{"id":166659,"date":"2025-11-29T22:22:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T22:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/166659\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T22:22:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T22:22:06","slug":"new-orleans-saints-activate-irish-kicker-smyth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/166659\/","title":{"rendered":"New Orleans Saints activate Irish kicker Smyth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New Orleans Saints have promoted Co Down kicker Charlie Smyth to their active roster ahead of Sunday&#8217;s NFL showdown with the Miami Dolphins.<\/p>\n<p>The Mayobridge man looks set to make his regular season debut for the Saints having been moved up from the practice squad the day before the trip to Florida.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s thought that the struggling Saints had auditioned several candidates for the placekicking role ahead of the Dolphins tie and Smyth has beat out the competition to gain the spot.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Saints\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#Saints<\/a> have elevated K Charlie Smyth to the active roster for Sunday&#8217;s game at the Dolphins<\/p>\n<p>\u27a1\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JDBbexkfOx\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/JDBbexkfOx<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Shift4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@Shift4<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DWdQGb31YV\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/DWdQGb31YV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 New Orleans Saints (@Saints) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Saints\/status\/1994864795267277268\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">November 29, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/us-sport\/2025\/0909\/1532525-smyth-embracing-waiting-in-the-wings-for-saints-moment\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">24-year-old ex-Down goalkeeper<\/a> began his NFL journey at the end of 2023, just six months on from being a Tailteann Cup runner-up with his county. By March of that year, he was the first GAA player to sign a contract with the NFL.<\/p>\n<p>The 2-9 Saints take on the 4-7 Dolphins at 6pm Sunday, Irish time.<\/p>\n<p>                    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New Orleans Saints have promoted Co Down kicker Charlie Smyth to their active roster ahead of Sunday&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166660,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-166659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}