Seattle running backs coach Sherman Smith, center, talks with Seahawks ...

AP FILE PHOTO, AUG. 1, 2013 | published: January 29, 2014

Seattle running backs coach Sherman Smith, center, talks with Seahawks backup quarterback Tarvaris Jackson (7) and fullback Michael Robinson (26). Before he was a coach with his second Super Bowl team … before he spent eight years as an NFL player … before he won three Mid-American Conference titles as Miami’s (Ohio) first black quarterback, Smith was a Youngstown teen who couldn’t see past the city limits.