He oozes respect and humility in between the mostly measured responses.
There are enough glimpses, though, of who Jaylon Smith really is that it’s difficult not to fast-forward to who he may turn out to become rather than living in the moment, as he is forcing himself to do.
Even those who watched the 18-year-old Notre Dame outside linebacker from Fort Wayne, Ind., dominate on the high school level and the summer camp circuit, keep saying, “Just wait.”