Aaron Rodgers and Alex Smith will always be linked and because they’re playing against each other this week and most journalists are stupid and lazy, it’s time to drag that story out of moth balls and dust it off.
You know it well.
It was the 2005 NFL Draft. The top two quarterbacks were Utah’s Alex Smith and Cal’s Aaron Rodgers. One of them was going to go No. 1 overall to the San Francisco 49ers, but no one was really certain who.
That guy would be Smith, but what no “expert” foresaw was that Rodgers would fall all the way to the end of the first round, where he would become the No.