Will Smith holds the RDE · Starter spot in Southern Miss Golden Eagles’s edge room. Where he sits among the room’s front-line roles:

Will Smith is a 6'2", 240-pound right defensive end from Choctaw, Oklahoma. He was a three-year letterwinner at Choctaw High School, where he started all three seasons at defensive end and earned All-District honors as a senior. During his final high school season, Smith recorded 54 tackles and eight sacks while also scoring nine touchdowns. He appeared in six games during his freshman year at Tulsa in 2024, tallying five tackles and a tackle for loss. Smith transferred to North Texas and appeared in four games in 2025 while redshirting. He is now a returning redshirt sophomore at Southern Miss.

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Southern Miss2026 — present