When adversity hit, Smack proved he could adjust. After missing three kicks in a 55-0 win over LIU in the 2025 opener, Smack recalibrated and made 17 of 18 the rest of his senior year.<\/p>\n
It earned him an admirer in new Packers special teams coordinator Cam Achord, who spoke with Smack in early March and offered rave reviews in pre-draft conversations with Gutekunst.<\/p>\n
“We thought he was the best kicker in this draft,” Gutekunst said. “And Cam had a very strong opinion about that, as did I, and I thought it felt fortunate to be able to acquire him.”<\/p>\n
Surrounded by family, Smack was hopeful that he would get drafted Saturday but prepared for all potential outcomes. The fact Green Bay thought enough of him to trade up for his services brings Smack back to his roots in many ways.<\/p>\n
A native of Severna Park, Md., Smack knows what it’s like to kick in the snow and looks forward to getting back into a “cold-weather rhythm” with the Packers.<\/p>\n
It doesn’t hurt to have a powerful kicking leg, especially in today’s NFL. He gained some internet buzz in late March for making a 65-yard field goal at his Florida pro day.<\/p>\n
“If Coach wants to send me out there for a 63-yarder, I’m not gonna back down and be like ‘No, I can’t make that,'” Smack said. “We’ll be realistic. There will be some days when there’s a heavy wind and I’ll have to say, ‘Hey, I’m good from 55 here.’ There’s some days where I’ll just be like, ‘Hey, I think I’m good from 60-plus.'”<\/p>\n
Smack knows competition awaits him in Green Bay, as the Packers are already carrying two kickers \u2013 veteran incumbent Brandon McManus<\/a> and Lucas Havrisik<\/a> \u2013 on the 90-man roster.<\/p>\n McManus helped save the Packers’ 2024 season as a midyear signing but battled a quad injury and bouts of inconsistency during his second go-around in Green Bay, culminating in three missed kicks in the Packers’ NFC Wild Card loss in Chicago last January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When adversity hit, Smack proved he could adjust. After missing three kicks in a 55-0 win over LIU…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":875047,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[4955,118537,118536,7,34,49,48,417,270,118442,507,18686],"class_list":{"0":"post-875046","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-2026-nfl-draft","9":"tag-2026pick216","10":"tag-draft-trey-smack","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-homepage-cp","13":"tag-ncaa","14":"tag-ncaa-football","15":"tag-news-all-news","16":"tag-news-draft","17":"tag-news-2026-nfl-draft","18":"tag-news-national-feature","19":"tag-trey-smack"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116470288507367625","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875046","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=875046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/875047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=875046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=875046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=875046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}