Of the 11 players they selected in the 2021 NFL draft, the Carolina Panthers scooped themselves up two wide receivers—second-rounder Terrace Marshall Jr. and sixth-rounder Shi Smith. But who would’ve thought, a little over a year later, that it’d be the latter who was getting more opportunities than the former?
Probably no one. But that hasn’t stopped Smith from working his way into the offense and now—with returner Andre Roberts set to miss a few months on the injured reserve—into a premier special teams role.
