Brashard Smith 2025 NFL Draft Profile

Brashard Smith 2025 NFL Draft Profile

Brashard Smith is certainly a unique running back prospect in the middle of a strong class. Will we get another positional switch success story in the NFL? We’re going to break it all down to figure out if that’s the case for the SMU product. Here is your 2025 NFL Draft profile on Smith!

NFL Draft Stock Report: Senior Bowl (2), (3)

Smith, 21, was a four star recruit coming out of high school, but the trajectory here isn’t exactly normal. AKA, this is the Tyrone Tracy path. Smith was a wide receiver prospect coming out of high school. The Miami native stayed home with the Hurricanes for three years but then switched to running back for his final season after transferring to SMU.

Outside of the Senior Bowl, I don’t have a ton of write ups here on the SMU back. Mostly because I think I was watching the wrong one the whole time. I kept waiting for LJ Johnson to become the guy. Instead, it was Smith who took the run and quite literally ran with it. It was hard to see coming, given the former wide receiver background, and Johnson just never even sniffed a big workload in the backfield.

Smith ended the 2024 season with 235 carries for 1,332 yards and 14 touchdowns. Add in another 327 yards and four scores through the air. It was a damn good season, albeit while playing in a down ACC for a team that somehow squeaked into the playoff. The problem is, I’m just not sure how much of it is real because once they played Penn State, Smith reverted back into a zero. He was terrible that game but so was the entire SMU team.

Checking in at 5-foot-10, 194, Smith just feels like a huge wildcard. We really have just one year of a sample size and I don’t think anybody knows how this thing is really going to go. It would have been nice to see him compete at the Combine, but that didn’t happen. A 4.39 speed time is cool, but no on-field drills makes this hard, especially when the Senior Bowl stuff was alright but not anything crazy.

Probably isn’t going to be a broken tackle machine but can also probably help you in the return game. Plus speed with not of ton of tread on the tires also helps.

Kyle Monangai 2025 NFL Draft Profile

I like Brashard Smith, but in this class, he’s probably a 6th-7th round guy for me. I don’t mind the dart throw here. As long as we recognize it’s a dart throw. There’s a role for this guy, and he has third down upside, but I doubt he ever becomes anything more than a committee receiving back.

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