After spending days in the hospital and enduring multiple surgeries on his leg, Washington Redskins quarterback Alex Smith finally has been released, with an encouraging prognosis, no less, per league sources.
There is some optimism, but hardly certainty, that Smith will be able to resume his NFL career, though the priority for now is simply recovering from a spiral leg fracture that became infected after multiple surgeries.
Smith's future is at stake, but so is that of the Redskins.
Taking the personal and most important component out of it, Washington would struggle to overcome the setback it would create if Smith were unable to return to football.