With heavy heart, Torrey Smith comes up big in Ravens win

"You're never going to forget it," Harbaugh said of his team's failure at the Philadelphia Eagles last Sunday. "But anytime you lose, it creates an opportunity. When you win, you look at everything really hard and try to build on it. When you lose, man, that sting really forces you to dig deep. All of us. It's human nature."

Maybe that can begin to explain how Smith came to catch two touchdown passes among six receptions for 127 yards in a 31-30 come-from-behind victory against the Patriots. It all came about 20 hours after Smith received a phone call sometime after 1a.m. ET, notifying him his 19-year-old brother lost control of the motorcycle he was driving and was killed when he ran into a utility pole.

Smith left the hotel to join his family some two hours south in rural Virginia, and who could blame him if he didn't return to Baltimore by sundown for the game? But there was Smith, dressed in purple and black, choking back tears during a pregame moment of silence for Jones.

Some looked on in disbelief as Smith arrived for pregame warm-ups, jogging and high-kneeing across the field by himself, his dreadlocked hair bouncing about his ears. And they lit up like firecrackers when Smith leaped above Kyle Arrington for a second-quarter touchdown. After his first score, he pointed immediately to the sky, knelt for a moment, then rose and pointed upward again.

Sunday, one of Smith's six siblings surveyed the crash site with a small group of mourners. He picked tiny, reflective bits of debris and tossed them into the air. Smith was something of a father figure to the six children while their single mother worked long hours and dealt with legal troubles.

Smith tweeted a picture of him and Tevin on Sunday morning. Wrote Smith: "I can't believe my little brother is gone be thankful for your loved ones and tell them you love them this is the hardest thing ever."

Jones graduated in 2010 from King George High School in King George, Va., where he played football and basketball. He was a quarterback on coach Jeff Smith's team.

"Every time I'd see him it was the same old Tevin," Jeff Smith said Sunday. "Big smile. Big jokester and a prankster. Every time you saw him, what you see was what you got."

The coach and family friend described Torrey Smith's extended family as very big and very close-knit. Torrey, 23, attended Stafford High School in Falmouth, Va., before attending the University of Maryland and eventually being selected by the Ravens in the second round of last year's draft.

While in college, Torrey visited King George High on several occasions to see Tevin play football or basketball.

"They stick together," Jeff Smith said of Jenkins' extended family. "It's all about family with them."