Washington Football Team quarterback Alex Smith sustained a calf strain in his right leg Sunday against the San Francisco 49ers and appears to have avoided significant injury.
After Washington’s 23-15 win, head coach Ron Rivera told the media the veteran quarterback was experiencing soreness and tightness in his right leg, the same leg he broke and underwent 17 surgeries on over the last two years.
“He strained the calf, basically," Rivera said, before adding Smith could have returned to the game if his replacement, Dwayne Haskins, suffered an injury.
“What happened was Alex developed some tightness and muscle soreness as he was pushing off that right leg,” Rivera told the media. “As we ended the half, they took him to get X-rays. The X-rays were fine. There was no issue there.”
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Smith did not return out of "an abundance of caution," Rivera added.
“But he had the soreness, and it was tight. And so we decided not to have him go back out there in the second half. We had him there in case of emergency. He stayed on the sideline and stayed loose and tried to loosen it up. It just stayed tight. He said he couldn’t get it loose,” Rivera said Sunday.
Smith will undergo tests on the calf this week and his status for Sunday’s game against the Seattle Seahawks is unclear.
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Smith and the offense struggled in the first half Sunday, throwing for just 57 yards on eight-for-19 passing. His final attempt of the game before Haskins replaced him was an interception.
Haskins, playing for the first time since he was benched after a 1-3 start to the season, failed to impress, with seven-for-12 passing for 51 yards.
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