
This time last year, Geno Smith was an NFL poster boy for quarterbacks for all the wrong reasons.
As a former 2013 second-round pick, Smith crashed and burned with the New York Jets before bouncing around the league with three other teams. He’d eventually find a home with the Seattle Seahawks, but no one took him seriously. He was in Seattle to first be a backup to Russell Wilson, then a one-year veteran stand-in before Pete Carroll and Co. could appropriately move on to their quarterback of the future.