Geno Smith, arrested over the weekend and charged with his second DUI in three seasons, was never in danger of being kicked off the Alabama football team, Tide coach Nick Saban said.
Saban addressed Smith's status Monday after practice, sharing few details regarding what appears to be an internal punishment on the football side of things following the arrest.
"A little disappointed in Geno Smith," Saban said after practice, via 247Sports. "When he does a few things that he needs to do over the next few days, and he's going to have quite a bit of things that he has to do in the future, which I'm not going to be willing to share with anybody -- that's kind of a private matter -- then he'll be back on the field and we'll allow him to practice again.
"But our focus right now is to help Geno in every way that we can, do things that we need to do so that he can be a productive person, a productive student and productive player. He's always been a good student and he's always done a good job and he's always been a good competitor on our team and has always set a pretty good example, in terms of how he's played."
Smith has been a three-year player for Saban as a reserve in the secondary, and with Landon Collins and Nick Perry gone, there is an expectation that he will play a big role this fall. In terms of impact from weekend arrests -- isn't it a bummer that we have to say it like this -- it fell below the radar in comparison to the dismissal of Jonathan Taylor.
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