Alex Smith is still blazing the comeback trail.
According to The Athletic’s Rhiannon Walker, Smith was on a practice field this week “working on his drop backs and throwing the ball with two staff members” and slinging it 25-30 yards downfield.
Smith has been around the team plenty over the summer and well into this year, but this seems like the first notable, sizeable piece of football work he’s done that has slipped public.
With the external fixator well behind him and the challenge for a comeback accepted, it sounds like the slow and steady pace continues well out of the spotlight.
With Dwayne Haskins and others on the roster and a new head coach inbound at some point, where Smith fits into the plan is hard to say — but he’s been adamant he isn’t ready to call it a career.
