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Five overreactions from Week 1 of the NFL Preseason

WASHINGTON — The NFL Preseason is our annual rite of overreaction to meaningless exhibition play and our opportunity to draw wildly speculative conclusions based on games that don’t actually matter. So now that we’ve got the first week in the books, let’s see what definitive things we can say about the 2015 season that will most certainly actually be proven false.

Quarterback Alex Smith’s grueling road to recovery chronicled in ESPN program

NFL quarterback Alex Smith suffered a gruesome leg injury that put his career in jeopardy and had him fighting for his life, and his long and grueling road to recovery is chronicled in an upcoming one-hour program from ESPN called "Project 11." The leg injury occurred Nov. 18, 2018, in the third quarter of a game between the Washington Redskins and Houston Texans. After being sacked by the Texans' J.J. Watt and Kareem Jackson, Smith suffered a spiral and compound fracture of the right tibia and fibula.
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