Green Bay’s Trey Smack has spent the preseason doing exactly what rookies are supposed to do: forcing people to notice.
The sixth-round kicker has become one of the early talking points around the NFL after drilling two 58-yard field goals in the first week of the preseason. One of those kicks was erased by a defensive penalty, but the leg strength was still impossible to ignore.
That kind of range is enough to put a rookie on the radar, and CBS Sports took notice by naming Smack one of the biggest winners of the preseason, along with the Packers’ entire special teams unit.
The attention has even reached Micah Parsons. The Packers star gave Smack a shout-out on X after another strong outing, and the CBS Sports writeup highlighted just how far the rookie has pushed the envelope in Denver.
“In Week 2 in Denver, he smacked, pun intended, a 51-yard kick, a 59-yard kick and a 43-yard kick through the uprights, the latter of which occurred as time expired in the first half,” Garrett Podell and Zachary Pereles note in the piece. “Green Bay All-Pro edge rusher Micah Parsons, who is still recovering from a torn ACL he suffered in Denver last season, is fired up about Smack's performance from the couch.”
For a player at a position that rarely grabs the spotlight, Smack has made a loud first impression. The preseason has given Green Bay a promising start from a sixth-rounder who is suddenly drawing praise well beyond Wisconsin.
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