Two-star recruits rarely garner much attention from fans. But when the Texas Tech football team decided to take two-star QB Donovan Smith as its QB in the 2020 class, many Red Raider fans that follow recruiting closely were a bit puzzled, if not downright worried.
It wasn’t only the fact that the 6-foot-5 prospect was so lightly-ranked, it was that he had never been a starting QB at the high school level. How could the Red Raiders know enough about Smith to hitch their wagon to such a wildcard of a prospect at the game’s most important position?