49ers Smith Can Still Prove He Was the Right Choice Over Rodgers

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Published: November 20, 2009

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... Joe Montana jersey, who's better: Aaron Rodgers or Alex Smith?

Almost reflexively you answer Rodgers. I mean, really, you don't even think about it for more than a second.

Rodgers has the better numbers, he's had more immediate success, he's never been called a bust, and he was picked within the top three rounds in your fantasy draft.

Smith, by comparison, has a career 12-21 record, has never finished a season with more touchdown passes than interceptions, and wasn't taken at all in most drafts because he opened the season as San Francisco's backup.

In 33 career starts Smith has never thrown for more than 293 yards in any game. In 25 starts Rodgers has exceeded that figure eight times.

The two men will forever be linked by the 2005 draft when the 49ers, with the first pick, chose Smith out of the University of Utah, over local boy Rodgers, who went to Cal.

Yet while their media-driven rivalry seems on the surface to be as one-sided as ...

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