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Alex Smith Can Be Much More Than Just the NFL's Comeback Player of the Year

If Alex Smith plays a single down for the Washington Football Team this season, he deserves the Comeback Player of the Year award.

Even if he takes the field in Week 17 late in the fourth quarter with Washington losing by 24 to the Eagles and does nothing but kneel to kill the clock to end a 4-12 regular season, they should hand Smith the award right then and there and be done with it. League brass could fly the trophy into the stadium via drone if we are still worried about social distancing by then.

Smith's return from a severe leg injury and nearly two years of surgeries, infections and complications promises to be the feel-good story of an NFL season that will need as many of those as it can get, even if his comeback amounts to little more than some token snaps.