{"id":701992,"date":"2026-01-24T17:38:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T17:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/701992\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T17:38:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T17:38:15","slug":"charlie-smyth-kai-kroeger-2025-season-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/701992\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlie Smyth, Kai Kroeger 2025 Season Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Orleans Saints kicker Charlie Smyth spent 28 games on the practice squad before the strong-legged Northern Ireland native made his NFL debut. A Hollywood script might not do justice to his story: The Gaelic football goalkeeper who never had kicked an NFL football joined the NFL&#8217;s International Pathway Program, kicked well in the IPP and at the NFL Combine, earned a contract with the Saints and continued working on his craft until he was added to the 53-man roster following Blake Grupe&#8217;s release. <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.neworleanssaints.com\/news\/charlie-smyth-kai-kroeger-2025-season-recap\" title=\"Saints 2025 Season Recap | Specialists Charlie Smyth and Kai Kroeger\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SEE MORE&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Orleans Saints kicker Charlie Smyth spent 28 games on the practice squad before the strong-legged Northern Ireland&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":701993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2076],"tags":[7,81,2003,896,55,2572,2571,6,397],"class_list":{"0":"post-701992","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-orleans-saints","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-latest-news","10":"tag-morning-break","11":"tag-new-orleans","12":"tag-new-orleans-saints","13":"tag-neworleans","14":"tag-neworleanssaints","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-saints"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115951298443341656","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701992","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=701992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/701993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}