Texas Tech football recruiting: 2020 QB commit Donovan Smith turning heads

Texas Tech football fans are growing more and more excited each week as 2020 QB commit Donovan Smith continues to impress in his first year as a starter.

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…