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After Roquan Smith menaced Auburn in the SEC title game, for which he was named the game’s MVP, Atlanta Journal-Constitution columnist Mark Bradley pondered a fitting nickname for the Bulldogs linebacker: “Montezuma’s Revenge,” a play off the Georgia native’s hometown.

Smith’s fans have pitched that name and others, such as “The Montezuma Machine” and “Roquan the Chef” (Wu-Tang fans need no explanation). No doubt Bears fans will come up with several ideas as they familiarize themselves with the team’s first-round draft pick.


For starters, here are five things to know about Smith:

Well hell

Smith worked a summer job digging wells and doing other dirty work before his freshman year of college. “We’re playing in the mud,” Roy Yoder, owner of Yoder’s Well & Pump, told the Journal-Constitution in 2015. “He enjoys it.”

Smile high

Smith knocked over an assistant during a pro-day blocking drill, prompting Patriots coach and perpetual grump Bill Belichick to crack a smile. Fans debated whether Belichick was actually pleased with Smith’s display of power or smirking skeptically, but the Georgia football Twitter account put it in the win column nonetheless: “@RoquanSmith1 scores a Belichick smile!”

‘The Rosa Parks of college football recruits’

Some college football observers compared Smith to the civil rights pioneer because he opted not to sign a binding national letter of intent — a rarity in recruiting. Within minutes of announcing his commitment to UCLA on national signing day — but before he put pen to paper — Smith learned that Bruins defensive coordinator Jeff Ulbrich, his primary recruiter, was taking a job with the Falcons. Because he hadn’t signed, Smith was free to commit to Georgia nine days later — and he didn’t sign an NLI with the Bulldogs, either, in case another development cropped up.

Pen state?

Smith told georgiadogs.com he’s able to “write neat,” especially in cursive, but his teachers were skeptical. “They always think that a female wrote it, like, ‘Who wrote this for you?’ I guess it looks like a female's handwriting.”

Claim check

Montezuma (population 3,460) is often listed as his hometown in bios, but Smith has clarified in past interviews that he grew up in even tinier Marshallville, Ga., and attended Macon County High School in nearby Montezuma.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sport...s-roquan-smith-five-facts-20180427-story.html
 

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