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Reports From Georgetown: Andre Smith Doing Drills And Taking Snaps From Scrimmage

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The writer of this blog is lost in the translucent decibels of digital bliss, staring at this tweet. This beautiful, beautiful, beautiful ever-loving tweet.

For the first time in his Bengals career, Bengals offensive tackle Andre Smith is dressed, working out in Georgetown. Training camp was over by the time he signed in 2009 and a February foot procedure, followed with a slow rehabilitation in 2010 that him for a chunk of the preseason.

It looks like andre smith is going to take snaps from scrimmageless than a minute ago via txt Favorite Retweet Reply

What you just heard was the sound of a giddy school girl screaming as if the Beatles were performing on stage.

The road for Smith, which has been chronicled on this very pages for years, has been hard. It began with an aggressive nutrition regiment that resulted in a tremendously unexpected weight loss, followed with a declaration to Andrew Whitworth that it's time for him to step up. Perhaps now we're finally seeing those first steps translate onto the field.