Fresh off of his Comeback Player of the Year award, former Washington Football Team quarterback Alex Smith has announced that he is retiring from the NFL.
He made the announcement in a video shared to his Instagram page saying that although he has "plenty of snaps" left in him, he "can't wait to see what else is possible."
Smith spent 16 years in the NFL with his last 2 years playing in Washington D.C. During the 2018 season, a gruesome hit in the game against the game against the Texans left him with a compound fracture that broke both the tibia and fibula in his right leg. After his first surgery to repair the damage, Smith contracted an infection and went through 16 more surgeries to prevent him from having to amputate his leg.
Read more about his journey here.