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  Alex Smith's Return Is the Most Triumphant Thing We'll See on an NFL Field in 2020 Give Alex Smith the Comeback Player of the Year award right now. One of the few things I imagine most of us would agree on is that Alex Smith didn’t need to  jog onto the field Sunday against the Rams  to earn the Comeback Player of the Year Award. I’d like to think he’s had it all along, since the moment  he skirted death in the hospital , the moment he rehabilitated a horrifically broken leg, the moment he stunned us all and decided he wasn’t done playing football and the moment he threw his first pass in practice. If anything, the award would be too small a gesture to signify what his return to the field means for those around him. Brad Mills-USA TODAY Sports Still, there he was in the driving rain, replacing an injured Kyle Allen while his family watched on. It’s difficult to understand what that moment must have been like, especially given that, for the lot of us, it elicited th...