{"id":614228,"date":"2025-12-20T08:22:39","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T08:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/614228\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T08:22:39","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T08:22:39","slug":"charlie-smyth-signs-three-year-deal-with-new-orleans-saints-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/614228\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlie Smyth signs three-year deal with New Orleans Saints \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Charlie Smyth<\/a> has been elevated to the New Orleans Saints 53-man roster and has signed a new three-year contract with the NFL<\/a> team.<\/p>\n

It comes after the former Down Gaelic football goalkeeper has made three consecutive appearances for the Saints and accumulated 17 points \u2013 successfully making four out of five field-goal attempts and registering five from five with his extra point efforts.<\/p>\n

On his regular season debut against the Miami Dolphins three weeks ago, he announced himself Stateside by drilling over a 56-yard field goal. He also had an onside kick recovered late in that game, with recoveries averaging only 5 per cent for the last three NFL seasons.<\/p>\n

Last Sunday, Smyth took centrestage in his own dream by kicking the winning score for the Saints with just two seconds remaining against the Carolina Panthers.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe last few days have just been crazy, it\u2019s kind of been the result of a lot of quiet work in the background these past 18 months,\u201d Smyth told The Irish Times.<\/p>\n

Smyth is the first player to make the transition from Gaelic football to NFL without playing in the US college system.<\/p>\n

Irish-born Daniel Whelan is punter for the Green Bay Packers in the NFL, while Jude McAtamney got a chance in the league this year, but missed two extra-point attempts, one crucially in the fourth quarter, as the New York Giants lost by a point. The Derry man was cut from the team, and then the practice squad, showing the cut-throat nature of the sport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charlie Smyth has been elevated to the New Orleans Saints 53-man roster and has signed a new three-year…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":614229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2076],"tags":[8531,7,896,55,2572,2571,6,397],"class_list":{"0":"post-614228","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-orleans-saints","8":"tag-charlie-smyth","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-new-orleans","11":"tag-new-orleans-saints","12":"tag-neworleans","13":"tag-neworleanssaints","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-saints"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115750932480256021","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/614229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}