Alex Smith has a better chance to ever win a Super Bowl than a 2nd round rookie who is going to spend his first few years with a dumpster fire of an organization. (not that ours is great either in recent years).
Smith isn't a Manning or a Brady of course, but he is the kind of guy who has shown he can play well on a team that is talented and otherwise ready to contend.
At this point in his career he is more or less an known quantity if he's healthy, which is not a great but an above average QB.
And before anybody says "Woohoo, true fan, happy with above average", I wasn't a fan of the compensation for him, but I think he was the best player of the available options this offseason. It's hard to argue that IMO
|