{"id":981631,"date":"2026-08-24T05:33:30","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T05:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/981631\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T05:33:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T05:33:30","slug":"chau-smith-wade-flew-into-the-screen-made-a-play-and-continues-to-show-versatility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/981631\/","title":{"rendered":"Chau Smith-Wade &#8220;flew into the screen,&#8221; made a play, and continues to show versatility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He needs to make those kinds of plays, because he&#8217;s in a competitive position group. They drafted a cornerback, <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break:break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.panthers.com\/team\/players-roster\/will-lee-iii\/\" title=\"Will Lee III\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Will Lee III<\/a>, in the fourth round, and he&#8217;s closer in physical profile to the Horn-Jackson model they want at the position. That has Smith-Wade, <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break:break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.panthers.com\/team\/players-roster\/corey-thornton\/\" title=\"Corey Thornton\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Corey Thornton<\/a>, and <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break:break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.panthers.com\/team\/players-roster\/akayleb-evans\/\" title=\"Akayleb Evans\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Akayleb Evans<\/a> among others competing for time in a talented secondary.<\/p>\n<p>But the 5-11, 176-pound Smith-Wade has shown value and versatility, as he competes all over the field.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I mean they&#8217;ve already been testing my versatility, so I just want to stay ready for whatever,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Whatever they throw at me, I just want to stay ready.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think that the coaches kind of just see that I&#8217;m a football player, and being able to play those positions, they see that in me. So, if they see it, I guess they&#8217;ll take advantage of it, and they kind of have been doing that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And if they weren&#8217;t aware of it, he flew into their screens in Jacksonville and made them notice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He needs to make those kinds of plays, because he&#8217;s in a competitive position group. They drafted a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":981632,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2075],"tags":[123190,79,235,260,2567,10626,7,81,6,236,18001],"class_list":["post-981631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-carolina-panthers","tag-2026-training-camp","tag-app-news","tag-carolina","tag-carolina-panthers","tag-carolinapanthers","tag-chau-smith-wade","tag-football","tag-latest-news","tag-nfl","tag-panthers","tag-spotlight"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/117148857378526378","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981631","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=981631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/981632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=981631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=981631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=981631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}