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Geno Smith Signs with Jay-Z’s ‘Roc Nation Agency

By Josh Hill

May 22, 2013; Florham Park, NJ, USA; New York Jets quarterback Geno Smith (7) speaks with members of the media after the New York Jets organized team activities at the Atlantic Health Jets Training Center. Mandatory Credit: Ed Mulholland-USA TODAY Sports
May 22, 2013; Florham Park, NJ, USA; New York Jets quarterback Geno Smith (7) speaks with members of the media after the New York Jets organized team activities at the Atlantic Health Jets Training Center. Mandatory Credit: Ed Mulholland-USA TODAY Sports /
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May 22, 2013; Florham Park, NJ, USA; New York Jets quarterback Geno Smith (7) speaks with members of the media after the New York Jets organized team activities at the Atlantic Health Jets Training Center. Mandatory Credit: Ed Mulholland-USA TODAY Sports
May 22, 2013; Florham Park, NJ, USA; New York Jets quarterback Geno Smith (7) speaks with members of the media after the New York Jets organized team activities at the Atlantic Health Jets Training Center. Mandatory Credit: Ed Mulholland-USA TODAY Sports /

One of the strangest stories to come out of the NFL Draft surrounded Geno Smith’s reasons for his epic tumble into the second round. While a Yahoo! Sports article claimed that scouts were and may still be under the impression the former West Virginia quarterback is a diva, Smith blamed his agent and promptly fired him after his draft slide. He now has found new representation and has signed with Jay-Z’s Roc Nation agency.

Smith continues to battle for the starting job with the Jets and is going head on with Mark Sanchez to try and achieve his goal. Smith has also gotten some New York street cred by signing with Brooklyn’s finest — or at least that had to be the thought process behind it.

Jay-Z’s sports agency is doing exactly what we all thought it would, as it’s luring young athletes hoping to be hip into the ranks. Sports agents are vicious, often times soulless being that have been blamed for driving up salaries around sports and have been linked to numerous lockouts. But if there’s a guy who can chew up and spit out even then cruelest of sports agents, it’s going to be Jay-Z who has failed at nothing he’s tried.

That’s the representation Smith is hoping he can get, and it’s the start of a rebuilding process for his character that has arguably been shattered already by allegations in the press that he’s a diva. So far Smith hasn’t stepped further out of line than anyone else in the league, but the move to join Roc Nation may end up biting him in the end.

Smith will be represented by  Kim Miale, who currently only has two other clients — a kicker and linebacker who both remain inactive. So when Smith says he’s not joining Roc Nation as  an “image thing”, you better believe he’s not joking with an agent like Miale.

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