Bleacherreport.com
With Alex Smith being traded to the Kansas City Chiefs for
future draft picks, both the Chiefs and the 49ers came out smelling like a
rose. The 49ers gained draft picks to continue to build their team and the
Chiefs gained a play caller that knows how to manage a football game.
Unfortunately for fantasy players this trade means very, very little.
Alex Smith was drafted with the first pick in the 2005 NFL
draft to the San Francisco 49ers and in his first few years with the Niners he
made little if any impact on the team. The team had a carousel of coaches and
offensive coordinators which didn’t help the young quarterback with his
transition from college to the NFL.
Over the last two years however Smith had begun to show
signs of promise leading the 49ers to the NFC championship game only to fall to
the future Super Bowl champions New York Giants. Through the first 10 weeks of
the 2012 season Smith showed signs of brilliance only to fall back into
mediocrity. As the starting quarterback he led the Niners to a 6-2-1 mark
getting injured in his final game as a starter a 24-24 tie to the St. Louis
Rams.
Although Smith was benched for rising star Colin Kaepernick
his stats for the first half of the season were 13 touchdowns, 5 interceptions
and a 104.1 quarterback rating. Smith also completed over 70 percent of his
passes being very effective and efficient with the football.
Those stats might make you wonder why Smith was benched,
however, that is not the purpose of this article.
In 2013 will we see the Alex Smith that is willing to take
shots down the field with an explosive receiver in Dwayne Bowe (Although there
have been trade rumors Bowe is still a part of the team) or will we see the
check-down Smith? I say that we will see the exact same Smith that we saw when
he was with the Niners, a game manager with very little turnovers.
This means that Alex Smith is going to remain at or near 15
in my quarterback ratings for the 2013 season.
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