{"id":32558,"date":"2025-07-23T18:54:41","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T18:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/green-bay-packers-mark-mcnamee-joins-roster-before-nfl-season\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T18:54:42","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T18:54:42","slug":"green-bay-packers-mark-mcnamee-joins-roster-before-nfl-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/green-bay-packers-mark-mcnamee-joins-roster-before-nfl-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Bay Packers: Mark McNamee joins roster before NFL season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Irish kicker Mark McNamee has signed a contract with the Green Bay Packers in the NFL.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 25-year-old from Wicklow was part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/american-football\/articles\/cdx22y07wr5o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">2025 International Player Pathway programme<\/a> and took part in the 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 Irishman on their roster, with Wicklow-born <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/american-football\/66818341\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Dan Whelan<\/a> having made 119 punts for Green Bay over the past two seasons.<\/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\">Charlie Smyth at the New Orleans Saints<\/a> and Jude McAtamney of the New York Giants, there are now four kickers or punters 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<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/american-football\/articles\/crmvgekrmlvo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Irish kicker Mark McNamee has signed a contract with the Green Bay Packers in the NFL. The 25-year-old from Wicklow was part of the 2025 International Player Pathway programme and took part in the NFL Combine in March. A former goalkeeper for his Gaelic club Ballyboden St Endas, McNamee spent June with the BC Lions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32559,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32558"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32560,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32558\/revisions\/32560"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}