This was the Alex Smith comeback years in the making.
Months later, in the spring of 2021, he stood with his family on a slope in Big Sky, Mont., ready for the next part of his life.
Rehabilitating his injury for his football comeback, Smith said, “was always just a means to get the rest of my life back.” As a kid, he’d enjoyed the slopes with his parents and siblings.
because his contract barred him from doing so, and he hoped his future could include creating wintry memories with his three children.
So Smith stood on top of a mountain on a leg rebuilt through 17 surgeries (“or 18,” he said.
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