really explain that but when I came to the S I was just mad at myself but I mean it's football when you play receiver you go drop the ball so but you can't drop it that much so I'm might just moved on just made a play this draw so that's all now over here to the right Jeremy Birmingham the podcast heyj just this experience all of the buildup to today what was it like for you running out the tunnel the first time with 100,000 people scoring that first touchdown what I mean was it what you thought oh yeah for sure I mean I been I'm I was a recruit so I can't see no visit but actually being out here on the field and playing and getting a full experience of walking out that t was something I would never forget and just SC that first touchdown felt so great and I just can't thank myself got to thank God man above so that's all over to the left Andy Anders 11 Warriors you were just asked about the drop you also have the penalty early on what in your mentality allows you to bounce back from those mistakes and and go make more big plays uh just move on me it's football you got more football to play you got four quarters of football so just move on just keep my head down just keep working as over here to the right Andy backrub Letterman roll yeah Jeremiah it looked like you and will were on the same page pretty much all day today just where is your Chemistry at with will right now and what's it like C pass uh chemistry is going very good right now I mean just something we build doing practice and just continue to build on that and it's going get even better for sure over here to the left Cameron T Robins in the athletic my can't we asked if you knew about the hype you said you said yeah this is like NL receivers come in and out of this F so so much you to do what you did today your first college Deb what was that like and what did you feel any extra pressure knowing kind of um pressure no I don't really feel pressure um I just want to go out there and play football and win and play play football and win games so I mean I know all the hype around me was crazy coming in and I just wanted to come in and be a guy just work and just not be about all hype so I mean just want to impress my coaches impress my peers around me and my teammates so over here to the right Brandon Gulick Bucky now on Sports Illustrated j i a two-part question first of all how do you try to slow yourself down when you know things are flying around you the your energy the environment is crazy uh and secondly what are you working out in your game right now actively trying to get better at uh how I slow myself down just you know listen to my coaches I mean really Coach line he tell me to calm down you know the experience is very crazy got a freshman so I mean and what I'm working on right now just you know um just getting better each and every day really um just working on footwork with coach just want to trying to find more things to get better at in my game that's all over to the left Rob all columus dispatch knowing you good oh Jeff Gilbert presos here I uh back to the early mistakes would you stay in the game coaches trust you like I'm not we're not taking him out we trust him he's going to play through what's it mean to you for the coaches at this stage of your career to have that trust that you're going back they're not even yelling at you anything yeah I mean I just I just can't say I just feel like it's I think I build that during practice I mean I feel like they trust me a lot to you know knowing that I made a mistake that they know I'm going bounce back from him so I mean it's just a trusting them that they have me to go out and continue playing football and make plays couple more plays for Jeremiah Jake troter ESPN yeah Jeremiah you got to go back to 96 1996 the last time a freshman uh here caught two touchdown passes in an au how can you build about this performance going forward uh I could build on it by just know I know not dropping the ball I feel like I had a better game I just made mistakes and just continue to work and just get better each and every day and final question uh front row here Stephanie OT 97.1 The Fan so there's always lots of pressure when you're new to Ohio State I think to Justin Fields when he went I think it was till week eight where he had an interception and he told me it was a relief that it finally came just to get it out of the way was getting that drop so early on almost a relief oh yeah for sure I mean I would just worri about catching the ball and just getting up field but I mean I'm glad it happened and you know I just got that know got that relief and I'm I'm here now so I'm good and now your teammates responded to that and then and Coach they just completely got faith in you and let it write it out oh yeah yeah for sure they just told me just just calm down you good just go on move on to the next play that's all great Jeremiah thank you very much