2012: Named to the PFL Academic Honor Roll…Nominated for the Allstate AFCA Good Works Team…Completed 60-of-100 passes with two touchdowns and an interception on the season…Also rushed 19 times for 27 yards and caught six passes for 50 yards…Posted 681 yards of total offense…Added 77 all-purpose yards…Played in six games, starting five…Earned team’s offensive player of the game award against UVa.-Wise, going 21-for-33 with 200 yards passing and a touchdown…Served as game captain against Shorter…Tallied a school record 336 yards passing on 29-of-45 attempts with a touchdown, adding 42 yards rushing against Shorter…Caught three passes for 20 yards against Valparaiso…Earned a letter…
2011: Named to the PFL Academic Honor Roll…Passed for several school single season records in his first season as a Camels with 1,965 yards, 14 touchdowns, 179 completions, 313 attempts and total offense at 2,254 yards…Passed for over 200 yards four times, including a CU single game high 290 in Campbell’s 26-20 come from behind triple overtime win at Davidson, adding two touchdowns through the air and another on the ground, gathering his second consecutive PFL Offensive Player of the Week honor…Rushed for three scores while passing for one in Campbell’s 48-24 win over San Diego, earning PFL Offensive Player of the Week accolades…Recorded 172 yards passing and two touchdowns at Old Dominion, going 20-for-40 with an interception…Connected on 7-of-10 passes for 69 yards and a touchdown in a win over Apprentice…Passed for two touchdowns on 20-of-37 tries for 189 yards against Jacksonville…Notched 263 yards on 28-of-50 passing with 32 yards rushing at Drake…Went 15-of-19 for 202 yards and two scores in a win over Butler…Passed for 83 yards and a touchdown while rushing for 82 yards and a score in a win at Marist…Collected 139 yards passing with a touchdown, adding 12 yards and a score rushing in a win over Morehead State…Posted 133 yards passing and 16 rushing at Valparaiso…Passed for 250 yards and rushed for 44, adding a touchdown each passing and on the ground at Georgia State…Started all 11 Campbell games…Earned a letter…
2008-2010 (SMU): Played two seasons and redshirted a year at Southern Methodist University…played in 13 games as a linebacker, quarterback and on special teams in 2010...recorded a tackle against Washington State and a rushing attempt against Navy…worked as a back-up quarterback in 2009 and scored a rushing touchdown on a seven-yard score in the team’s win over UAB to help the team snap a 17-game Conference USA losing streak…played in 11 games…saw extensive time against Houston, passing for 19 yards and running for 68 more…named to the C-USA Commissioner’s Honor Roll…redshirted the 2008 season…
Prep: A three-year football letterwinner at Rockwall High School…a two-star Rivals.com and Scout.com prospect…threw for 2,880 yards and 26 touchdowns while only throwing three interceptions as a senior…completed 64.2 percent of his pass attempts…also ran for 178 yards…ended his career completing 350 of his 535 passes (65.4 percent) for 4,707 yards and 44 touchdowns and just seven interceptions…also ran for 22 touchdowns throughout his career…also lettered in basketball…
Personal: Full name is Braden H. Smith…born 2/15/89 in Dallas, Texas …son of Kelly and Scott Smith…has an older brother, Shea…his brother played football at Air Force as a quarterback (2005-08)…his father played football at Baylor and was part of the team that won the 1980 SWC Championship…had another relative, Robert Smith, that played football at SMU…earned an English degree from SMU and will pursue a master’s degree in education from Campbell with aspirations of being a coach at the collegiate level…
