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Wilmington, North Carolina once had a thriving Black middle class and an elected interracial government. In 1898 white supremacists used violence to overthrow that government, kill Black residents and drive many others from the city.
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| Position | Fullback |
| Personal information | |
| Born | March 22, 1996 Plano, Texas, U.S. |
| Listed height | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) |
| Listed weight | 232 lb (105 kg) |
| Career information | |
| High school | Francis Howell (St. Charles, Missouri) |
| College | Northern Illinois (2015–2018) |
| NFL draft | 2019: 6th round, 175th overall pick |
| Career history | |
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* Offseason or practice squad member only | |
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| Stats at Pro Football Reference | |
Sutton Smith (born March 22, 1996) is an American former professional football fullback. He played college football for the Northern Illinois Huskies, mainly as a linebacker.
Smith played running back for Francis Howell High School in Saint Charles, Missouri.[2] As a senior in 2014, Smith led the Vikings to an 11–1 record[3] before losing to Rockhurst High School (Kansas City, MO) in the Class 6 semi-final playoff game.[4] Smith rushed for 2,046 yards and scored 32 touchdowns, 27 were rushing touchdowns[5] and was named a 1st Team All-State running back by the Missouri Football Coaches Association[6] and the Missouri Sports Writers Association.[7] Channel 5 (KSDK) named Smith their Large School Player of the Year[8] and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch named him their All-Metro Offensive Player of the Year.[5] In 2014 Smith was a top 20 recruit in the State of Missouri and was listed as a 3-star recruit by ESPN[9] and 247Sports.[10]
Smith redshirted his freshman season at Northern Illinois University (NIU), to focus on making the switch from running back to linebacker.
In his redshirt sophomore season, Smith led the nation in sacks (14), tackles for loss (29.5), and quarterback pressures (73).[11][12] This led to him being a 2017 consensus All-American, including first team selections by the Walter Camp Foundation and the Football Writers Association of America.[13] He was also named Mid-American Conference (MAC) defensive player of the year.[14] Smith became the 2nd player in NIU history since LeShon Johnson in 1993 to be named a Consensus All-American.[15] Smith broke NIU's single season tackles for loss record previously held by Scott Kellar (20). His Football Bowl Subdivision leading 14 quarterback sacks broke the single season sack record (12), previously held by Kellar (1984) and Larry English (2006). Smith was a finalist for the 2017 Ted Hendricks Award as the nation's best defensive end.[16] The Maxwell Football Club named Smith a semi-finalist for the Chuck Bednarik Award, the nation's Most Outstanding Defensive Player of the Year.[17]
In his redshirt junior season, Smith led the nation in tackles for loss (27) and was third in the nation in sacks (15).[18] Smith helped lead the 2018 NIU Huskies to a MAC West Division championship as well as a 30-29 win over Buffalo in the 2018 Marathon MAC Championship Game.[19] Following the game, Smith was named the game's Most Valuable Defensive player.[19] For a second consecutive year, Smith was named a First-Team All-American,[20] including first-team selections by the Associated Press,[21] ESPN,[22] SI.com,[23] CollegeFootballNews.com[24] and USA Today.[25] Smith was a second-team selection by The Walter Camp Football Association,[26] American Football Coaches Association,[27] Pro Football Focus (PFF),[28] and the Football Writers Association of America.[29] Smith was also a finalist for the 2018 Ted Hendricks Award[30] as the nation's best defensive end. PFF ranked Smith 24th on their list of the best 101 college football players in America.[31] The MAC named Smith a First-Team Defensive End and MAC Defensive Player of the Year.[32] Smith also won the Vern Smith Leadership Award which is the football MVP award for the MAC.[32] Sutton Smith is only the third defensive player in the history of the MAC to win the Vern Smith MVP honor, joining Central Michigan linebacker Ray Bentley (1982) and NIU defensive end Larry English (2008).[33]
On December 20, 2018, Smith announced that he would forgo his final year of eligibility to declare for the 2019 NFL draft.[34]
During his collegiate career, Smith was a 2-time First-Team All-American, a 2-time First-Team MAC Defensive End, and 2-Time MAC Defensive Player of the Year.[35] He is the only player in NIU school history to achieve these honors in back-to-back seasons and is the most decorated defensive player in NIU football history.[36][37] In 2019, both Northern Illinois Football and the College Football Hall of Fame named Smith to their All-Decade Teams.[38][39]
| Height | Weight | Arm length | Hand span | 40-yard dash | 20-yard shuttle | Three-cone drill | Vertical jump | Broad jump | Bench press | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 ft 0+3⁄8 in (1.84 m) |
233 lb (106 kg) |
30+3⁄4 in (0.78 m) |
9 in (0.23 m) |
4.69 s | 4.32 s | 6.75 s | 31.5 in (0.80 m) |
9 ft 10 in (3.00 m) |
25 reps | |||
| All values from NFL Combine[40] | ||||||||||||
Smith was drafted by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the sixth round, 175th overall, of the 2019 NFL Draft.[41] He was waived on August 31, 2019.[42]
On October 22, 2019, Smith was signed to the practice squad of the Jacksonville Jaguars, but was released a week later.[43]
On November 6, 2019, Smith was signed to the Steelers practice squad, but was released the next day.[44] On November 12, he was re-signed to the practice squad.[45] He was released on November 18.
On December 18, 2019, Smith was signed to the Seattle Seahawks practice squad.[46] He signed a reserve/future contract with the Seahawks on January 14, 2020.[47] He was waived on July 26, 2020.[48]
Smith signed with the New Orleans Saints on May 14, 2021.[49] He was released on August 27, 2021.[50]
On November 15, 2021, Smith was signed to the Las Vegas Raiders practice squad, after a season-ending injury to fullback Alec Ingold.[51] He was elevated to the active roster on November 21, and played in his first career NFL game, getting snaps on special teams vs the Cincinnati Bengals in week 11. He was elevated again for the week 12 game of the Raiders versus the Dallas Cowboys, before being signed to a two-year contract on December 3.[52] He also played in week 13 against the Washington Football Team, in week 14 against the Kansas City Chiefs, and week 15 against the Cleveland Browns, mostly on special teams and limited snaps on offense, not registering a rushing attempt. He was released on May 20, 2022.[53]
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Sutton Smith (born March 22, 1996) is an American former professional football fullback. He played college football for the Northern Illinois Huskies, mainly as a linebacker.
Brian Sutton Smith (July 15, 1924 – March 7, 2015), better known as Brian Sutton-Smith, was a play theorist who spent his lifetime attempting to discover the cultural significance of play in human life, arguing that any useful definition of play must apply to both adults and children. He demonstrated that children are not innocent in their play and that adults are indeed guilty in theirs. In both cases play pretends to assist them in surmounting their Darwinian struggles for survival. His book Play As Emotional Survival is a response to his own deconstruction of play theories in his work, The Ambiguity of Play (1997, Harvard University Press). Sutton-Smith's interdisciplinary approach included research into play history and cross cultural studies of play, as well as research in psychology, education, and folklore. He maintained that the interpretation of play must involve all of its forms, from child's play to gambling, sports, festivals, imagination, and nonsense.
Brian Sutton is the name of: Brian Charles Sutton (born 1938), British mycologist Bryan Sutton (born 1973), American acoustic guitarist Brian Sutton-Smith (1924–2015), New Zealand play theorist
The Strong National Museum of Play (also known as just The Strong Museum or simply the Strong) is part of The Strong in Rochester, New York, United States. Established in 1969 and initially based on the personal collection of Rochester native Margaret Woodbury Strong, the museum opened to the public in 1982, after several years of planning, cataloguing, and exhibition development for the museum's new building in downtown Rochester. For at least fifteen years after it opened, the mission of the museum was to interpret the social and cultural history of average Americans between 1830 and 1940, under the direction of H.J. Swinney and William T. Alderson. Mrs. Strong's collections of dolls and toys, American and European decorative arts, prints, paintings, Japanese crafts, and advertising ephemera provided a firm foundation for this mission, and were supplemented with collections purchased and donated to more fully support the museum's early mission. The museum received considerable local and national publicity/support as well as substantial financial support from the National Endowment for the Humanities' Exhibitions and Public Programs division. In the 1990s, the museum's Board of Trustees and director changed the museum's mission to collecting, preserving, and interpreting the history of play. Since then, it has refined and increased its collections (hundreds of thousands of items), and expanded thrice, in 1997, 2006, and 2023. The museum is now one of six Play Partners of The Strong, which is also home to the National Toy Hall of Fame, the International Center for the History of Electronic Games, the World Video Game Hall of Fame, and the Brian Sutton-Smith Library and Archives of Play, and produces the American Journal of Play.
Before the 1921 destruction of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, Black residents had created a remarkable center of business and community life. The district included stores, professional offices, entertainment venues and homes owned by Black citizens. Understanding Greenwood means learning what was built—not only what was burned.
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