Seattle Seahawks: Geno Smith’s Redemption – Pt. 1 Welcome to the NFL
Ed Stein
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Everyone loves a comeback story. This one involves a very unlikely hero, Seattle Seahawks quarterback Geno Smith. Part 1 – Welcome to the NFL.
Editor’s note: This is the first of a multi-part series on Seattle Seahawks’ surprising sensation Geno Smith and his long road to success.
Nine games into the 2022 season, the Seattle Seahawks lead the NFC West Division with a 6-3 record. And they aren’t doing it with Russell Wilson as their quarterback.
Russ and his weary shoulders went to Denver in a pre-draft trade. The Seattle Seahawks received Drew Lock in the deal, but they went ahead and resigned RW3’s backup from the previous two seasons, Geno Smith, to be their QB this year.
Most believed the team would crash and burn with Smith as the starter. As a matter of fact, when the Pacific Northwest Sports staff put out our preseason predictions, only one writer thought the Seahawks would win as many as 6 games all season.
Yours truly went on the QB1 podcast and said Smith was good enough to lose close games. We and most of the football world were dead wrong.
The Seattle Seahawks average the fourth most points per game in the NFL (26.8), and Smith has the third-highest quarterback rating 107.6. It seems as though the once down-and-out QB is in the middle of an incredible redemption story.