2013 Football Roster
Roster
Jerome Smith
- Position:
- Running Back
- Height:
- 6-0
- Weight:
- 226
- Class:
- Junior
- Hometown:
- Bear, Del.
- High School:
- Pencader Charter
Junior Year (2013): 2013 All-ACC Third Team Selection ... Team captain ... Started all 13 games ... Against Penn State, gained 73 yards on 16 carries and scored two touchdowns, and had one reception for seven yards ... At Northwestern, had 11 carries for 45 yards and scored one touchdown ... Against Wagner, had 14 carries for 61 yards and scored two touchdowns .... Against Tulane, had 10 carries for 38 yards, two receptions for 35 yards and scored one touchdown ... Against Clemson, rushed for 125 yards on 18 carries and scored a touchdown ... At NC State, had 19 carries for 140 yards and one touchdown, one catch for five yards ... At Georgia Tech, had 11 carries for 43 yards ... Agaist Wake Forest, rushed for 62 yards on 17 carries and had one reception for two yards ... At Maryland, rushed for 118 yards on 28 carries and scored two touchdowns and one catch for two yards ... At Florida State, had five carries ... Against Pittsburgh, gained 88 yards on 17 carries and scored a touchdown ... Against Boston College, rushed for 40 yards on 18 carries and had one reception for five yards ... Against Minnesota in the Texas Bowl, had 16 carries for 74 yards and scored a touchdown, and caught a pass for 18 yards.
Sophomore Year (2012): Played in all 13 games, including 12 starts … Finished the season as one of 11 Syracuse running backs to gain more than 1,000 yards in a season with 1,171, which ranks fifth on the Syracuse single-season rushing yards record list … His 90.1 rushing yards per game ranked 43rd nationally and third in the BIG EAST … Served as one of four game captains for four games, against USC, against Connecticut, at USF and at Cincinnati … Against Northwestern, had 10 carries for 34 yards and had two catches for 39 yards in his first career start … Against USC, gained 46 yards on 16 carries … Against Stony Brook, rushed for 95 yards on 18 carries … At Minnesota, had nine carries for 52 yards … Against Pittsburgh, carried the ball 10 times for 61 yards … At Rutgers, had 15 carries for 67 yards and two receptions for 17 yards … Against Connecticut, had 133 yards rushing on 19 carries … At USF, gained 130 yards on 28 carries … At Cincinnati, gained 116 yards on 21 carries and scored his first touchdown of the season … Against Louisville, became one of four Orange backs to record four consecutive 100-yard rushing games, gaining 144 yards on 18 carries for one touchdown, including a career-long 35-yard touchdown run … At Missouri, rushed 14 times for 53 yards and one touchdown … At Temple, had 96 yards on 20 carries … Against West Virginia in the New Era Pinstripe Bowl, had a career-high 29 carries for a career-best 152 yards...Had five carries at Florida State...Gained 88 yards on 17 carries and scored his 11th rushing touchdown of the season against Pittsburgh.
Redshirt Freshman Year (2011): Played in all 12 games … Against Rutgers, had three carries for six yards … Against West Virginia, had nine carries for 34 yards … At Louisville, had one carry for three yards … At Connecticut, gained 11 yards on four carries … Against South Florida, had five carries for 13 yards … Against Cincinnati, rushed four times for 11 yards and his first career reception for four yards … At Pittsburgh, had 10 carries for 56 yards and one touchdown
Freshman Year (2010): Played in two games before suffering a shoulder injury
High School: Selected for the 55th Annual DFRC Blue-Gold All-Star Game (June, 2010) … Earned 2009 third-team all-state and first-team all conference honors after rushing for 1,334 yards and 16 touchdowns on 193 carries and posting 36 tackles and four sacks … In 2008, he gained 956 yards on 136 carries and scored eight touchdowns and had 28 catches for 255 yards and two touchdowns … As a sophomore, he rushed for 802 yards and eight touchdowns in eight games … High School Coach: Rahsaan Matthews
Personal: Jerome Hassan Smith … Born in April 1991 in Chester, Pa. … Son of Cyreeta Smith and Jerome Billings … One brother and one sister … Majoring in hospitality and food service management.
