RB #6 - Roderick Smith (****) - ScarletBuckeye

HeartOfaBuckEyE22 · 08-31-2008, 04:59 PM

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Fort Wayne (IN) Harding

Ht: 6-foot-3
Wt: 215 lbs
Forty: 4.5 secs

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Originally Posted by Scout Bio
Class of 2010 prospect who enjoyed a great freshman season with 1,800 yards on 270 attempts for 15 touchdowns for the 2A State Champion.

Rushed for over 1200 yards and averaged eight yards a carry.
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5/5

By Trieu...coaches from Ohio State, Purdue and Iowa have been by his school. Visited OSU for a junior day. Likes Ohio State, Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas.
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HeartOfaBuckEyE22 · 08-31-2008, 05:00 PM

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Prep Football Notebook: How to describe Harding's Rod Smith? 'Great'
By Nick West
of The News-Sentinel

There's a plethora of adjectives to describe Harding running back Roderick Smith - beast, force, monster, Adrian Peterson? was beast mentioned?

The 6-foot-3, 214-pound junior touched up the Class 4A Bishop Dwenger Saints for 202 yards and a touchdown on 27 carries on Friday night and drew the praise of Saints coach Chris Svarczkopf.

?Rod Smith is a great football player,? he said. ?He's everything they say he is.?

A beast?

Saints safety Tyler Eifert seems to agree. Smith broke away from the defense and was galloping down the sidelines but was caught and pushed out of bounds by Eifert, who angled across the field and dove to get enough of Smith to knock him out of bounds.

Smith ended up with 41 yards and likely would have scored if it wasn't for Eifert.

?You think he's bottled up in the backfield and he just emerges out of nowhere,? Eifert said. ?You've got to go up and make the play. He's a big back and hard to bring down. He had a great game.?
http://www.news-sentinel.com/apps/pb...TS16/808319995

ChiefNiko · 08-31-2008, 07:31 PM

Looks like we've got some options for a big back in the 2010 recruiting class, Roderick being one of the ones we'll be keeping tabs on for the coming year.

jn25code · 09-01-2008, 09:08 AM

for class of 2010 ???

ChiefNiko · 09-01-2008, 02:20 PM

It says so in the Scout bio.

onezuke18 · 09-02-2008, 06:42 AM

Great looking early prospect for the 2010 class. He is definately on the Bucks radar. Roderick Smith, Eric Howard, and Corey Brown are a few of the RB prospects that are garnering attention from colleges. Smith and Howard in particular are more along the molds of Beanie Wells and Carlos Hyde. Big, between the tackles, bangers.

OSUBasketballJunkie · 02-18-2009, 11:44 AM

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Big Offers Looming for Smith....................Smith has rushed for 5,285 yards in three seasons on the high school level. Smith states that tOSU has indicated an offer is coming. Iowa has offered, Georgia, Michigan State and Minnesota are schools showing interest. Names Ohio State as his leader and will camp at tOSU this summer.

OSUBasketballJunkie · 02-18-2009, 01:22 PM

Rivals.com$

Smith plans to visit...............

louts8wings · 02-18-2009, 08:06 PM

like his size. probably could add 5 more lbs and would be a tough guy to get down!

Arapahoe · 02-20-2009, 09:47 PM

Scout lists tOSU as "high" with no offers yet.