“I’m his coach. I am putting him through rigorous training,” Nnadi said at the time. “It’s a process, it’s a young kid, a lot of raw potential, but he’s going to be a star.”
The Raiders hope the success the two had together with the Seahawks translates to their new home.Carroll took Seattle to back-to-back Super Bowl appearances — winning once with Russell Wilson at quarterback.
Later, Carroll resurrected Smith’s career by signing him in 2019 as the backup. Smith, a second-round pick in 2019 by the Jets, had lost his starting job with New York and spent one season each as a backup with the New York Giants and Los Angeles Chargers.Smith took over as Seattle’s starter in 2022 and led the league by completing 69.8% of his passes while throwing for 4,282 yards and 30 touchdowns with 11 interceptions. He was selected as the NFL’s AP Comeback Player of the Year.The Seahawks posted winning records all three years with Smith as the starter, but his career there reached a crossroads after last season. The two parties failed to reach a contract agreement, leading to the
in which the Raiders gave up a third-round draft pick.That means Smith is starting over again.
“There’s not a lot of guys that would have shown that resiliency,” offensive coordinator Chip Kelly said. “There’s not a lot of guys that would have persevered through all of that. ... He’s so relatable to everybody in this program because he’s kind of lived that life.
“The fact that he has done it and come out and to be the way he is now is really a testament to him.”Thank-you letters relating the joy of eating bacon again line a bulletin board near the freezer in Revivicor’s corporate office.
Separately, pigs with various gene modifications for xenotransplant research live on a Revivicor farm in Virginia, including a GalSafe pig that was the source for aat NYU Langone Health.
And that begs the question: After removing transplantable organs, could the pig be used for meat?No. The strong anesthesia used so the animals feel no pain during organ removal means they don’t meet USDA rules for drug-free food, said United Therapeutics spokesman Dewey Steadman.