49ers Smith Can Still Prove He Was the Right Choice Over Rodgers

Suppose some stranger comes up to you on the street and asks you, the devoted 49ers fan in your throwback Joe Montana jersey, who's better: Aaron Rodgers or Alex Smith?

Almost reflexively you answer Rodgers. I mean, really, you don't even think about it for more than a second.

Rodgers has the better numbers, he's had more immediate success, he's never been called a bust, and he was picked within the top three rounds in your fantasy draft.

Smith, by comparison, has a career 12-21 record, has never finished a season with more touchdown passes than interceptions, and wasn't taken at all in most drafts because he opened the season as Bleacher Report - San Francisco 49ers
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