Still on his first NFL contract, coming off a sterling second season at that bargain rate for Washington, Kendall Fuller had zero notion he was potential trade fodder.
So on the night of Jan. 30, he went bowling — not “very well, either,” he remembers — then to a restaurant with a friend.
That’s where he was when The Star broke the news that Alex Smith had been traded to Washington for a 2018 third-round draft pick and a player to be named later.
In group chats he began “kind of playing around, like, ‘What if it’s me?