Alex Smith’s unbelievable comeback from a devastating leg injury in 2020 turned out to be his final NFL season.
On Monday, the free-agent quarterback announced his retirement at the age of 36, after a 14-year NFL career that spanned three teams — the San Francisco 49ers, who chose him first overall in the 2005 NFL draft, the Kansas City Chiefs and the Washington Football Team.
He did so in an incredible two-minute Instagram video that highlighted a career that included 99 wins, but the main focus was that comeback from a horrifying injury, one that all started when someone put a football in his hands as he went through rehabilitation before he eventually ended up playing eight games for WFT in 2020 and going 5-1 in the process:
It’s the end of a terrific career, but also a testament to how much he had to overcome just to play the game again.
