Defensive Back · Los Angeles Chargers

Avery Smith

No. 36 · Rookie

Nobody drafted Avery Smith. The Chargers are paying attention anyway.

The list of players who showed up to an NFL training camp with nothing guaranteed and left with everyone watching is short. Avery Smith is working on getting added to it.

Smith came into Los Angeles Chargers camp as an undrafted free agent cornerback — meaning no team selected him when they had the chance, and whatever shot he has now, he made for himself. That is a specific kind of pressure. Every rep in camp is a job interview.

Something about what Smith has done at cornerback during camp has been worth noticing. The details are still thin, but attention at this level, for a player who started with none of the conventional leverage, means something real is happening.

For a player without a draft pedigree, attention is currency. What Smith does with it is the story now.

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