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Juco RB Jeremy Smith commits to Cards

Steve Jones
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The University of Louisville football team received a recruiting commitment Monday night from big, three-star junior-college running back Jeremy Smith in the 2015 class.

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Smith, a 6-foot-1, 225-pound player from Fresno (Calif.) City College, visited U of L on Friday and chose the Cardinals over offers from Vanderbilt, Colorado and Southern Mississippi. He also visited Alabama over the weekend, although it's not clear that he had an offer there. Notre Dame has recruited him, too.

Smith, who went to high school in Louisiana, is rated the No. 62 junior-college prospect nationally by 247Sports.com and the No. 6 juco running back. He rushed for 1,735 yards and 17 touchdowns in 11 games this season, and his 157-yard per-game average was tops among all California junior-college rushers.

Smith, who will sign with the Cards on Wednesday and enroll next month, is U of L's 23rd commitment in 2015 and the fifth junior-college transfer. He's the fifth running back in the class as U of L looks to replenish a unit that will lose seniors Michael Dyer and Dominique Brown.

Smith is the second commitment of the day for Louisville, which landed three-star wide receiver Isaiah Johnson of Florida in the 2016 class Monday afternoon.

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