{"id":200703,"date":"2025-12-19T20:17:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T20:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/200703\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T20:17:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T20:17:08","slug":"charlie-smyth-signs-three-year-deal-with-new-orleans-saints-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/200703\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlie Smyth signs three-year deal with New Orleans Saints \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Charlie Smyth<\/a> has been elevated to the New Orleans Saints 53-man roster and has signed a new three-year contract with the NFL<\/a> team.<\/p>\n

It comes after the former Down Gaelic football goalkeeper has made three consecutive appearances for the Saints and accumulated 17 points \u2013 successfully making four out of five field-goal attempts and registering five from five with his extra point efforts.<\/p>\n

On his regular season debut against the Miami Dolphins three weeks ago, he announced himself Stateside by drilling over a 56-yard field goal. He also had an onside kick recovered late in that game, with recoveries averaging only 5 per cent for the last three NFL seasons.<\/p>\n

Last Sunday, Smyth took centrestage in his own dream by kicking the winning score for the Saints with just two seconds remaining against the Carolina Panthers.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe last few days have just been crazy, it\u2019s kind of been the result of a lot of quiet work in the background these past 18 months,\u201d Smyth told The Irish Times.<\/p>\n

Smyth is the first player to make the transition from Gaelic football to NFL without playing in the US college system.<\/p>\n

Irish-born Daniel Whelan is punter for the Green Bay Packers in the NFL, while Jude McAtamney got a chance in the league this year, but missed two extra-point attempts, one crucially in the fourth quarter, as the New York Giants lost by a point. The Derry man was cut from the team, and then the practice squad, showing the cut-throat nature of the sport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charlie Smyth has been elevated to the New Orleans Saints 53-man roster and has signed a new three-year…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200704,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[93354,61,60,19147,112],"class_list":["post-200703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-charlie-smyth","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200703","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=200703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}