The NFL instituted a lockout prohibiting players from working out, meeting or practicing with their teams after the collective bargaining agreement expired Friday night. The league and players had been negotiating a new collective bargaining agreement, but talks broke down. Players decertified their union and filed a new suit in federal court alleging that the league's lockout of players is wrong and asking the court to overturn it..So you don't have to debate whether he can win he has shown he can win. The 49ers would have happily kept playing him if Colin Kaepernick were not a superhero. And Smith is not yet 29..

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