As confirmed in a staff report from the Salisbury Post on Monday night, former Carolina Panthers defensive end and North Carolina native Chris Smith has died at the age of 31. The circumstances or cause around Smith’s passing have not been made public.
Smith was born in Salisbury on Feb. 11, 1992. He attended West Rowan High School in Mount Ulla, N.C., where he starred throughout the program’s state championship runs in 2008 and 2009.
