At 6’2” and 215 pounds, Iowa football player Brandon Smith isn’t necessarily a threatening figure to outwork Big Ten corners on contested catches. He doesn’t have the height or size of NFL contested contest catch king Calvin Johnson, formerly of the Detroit Lions.
For a wide receiver, Smith is simply of average size. Yet, despite being average sized, he’s got a grandiose sized game.
He’s the kind of player that can bail bad quarterbacks out of bad situations or make good quarterbacks, like Nate Stanley, look great and analytics can prove it.
Out of all returning Big Ten receivers, the junior wide receiver from Mississippi had the second best contested catch percentage in 2018.