An observation about Smith’s 5 Touchdowns

1: Slant, Smitty breaks a tackle and cruises to the endzone

2: Crossing route, #6 breaks a tackle and tightropes the sideline for the score

3: Smoke screen, Devonta makes a man miss and accelerates the rest of the way

4: Post, The Golden Gazelle beats his man and catches a dime for a TD

5: Go route, Devonta Smith seals his record setting day but bursting past the DB and making a beautiful high point catch on another dime and gets both feet in to tie an SEC record

All five of his scores were different routes and they all showed off something different. Ability to break a tackle/make a man miss, ability to run after the catch, great hands, ability to abuse man defenders, etc

It wasn’t a bunch of slants or a bunch of screens. It was a full display of what Smith (and Tua) can do by perfectly executing on a variety of routes.