Top 10 highest-rated New York HS football players of all time

No. 10 – Will Smith 

Smith’s 247 Sports profile shows that he had a player rating of 0.9715. The 6-foot-4, 230-pound DE graduated from Thomas R. Proctor High School (Utica) in the Class of 2000. He’s not ranked on 247 Sports’ top 500 all-time list and he’s only a four-star recruit.  

Smith made 20 sacks during his senior season alone. Recording 167 tackles (111 solo) and 21 sacks at Ohio State led him to become a first-round pick in the 2004 NFL Draft. 

The Super Bowl champion and New Orleans Saints Hall of Famer died in 2016 after he was shot during a road rage incident.