DeVonta Smith has had quite the journey towards becoming a Super Bowl champion and the first-ever Alabama drafted player to score a touchdown in the big game.

In 2016, Smith led his high school team to the state championship game. But on the same Superdome field where he claimed his first Super Bowl victory last night, his team fell short in the biggest game of their lives.

A dejected and tearful DeVonta Smith sits on the floor of the Superdome following a 40-36 loss to Lutcher in the LHSAA Class 3A State Championship (12/10/2016) in his senior year of high school. DeVonta would go on to win two National Championships at Alabama, the Heisman Trophy… pic.twitter.com/3a91Ikaxgc

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As heartbroken as Smith was after the narrow defeat in the final game of his high school career, it would be hard to convey to him then just how successful he would become and the accomplishments he would have over the next decade.

Just the very next year as a freshman, Smith would deliver arguably the most iconic play in the history of Alabama Football on the 2nd and 26 overtime bomb from Tua Tagovailoa to defeat the Georgia Bulldogs in overtime of the national championship game.

Following two more stellar seasons for the Tide, Smith shocked many when he elected to return for his senior season in 2020. He would go on that year to deliver one of the best seasons in the history of the sport of college football, winning the Heisman trophy and helping Alabama win another national title, this time in undefeated fashion.

Becoming a first round selection for the Philadelphia Eagles, Smith has already racked up two 1,000 yard seasons in his four years in the NFL.

On Sunday night on the field where he was so defeated just eight years earlier, Smith would make another massive play in his long line of big plays, catching a long touchdown reception from former Crimson Tide teammate Jalen Hurts to effectively put the game on ice and bring the Eagles a Super Bowl title:

Love to see it! @JalenHurts 👏 @DeVontaSmith_6
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Smith became just the fifth player in the history of the NFL to win a Heisman, a national championship, and a Super Bowl, joining a legendary list including Charles Woodson, Reggie Bush, Tony Dorsett, and Marcus Allen.

With his name now etched alongside some of the greatest players to ever play the game, Smith has found a way to raise his immortal status in Tuscaloosa somehow even higher.

Smith will not forget about the place where it all started in Louisiana all those years ago, but he got the rare chance that not many do: to finish unfinished business.

And he wasn’t going to let that chance go to waste.