Smith was a sixth-round draft choice (No. 174 overall) this year by the 49ers. He played college football at nearby Stanford, where he played in 25 games with 12 starts from 2016-18. Smith caught 70 passes for 1,049 yards and seven touchdowns. In 2018, he earned second-team All-Pac-12 honors after playing in 11 games and finishing with 47 receptions for 635 yards and two touchdowns.

Smith was a first-team all-state player at Marcus High School in Flower Mound, Texas.

He joins a tight ends unit that includes Evan Engram – who leads the team through two games with 17 receptions for 164 yards and a touchdown – Rhett Ellison, Garrett Dickerson (who has been inactive with a quad injury) and Eric Tomlinson, who was acquired off waivers on Sept. 1.

Perkins spent the entire 2018 season on the reserve/non-football injury list after suffering a torn pectoral muscle in an individual offseason workout.