Kicker Charlie Smyth has been waived by the New Orleans Saints before the new NFL season.<\/p>\n
Smyth, a former Gaelic footballer from Mayobridge in Northern Ireland, was the incumbent coming into pre-season having assumed the role from Blake Grupe in November.<\/p>\n
The 25-year-old made 12 of 16 field goals and was successful on each of his 13 extra-point attempts as a starter last season.<\/p>\n
But, after a mixed pre-season for Smyth and increased competition on the Saints’ kicking roster, two-time All-Pro kicker Daniel Carlson appears to have been given the nod.<\/p>\n
In the Saints’ final pre-season match against the Dallas Cowboys on Friday, Smyth kicked one extra point but Carlson landed two field goals, including the winning points from 53 yards in the 27-24 victory.<\/p>\n
Despite the blow, it does not mean that Smyth’s NFL journey has come to an end.<\/p>\n
As he came through the NFL’s international player pathway (IPP), he could be retained on the Saints’ practice roster as IPP players do not count towards the 16-player limit.<\/p>\n
He could also become an option for another NFL team if they feel that Smyth could add to their roster.<\/p>\n
Teams have until Monday at 17:00 BST to sign released players to their rosters, and from there teams can begin to sign players to their practice squads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kicker Charlie Smyth has been waived by the New Orleans Saints before the new NFL season. Smyth, a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":585275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-585274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/585275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}