James Smith: Nation’s No. 2 DL talks up Alabama, Georgia and the rest of his big recruiting decision

MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- James Smith. Very common name. Yet a very uncommon frame, game and a real thinking man’s mindset.

That’s a good window into the world of James Smith.

“That’s just how it is,” he said. “Every coach that talks to me just be saying ‘You don’t look like the type to have a name like James Smith’ and it seems like something totally different.

Smith then rattled off a decent impression of a librarian. Or the Hollywood archetypes of a banker or a dentist or a stamp collector.

He is not any of those things.

“James Smith is actually the name of a football player now,” he said.

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