Former NFL player Chris Smith died at the age of 31, his agent and several teams confirmed Tuesday. The defensive end, a fifth-round draft pick in 2014 by the Jacksonville Jaguars, played for five NFL teams over eight years.
Smith, who spent his first three seasons with the Jaguars before getting significant playing time with the Cincinnati Bengals in 2017, finished his NFL career with one-year stints with the Las Vegas Raiders in 2020 and the Houston Texans in 2021. He also spent time in 2021 on the Baltimore Ravens’ practice squad.While with the Browns in 2019, Smith suffered a tragedy when his girlfriend, who was also the mother of their recently born daughter, died in a roadside accident.
“I just thank God for the opportunity to show what I could do,” Smith, who also leaves behind a son and another daughter,in 2020 of continuing his NFL career after Cordero’s death. “Just to show the world that I could still play this game. That was definitely a question after the tragedy with my girlfriend happened. … I had something to play for, outside of my kids. I wanted to turn a tragedy into a testimony.”of Smith and Cordero on Twitter.
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