{"id":336997,"date":"2025-12-09T11:02:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T11:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/336997\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T11:02:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T11:02:09","slug":"charlie-smyth-kicker-to-make-nfl-home-debut-for-new-orleans-saints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/336997\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlie Smyth: Kicker to make NFL home debut for New Orleans Saints"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">NFL rules say a player can be elevated three times from the practice squad before they must be made a permanent fixture in a team&#8217;s 53-man roster. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That means that if Smyth impresses against the Panthers, the Saints would need to sign him before selecting him for a fourth match.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Smyth earned his opportunity after regular kicker Blake Grupe was waived by the Saints, and he came through a competition against veteran Cade York to earn his shot at the NFL.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Moore said that both players will be &#8220;ready to go&#8221;, but &#8220;we feel good about Charlie&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This is a great opportunity for him. Resiliency? Facing adversity? Perfect,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He gets to have a game where he missed one and he will get to respond the way he needs to.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former Down GAA goalkeeper Smyth had been a member of Saints&#8217; practice squad as part of the NFL&#8217;s international player pathway programme after signing his first contract in March 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He is only the third placekicker from the island of Ireland to feature in a regular NFL game, after Neil O&#8217;Donoghue between 1977 and 1985 and Jude McAtamney in each of the past two seasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NFL rules say a player can be elevated three times from the practice squad before they must be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-336997","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}