Alex Smith on Leg Injury, Amazing Comeback, Being Replaced by Mahomes & Kap
Trey Wingo Presents: Half-Forgotten History
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Show Notes
Former NFL Quarterback Alex Smith joins Trey to talk about his early struggles with the 49ers, coming out of nowhere at the University of Utah to be the No. 1 overall pick in the 2005 NFL draft, how his close friend's suicide made him deal with mental health issues, and how things changed in SF with Colin Kaepernick's emergence.
He then delves into what he learned from Andy Reid's coaching with the Kansas City Chiefs, his early impressions of Patrick Mahomes as a rookie, his gruesome broken leg injury in 2018), the intense challenges in the hospital to save his leg and his life, when he considered the return to the NFL, and his first game back in 2020 against Aaron Donald and the Rams.