Quarterback · New York Jets

Geno Smith

No. 7 · 14th season

Geno Smith is back where it all started — and nothing about that is simple

There is a version of this story that is a neat circle. Geno Smith, who began his NFL career with the New York Jets, is now back with them — traded from the Las Vegas Raiders in the offseason, returning to the city that first gave him a shot.

The arc in between is anything but neat. Smith spent years as someone else's backup, the player everyone had an opinion on, before landing in Seattle and becoming exactly the kind of starter people said he'd never be. He earned it quietly, in a place far from where his story began.

Now the Jets have brought him back. Whether that is a full-circle moment or just a roster move, the people in that building know what they are getting — and so does he.

What he does with a second chapter in the same place is the only question left worth asking.

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