596 days. That’s how long Jaylon Smith had been waiting to get back on a football field and play a competitive game. Along the way there were plenty of doubters that he would ever return from the gruesome injury to the knee suffered in the Fiesta Bowl two college seasons ago. One of the people who never doubted his return was Jaylon Smith.
"Not one moment," [Smith] said. "From the start, it's a been a long journey. Like I've told all of you guys, my clear-eye view, a focused vision, determined belief, earned dreams, it's got me here today and it's something where I really appreciate the Jones [family] and everybody with the Cowboys organization for believing in me.