Overview
- The NFL named Szmyt AFC Special Teams Player of the Week after his 55-yard field goal as time expired beat the Packers 13-10, the longest walk-off kick in Browns history.
- Wednesday’s award is his first and the Browns’ first AFC special teams weekly honor since Dustin Hopkins in 2023.
- Szmyt’s winner snapped Cleveland’s eight-game skid and capped a fourth quarter in which he also hit a 35-yarder and an extra point.
- After missing an extra point and a 36-yard field goal in a 17-16 Week 1 loss to the Bengals, he kept his job as staff evaluated options, according to the special teams coach.
- Playing through grief over his mother’s July death and after a late-week calf concern, he reset with family during the Baltimore trip in Week 2 and now prepares for Detroit before a London game versus Minnesota.