{"id":35957,"date":"2025-12-01T00:47:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T00:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/charlie-smyth-former-down-goalkeeper-kicks-field-goal-on-nfl-debut-for-new-orleans-saints\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T00:47:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T00:47:09","slug":"charlie-smyth-former-down-goalkeeper-kicks-field-goal-on-nfl-debut-for-new-orleans-saints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/charlie-smyth-former-down-goalkeeper-kicks-field-goal-on-nfl-debut-for-new-orleans-saints\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlie Smyth: Former Down goalkeeper kicks field goal on NFL debut for New Orleans Saints"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Charlie Smyth kicked a 56-yard field goal in his first regular-season game for the New Orleans Saints as they fell to a 21-17 defeat by the Miami Dolphins.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 24-year-old was elevated to the active roster for the Saints on Saturday and replaced Blake Grupe, who was waived last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Mayobridge native registered his first points in the NFL with his first field kick attempt in the fourth quarter at the Hard Rock Stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He also managed an onside kick, but he could not prevent his side from falling to a 10th loss of the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Smyth becomes only the third placekicker from the island of Ireland to feature in a regular NFL game, after Neil O&#8217;Donoghue in 1985 and Jude McAtamney earlier this year.<\/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 after signing his first contract in March 2024.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/american-football\/articles\/ckgmzl5z83no?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charlie Smyth kicked a 56-yard field goal in his first regular-season game for the New Orleans Saints as they fell to a 21-17 defeat by the Miami Dolphins. The 24-year-old was elevated to the active roster for the Saints on Saturday and replaced Blake Grupe, who was waived last week. The Mayobridge native registered his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35958,"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\/35957"}],"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=35957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35959,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35957\/revisions\/35959"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}