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2023 NFL Draft Prospect Interview: Brian Smith Jr., WR, Missouri Valley

Brian Smith Jr. the transfer wide receiver from Missouri Valley recently sat down with NFL Draft Diamonds owner Damond Talbot
Brian Smith Jr. the transfer wide receiver from Missouri Valley recently sat down with NFL Draft Diamonds owner Damond Talbot
  • Name: Brian Smith Jr.
  • Position: WR
  • College: University Louisiana transfer currently at Missouri Valley this year.
  • Height: 6’4
  • Weight: 220
  • Twitter: 7_briansmith_
  • Instagram: 1bsmithjr__

What makes you a top prospect at your position in the 2023 NFL Draft?

Not too many people my height and weight can run real routes and catch at the highest peak. Nobody will see a performance like this again at the NAIA level for a while.

At what age were you first interested in the sport of football?

Junior year of high school was my first time ever playing football. 17

What is one thing that NFL teams should know about you?

Hard worker and you can put me anywhere offensively . 

If you could donate to one cause in the world, what would it be?

World hunger.. 

What is the best advice you have ever received?

Don’t let somebody tell you you can’t. 

Who was your childhood hero?

My mother.

Who is the most underrated teammate in your locker room at your school?

Joseph Haulcy, Jalen Jones, Thomas Houston, John Juggin, and Jordan Slocum 

What is your biggest pet peeve?

Hypocrites 

Overcoming adversity is what defines character, what was the hardest moment in your life to overcome?

Earning my place on the depth chart then few practices later I broke my hip.

Tell me something about your school and why it is so special to you?

Lovely campus and nice facilities to be a small school.

What is your favorite snack food? 

Chicken tenders

What is the best part of football?

Everything synching together as 1 dominating a team in all aspects of the game.

If you could sell yourself in one sentence what would you say?

I would say that I am literally one of a kind my thought process is further than others. 

If you could compare your play to one player in the NFL who would it be?

Dez Bryant

If you could have dinner with three people dead or alive, who would it be and why?  

Lebron  James, Jay z, and Kobe… all led in their roles, and gave people inspiration while not letting their images be tarnished 

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