49ers’ Smith Still Confident He Can Succeed In San Francisco

San Francisco 49ers quarterback Alex Smith has always been a smart guy. One doesn’t graduate from the University of Utah in just two years with a degree in Economics while accumulating a 3.71 GPA by spending the time away from practice playing “Madden” on the X-Box.

The 2004 Mountain West Conference Player of the Year and the first overall pick of the 2005 NFL draft, Smith further proved his mental dexterity by reportedly scoring a 40 (out of a possible 50) in the Wonderlic, the league’s aptitude test for draft-eligible players.

Not only does such a score equate to genius-level intelligence, but it was head and shoulders above the rest of the quarterback competition in the 2005 draft class, with the passers averag...

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