On300 DL Nigel Smith making first HBCU visit to Prairie View A&M

MELISSA, Texas — Nigel Smith is coveted by college football bluebloods around the country. He’s bracing for a different sort of visit this weekend.

Smith, an On300 defensive lineman out of Melissa (Tex.) and a top-100 player in the Class of 2024 on the On3 Consensus, will make a visit to Prairie View A&M on Saturday. It’ll be Smith’s first-ever visit to an HBCU, he tells On3.

The four-star defensive lineman has previously made visits to Notre Dame, Ohio State and Oklahoma. He’s also lining up trips to Texas A&M and eyeing more stops at Alabama, LSU, USC and Oregon in the summer.

Smith is the No. 63 overall player in the country on the On3 Consensus, a complete and equally weighted industry-generated average that utilizes all four major recruiting media companies.