{"id":127844,"date":"2025-09-08T02:34:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T02:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/127844\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T02:34:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T02:34:09","slug":"jets-arian-smith-not-targeted-in-nfl-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/127844\/","title":{"rendered":"Jets&#8217; Arian Smith: Not targeted in NFL debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"VideoPlayer-backgroundImage\" alt=\"default-cbs-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/video-slate.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nfl\/teams\/NYJ\/new-york-jets\/\" aria-label=\"home team page\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"TeamLogo-image\" alt=\"team logo\" src=\"https:\/\/sports.cbsimg.net\/fly\/images\/team-logos\/423.svg\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                                                <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nfl\/players\/3163930\/smith\/fantasy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Smith<\/a> wasn&#8217;t targeted and had a 31-yard kickoff return in Sunday&#8217;s 34-32 loss to the Steelers.<\/p>\n<p>Smith got the final kickoff return opportunity of the game for the <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nfl\/teams\/NYJ\/new-york-jets\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jets<\/a> after Kene Nwangwu (hamstring) got hurt and Xavier Gipson lost a costly fumble on a kickoff return. Smith&#8217;s speed could help the rookie fourth-round pick out of Georgia factor in as a deep threat on offense down the line, but his contributions will likely be limited primarily to special teams early on.<\/p>\n<p>        More News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Smith wasn&#8217;t targeted and had a 31-yard kickoff return in Sunday&#8217;s 34-32 loss to the Steelers. Smith got&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[46948,49,48,6116,1723,514,82],"class_list":["post-127844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-arian-smith","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fantasy-football","tag-new-york-jets","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}