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Four-panel humor comic: a roster circle around Trey Smack, footballs through the uprights including a 59-yarder, three from 50-plus, the kicker walking off while quarterbacks wait on cuts.
Four panels: that is his real name, 9 for 9, three from 50-plus, the hay is in the barn. · Comic: Topics / Drew’s Comic Newsroom. Source: AP via CBS Sports, Aug. 29, 2026.

Humor · SATIRE

Trey Smack went 9 for 9, which is also his name

What happened

Somewhere in the Packers’ 42-38 preseason finale was a quieter perfect game. Trey Smack, a sixth-round kicker out of Florida, made field goals of 36 and 37 yards on Friday and closed the exhibition slate 9 for 9, AP reports via CBS Sports. Three of those were from 50-plus. The long was 59. That is the entire kicking line from the same McCord game, lifted out because the name and the line both do comedy without extra topping.

The rest of the night belonged to roster panic: Kyle McCord’s four touchdowns, Nyjalik Kelly’s pick, receivers diving for jobs. J. Michael Sturdivant said the hay was in the barn. Smack had already put nine balls through the same barn door. Kickers do not usually steal a recap from a 42-38 game. This one is named Smack and did not miss. The sixth-round tag is part of the bit. So is Florida. So is 59.

Why it matters

Sunday’s cuts will decide who stays. A kicker who did not miss in three exhibitions, including from distances that make coaches nervous, is the easiest kind of camp story: the ball kept going in. The name does the rest of the work. You do not need a second punch line when the roster already printed Trey Smack next to K. McCord is waiting on a phone call about a quarterback job. Smack is waiting on whether 9 for 9 is enough to be the guy who jogs on in September.

Green Bay visits Minnesota on the 13th. Someone has to kick it there too. Preseason field goals do not guarantee a regular-season job, and we are not pretending they do. They do guarantee a comic in which the footballs keep sailing and the QBs wait by a cuts sign. That is the humor beat using a sports source without turning it back into the McCord package.

Conclusion

That is the whole bit, stretched to the length the house form wants. His name is Smack. He went 9 for 9, three from 50-plus, long of 59. The hay is in the barn, and the football kept going in. Same CBS/AP URL as the McCord piece, different slug, different strip, different closer: the kicker walking off while the quarterbacks wait on Sunday.

Source: CBS Sports