Ryan Fitzpatrick felt like ‘biggest a–hole ever’ after this text to Alex Smith
NY Post
Ryan Fitzpatrick thought he was doing a nice thing when he sent a supportive text message to fellow NFL quarterback Alex Smith in 2018, after Smith’s devastating leg injury. But Fitzpatrick ended up feeling like “the biggest a–hole ever” after what Smith endured.
Smith, the 36-year-old who announced his retirement on Monday, suffered a compound fracture of the tibia and fibula in his right leg on Nov. 18, 2018 during Washington’s game against the Houston Texans. Four years earlier, Fitzpatrick suffered a fractured left tibia with the Texans and recovered well. Fitzpatrick seemingly didn’t know the full extent of Smith’s injury, and certainly couldn’t predict what would happen next. Smith ended up needing 17 surgeries and nearly lost his leg, having developed a flesh-eating bacteria that resulted in sepsis, a life-threatening condition caused by the body’s poor response to infection.
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