Alphonso Smith drew 124,173 Wikipedia views in a day

What this article is

Alphonso Smith Jr. was an American professional football player who was a cornerback for four seasons in the National Football League (NFL). Smith played college football for the Wake Forest Demon Deacons, and received consensus All-American honors. He was selected by the Denver Broncos in the second round of the 2009 NFL draft, and also played for the NFL's Detroit Lions.

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 14 edits to this article on 2026-09-03, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• Death
• NFL statistics

What changed that day

The article grew by 445 characters that day. The largest single addition was 175 characters to Death. See everything that changed on 2026-09-03 in Wikipedia's own diff view — that is where the reason for a surge is usually visible, written and sourced by the editors who were following the story.

How this was measured

Views are Wikimedia's own pageview counts for en.wikipedia, filtered to agent=user so automated traffic is excluded. The baseline is the median of the previous 60 days, which is used instead of the mean so that an earlier surge cannot flatten a later one. The multiple is the day's views divided by that median.