Daylon Smothers, winner of two straight North Carolina Mr. Football awards and one of the nation’s top recruits, is ruled ineligible for his senior year

CHARLOTTE, NC – Daylon Smothers, an electrifying working again who led Vance Excessive College to the 2020 North Carolina Excessive College Athletic Affiliation Class 4AA soccer state championship, as a sophomore, and returned to steer the Cougars to the 2021 title recreation, after the varsity modified its title to Julius L. Chambers Excessive, has been dominated ineligible by the NCHSAA for the 2022 season after transferring to West Charlotte Excessive.

Smothers, one of many high working again recruits within the nation, rushed for 1,581 yards and 28 touchdowns final fall. This adopted a sophomore marketing campaign wherein he gained 1,206 yards and scored 12 touchdowns in 10 video games. In a consensus of the foremost recruiting companies, he’s rated the tenth greatest recruit in North Carolina and thirteenth greatest working again within the nation. He has scholarship affords from Alabama, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Tennessee, South Carolina, Michigan and a bunch of different Energy 5 packages, together with North Carolina State, which is taken into account the favourite to win his companies.

In April, the 5-foot-11, 185-pound four-star recruit took to Instagram to submit an 11-minute video wherein he introduced his intentions to play his senior season at West Charlotte.

Final week, a number of North Carolina newspapers reported that Smothers had been dominated ineligible for his senior 12 months. Desmond Smothers, Dylan’s father, confirmed the information and the truth that the choice is being appealed, to the The Information & Observer.

“I don’t have a lot to say,” Desmond Smothers informed The Observer. “We do have attorneys concerned. It’s simply an unlucky scenario and my son is harmless on this entire factor. He had nothing to do with an handle change or something like that. I hate he’s been put in the midst of this as a toddler. I’m assembly with the attorneys this week and I don’t know once we’ll go earlier than the (CMS Board of Schooling) and attraction it. However hopefully, it’ll be quickly, so we are able to think about what’s essential.”

Smothers attended Ranson Center College, a feeder college to West Charlotte, however moved to dwell together with his father so he might attend Vance previous to his freshman 12 months. Not too long ago, nevertheless, he moved again together with his mom in Charlotte so he might attend West Charlotte within the fall.

If he’s not profitable together with his attraction it’s not probably that Smothers will stay sidelined within the fall. His choices embrace transferring to a personal college within the North Carolina Impartial Faculties Athletic Affiliation (NCISAA) or enrolling in a prep college.