Steve Smith Slot Receiver
Today’s big winner: Steve Smith
“There’s going to be blood and guts everywhere.”
That’s how Steve Smith chose to describe the next time he ever sets foot in Bank of America Stadium, home of the Carolina Panthers. But Smith could have been describing the fate of most aging players during free agency.
- Any offensive formation must have 7 players at the line of scrimmage. The 1st and 7th player are called 'Tight End' or 'Split End' if one lines up tight to their side's Tackle or split out. Note that Split End is pretty much a Wide Receiver lined up on the LOS. The Slot receiver positions himself in the 'slot' between the Tackle and Split End.
- Steve Smith: Slot Machine. Davis Mattek July 28, 2013 Share on twitter. Wide Receiver Usage Deep Dive: Week 9 – Three’s Company in Carolina, Jakobi Meyers is Soaring Zachary Krueger November 10, 2020 Win the Dynasty Waiver Wire – Week 10 Curtis Patrick November 10, 2020.
- A slot receiver can often be mixed with other types of receiving positions. A slot receiver is a receiver who lines up in the slot position, between the offensive tackle and the widest receiver. This player is often fast and is in position to catch the football or take a hand off. The slot corner will cover the slot receiver.
- Slot to 247Sports Newsletter. Most prominent players feeling the weight of the NFL's hype machine entering the 2020 season is Carolina Panthers wide receiver. Steve Smith spoke candidly.
Smith will be 35 in May, and has played all 13 of his NFL seasons at Carolina. Over his tenure with the Panthers, he’s morphed from deadly deep threat to serviceable slot receiver. Smith was the guy Cam Newton went to for possession last season, not for points. Smith signed a contract extension in 2012 that paid $16.8 million in guaranteed money and a $10 million signing bonus. That’s a lot of money for a guy who caught four touchdowns in 2013.
Ice up, son. Time to go.
Top Senior Bowl WR Sterling Shepard Uses Steve Smith As Inspiration Feb 05, 2016 at 03:15 AM. It would be premature to box him in as a slot receiver only.
The Panthers made the right decision. It’s OK to feel melancholy about it. But Carolina can feel melancholy knowing they saved themselves from a $7 million cap hit in 2014 by letting Smith go.
And the ensuing “blood and guts” that Smith has promised? It’s an endearing sentiment. One you’d probably expect from Smith. But it’s just talk at this point.
If reports prove true, the Baltimore Ravens are primed to sign Smith in hopes of finally replacing Anquan Boldin, who left the team in 2012. Boldin’s last year in Baltimore yielded near identical, and equally average numbers, as Smith’s 2013 in Carolina. That’s what happens when good receivers age.
The decision was easy, even if the consequences were hard.
*****
/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/64685673/1033914508.jpg.0.jpg "Receiver")
More of today’s winners …
Richard Sherman is willing to fight anyone on Twitter this offseason.
Steve Nash gave a perfectly reasonable explanation for playing in the NBA for too long.
ESPN has announced Brent Musburger’s replacement. No surprise really.
Hockey players brutally punch each other repeatedly. Then, they high fived.
The New England Patriots are winning the NFL offseason and it isn’t even close.
The Carolina Panthers will release wide receiver Steve Smith on Thursday, a league source told ESPN NFL Insider Adam Schefter.
On Wednesday, Smith's longtime representative Derrick Fox told The Associated Press that Smith 'is not going to play for the Panthers next year, I know that. I just don't know when that transaction is going to take place.'
He said the Panthers have not asked Smith, 34, to restructure his contract, which calls for him to make $7 million under this year's salary cap.
Despite releasing the five-time Pro Bowler, the club will have to pay him $3 million this season as part of the three-year extension he signed in 2012. Smith's contract runs through 2016.
Also, Smith will count $5 million under this year's cap. The team could designate him for a June 1 release, which would allow it to split that money over the next two seasons.
Slot Receiver Nfl
Fox said Smith, a 13-year veteran, would have preferred to finish his career with Carolina, the team that drafted him in the third round in 2001. He said Smith was 'disappointed and surprised' when Panthers general manager Dave Gettleman talked about the receiver's future in uncertain terms at the NFL scouting combine last month.
Steve Smith Slot Receiver
'Where we are disappointed is the fact he signed an extension to stay loyal to the club and complete his career as a Panther,' Fox said. 'That is why we did the long-term team deal. Now we are at a crossroads where the Panthers don't want him anymore.'
Smith is Carolina's all-time leading receiver with 836 catches for 12,197 yards and 67 touchdowns. He is 19th all time in receiving yards and 25th in receptions.
He had 64 receptions for 746 yards and four touchdowns last season, helping the Panthers go 12-4 in the regular season and capture the NFC South title.
Fox said Smith plans to continue his playing career when the Panthers cut ties.
'At 34, they could have kept him and run him in the slot,' Fox said. 'Steve wants to play in the slot. But he can't play the slot with the current roster, and he hasn't been able to play in the slot with the rosters in the past.'
Slot Receiver In Football
Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.