on the team\u2019s YouTube channel<\/a> and said he\u2019s eager to contribute any way he can, just as Smith did as a rookie, when he caught only 10 passes but was an All-Pro kick returner.<\/p>\n\u201cMy rookie year, I just want to go out there and impact any way I can,\u201d Horn said. \u201cThat could be from special teams, offense, taking five-yard catches to a 90-yard touchdown. I\u2019m just trying to do anything I can do to help the team win. And then I feel like if I play that way, whatever accolades I\u2019m looking for, it\u2019ll fall on to me.\u201d<\/p>\n
Horn said he has watched the way Smith played the game and would like to emulate him.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe main thing I took from his game was like the physicality,\u201d Horn said. \u201cHe played tough and like he really on the field, he wasn\u2019t going for nothing. So like that\u2019s just something natural as a player that you got to have too. And I see that in me a lot too though. I ain\u2019t really going for nothing on the field.\u201d<\/p>\n
Horn might only be the fourth or fifth receiver on the offense but is likely to return punts and kickoffs as a rookie. That\u2019s how Smith got started, and it worked out well for him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 2001, the Panthers drafted Steve Smith in the third round, played him mostly on special teams as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-23685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}