COLLEGE STATION — Emmitt James Smith IV, wearing No. 22 on Florida’s football field, helped lead his team to victory on Saturday — but not how Gators fans with long, sweet memories envisioned.

Coming out of Florida, he was selected ninth overall ... For now, Taylor will have to wait to join Gators legends Emmitt Smith and Jack Youngblood in Canton, hoping that in the next few years ...

He ended up getting scholarship offers from the Florida Gators, his dad’s alma mater ... injuries ending their careers. His father, Emmitt Smith, suffered a key injury to his right shoulder ...