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Jason Smith, Mr. Versatility: 'Auburn has helped me get ready'

By Margaret Hurt
AuburnTigers.com

AUBURN, Ala. - For Jason Smith, a senior safety from Mobile, playing college football was not always his ultimate plan.

"I started off playing baseball first and then I played basketball, and then football ended up being last," says the junior college transfer, a former quarterback whose versatility includes position changes from quarterback to receiver to defensive back.

Smith's hard work and talent shined the brightest in the 2015 Iron Bowl when he caught a 77-yard touchdown pass from Jeremy Johnson, executing Auburn's longest offensive play of that season and what Smith says is his favorite memory so far playing for the Tigers.