{"id":17731,"date":"2025-07-23T10:20:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T10:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/17731\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T10:20:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T10:20:07","slug":"green-bay-packers-mark-mcnamee-joins-roster-before-nfl-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/17731\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Bay Packers: Mark McNamee joins roster before NFL season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Irish kicker Mark McNamee has signed a contract with the Green Bay Packers in the NFL.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 25-year-old from Wicklow was part of the 2025 International Player Pathway programme and took part in NFL Combine in March.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A former goalkeeper for his Gaelic club Ballyboden St Endas, McNamee spent June with the BC Lions in the Canadian Football League before signing with the Packers on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He becomes the second Irish kicker on their roster, joining Wicklow-born Dan Whelan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Alongside <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/american-football\/articles\/cy9q7ly4lz4o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Charlie Smyth at the New Orleans Saints<\/a> and Jude McAtamney of the New York Giants, there are now four kickers from the island of Ireland plying their trade in the NFL.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Packers have won more NFL championships than any other team (13), including four Super Bowl wins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Irish kicker Mark McNamee has signed a contract with the Green Bay Packers in the NFL. The 25-year-old&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17732,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":["post-17731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17731","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=17731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}