Comments on: In a nearly two-hour interview on a national football podcast, DeVonta Smith, the young star of the Philadelphia Eagles, broke down for the first time. Tears streamed down his face as he opened up about the real struggles of his childhood — the years his family lived in financial hardship, the long walks to practice because they didn’t have a reliable car, the tournaments he couldn’t afford to join, and the painful reality of being rejected over and over by youth football programs. DeVonta Smith spoke through sobs: “People always see me calm and smiling on the field, but no one knows that my mom had to sell our only family home in Amite City… Binbin

Comments on: In a nearly two-hour interview on a national football podcast, DeVonta Smith, the young star of the Philadelphia Eagles, broke down for the first time. Tears streamed down his face as he opened up about the real struggles of his childhood — the years his family lived in financial hardship, the long walks to practice because they didn’t have a reliable car, the tournaments he couldn’t afford to join, and the painful reality of being rejected over and over by youth football programs. DeVonta Smith spoke through sobs: “People always see me calm and smiling on the field, but no one knows that my mom had to sell our only family home in Amite City… Binbin https://nflinsight360.com/posts/in-a-nearly-two-hour-interview-on-a-national-football-podcast-devonta-smith-the-young-star-of-the-philadelphia-eagles-broke-down-for-the-first-time-tears-streamed-down-his-face-as-he-opened-up-abo-binbin/ NFLInsight360 Sat, 27 Dec 2025 13:56:21 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2