After three-consecutive winning seasons with the Seattle Seahawks, Geno Smith found himself being shipped to the Las Vegas Raiders in favor of Sam Darnold. And in light of him throwing more interceptions than any other quarterback throughout the entire 2025 regular season, that chapter of his career has now come to an end as well.<\/p>\n
At 35 years of age, Smith now stands as one of the more undesirable quarterback options of this free agency period, but according to CBS Sports<\/a>\u2018 NFL insider, Jonathan Jones, there may be a bit of hope to be found down in the Carolina\u2019s. \u201cOdds are that, in Week 1 of 2026, Geno Smith is going to be someone\u2019s backup with the potential to ultimately start if injury happens or bad play takes place,\u201d Jones prefaced.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n \u201cOne place that I would just keep an eye on, the Carolina Panthers. They have Bryce Young, they are issuing the fifth-year option on Bryce Young as he heads into his fourth year, but they are getting rid of Andy Dalton and they need another backup quarterback.\u201d<\/p>\n Considering the inconsistent rate of play that has plagued most of Young\u2019s career, as as well as the fact that the team\u2019s head coach and offensive coordinator, Dave Canales and Brad Idzik, both \u201cspent some time with the Seattle Seahawks,\u201d Jones believes that there\u2019s enough of a preexisting connection, as well as a need, to justify the Panthers signing Smith to some sort of short-term deal.<\/p>\n Another one of CBS Sports\u2019 veteran insiders, Ryan Wilson, also suggested that he \u201cloves the idea of Carolina\u201d for Smith, noting that it\u2019s \u201ca place where you\u2019re not having to do a whole bunch.\u201d Although, fans shouldn\u2019t rule out the Minnesota Vikings either.<\/p>\n Thanks to the sheer amount of frustration that has stemmed from the franchise\u2019s decision to move off of the now-Super Bowl champion in Sam Darnold for a since-struggling J.J. McCarthy, the demand for a quarterback has seemingly never been higher in Minnesota.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Throw in \u201cKevin O\u2019Connell\u2019s ability to get the most out of any quarterback,\u201d and that\u2019s enough for Wilson to envision Smith throwing to Justin Jefferson in 2026. \u201cI feel like Geno Smith, in that offense, would absolutely cook.\u201d<\/p>\n Unfortunately for the journeyman QB, it\u2019s more likely than not that Jones\u2019 suspicions of him playing a backup role will be proven correct. Minnesota figures to be the ideal landing spot, as it\u2019s probably the only franchise that is willing to allow Smith to step back into a starting role, but there\u2019s no guarantee that the Vikings will be interested in a signal caller who has averaged 16 interceptions a season throughout the past two years.<\/p>\n Simply put, Smith is now at the mercy of the market, and he\u2019ll have to accept the reality that, at this point in his career, there aren\u2019t many teams left who are willing to write him back.<\/p>\n The post Geno Smith News: Jonathan Jones Explains Why Ex-Raider Moving to Carolina Panthers Makes Sense<\/a> appeared first on The SportsRush<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After three-consecutive winning seasons with the Seattle Seahawks, Geno Smith found himself being shipped to the Las Vegas…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":797813,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2075],"tags":[10122,1476,235,260,2567,257,7,1507,1519,1981,2780,393,259,6,236,1878,261],"class_list":{"0":"post-797812","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-carolina-panthers","8":"tag-andy-dalton","9":"tag-bryce-young","10":"tag-carolina","11":"tag-carolina-panthers","12":"tag-carolinapanthers","13":"tag-dallas-cowboys","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-geno-smith","16":"tag-j-j-mccarthy","17":"tag-jonathan-jones","18":"tag-justin-jefferson","19":"tag-las-vegas-raiders","20":"tag-minnesota-vikings","21":"tag-nfl","22":"tag-panthers","23":"tag-sam-darnold","24":"tag-seattle-seahawks"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116186465168561743","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797812","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=797812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/797813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}