{"id":35912,"date":"2025-11-30T00:46:02","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T00:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/charlie-smyth-former-down-goalkeeper-elevated-to-new-orleans-saints-active-roster-before-nfl-debut\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T00:46:03","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T00:46:03","slug":"charlie-smyth-former-down-goalkeeper-elevated-to-new-orleans-saints-active-roster-before-nfl-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/charlie-smyth-former-down-goalkeeper-elevated-to-new-orleans-saints-active-roster-before-nfl-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlie Smyth: Former Down goalkeeper elevated to New Orleans Saints&#8217; active roster before NFL debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Charlie Smyth is set to start his first regular season game for the New Orleans Saints against Miami Dolphins on Sunday after he was elevated to their active roster.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 24-year-old will replace Blake Grupe, who was waived by the Saints last week after missing a pair of field goals in the loss to the Atlanta Falcons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Saints did add veteran kicker Cade York to their practice squad earlier this week, but Smyth&#8217;s elevation suggests he has won the battle to handle kicking duties for Kellen Moore&#8217;s side.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Mayobridge native did feature in pre-season for the Saints, kicking two field goals in a 17-17 tie against the Jacksonville Jaguars in August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former Down goalkeeper Smyth had been a member of the team&#8217;s practice squad as part of the NFL&#8217;s international player pathway programme.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He signed his first contract with the Saints in March 2024 after impressing in the NFL Combine.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/american-football\/articles\/cq5qze38je1o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charlie Smyth is set to start his first regular season game for the New Orleans Saints against Miami Dolphins on Sunday after he was elevated to their active roster. The 24-year-old will replace Blake Grupe, who was waived by the Saints last week after missing a pair of field goals in the loss to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35913,"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\/35912"}],"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=35912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35914,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35912\/revisions\/35914"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}