Eagles

DeVonta Smith Bought His Mom a House

By Kevin Kinkead

Published: Jun 25th, 2021 · 8:28 AM EDT

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I could watch videos like this all day long.

Here’s first-round Eagles draft pick DeVonta Smith surprising his mom with a new house:

 

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Just wish the video was longer.

Good blurb here from Ed Kracz at SI’s Eagle Maven blog:

Clearly, Smith has not forgotten his roots, which were planted in the Southeastern Louisiana area of Amite City, where his mother worked as a social worker that sometimes put her in harrowing situations.

“Any time she was going to go out and do something with work, I always asked if I could come,” said Smith in an early May interview. “…The job she was doing, she was going into family’s houses and taking their children away from them. 

“It’s not always the easiest job. I heard things that happened, and it wasn’t so safe. So that wasn’t something that you wanted your mother to be in, just to be in a situation like that.”

Smith signed his four-year, $20 million deal earlier this month.