Anthony Smith News

Regardless of whether Nick Collins gets a new contract, he faces an even bigger task than most of his defensive teammates on the Green Bay Packers this year.

For the sake of the Green Bay Packers, they should hope safety Anthony Smith has matured - on the field.

Players don't win NFL jobs in voluntary, non-contact practices in June. That said, it certainly doesn't hurt former Steeler Anthony Smith 's case that he is out there practicing with the Green Bay Packers' first-team defense this spring while both of last year's starting safeties, Nick Collins and Atari Bigby , sit out.

Anthony Smith has been here once before. He was in sixth grade then, being raised by a single mother in the rough post-steel city of Youngstown, Ohio.

With both of the Green Bay Packers' starting safeties from last season sitting out spring voluntary practice sessions, free agent pickup Anthony Smith is getting a good chance to show coaches what he can do.

Twenty-nine has significance for Steelers safety Ryan Mundy beyond the fact that it is his uniform number.

Now that the Steelers and outside linebacker James Harrison agreed on a long-term contract, the team's work is hardly finished... by Jim McMillen 133 reads Now that the Steelers and outside linebacker James Harrison agreed on a long-term contract, the team's work is hardly finished.

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Anthony Smith finally has some company in the Green Bay Packers' 2009 free agent class.

The Green Bay Packers have made another foray into free agency, and not surprisingly it's another minor one.

Mike Tomlin, coach of the Super Bowl champion Pittsburgh Steelers, doesn't know for sure whether Green Bay Packers end Aaron Kampman will make the transition to linebacker in the Packers' new Steelers-style 3-4 defense.

Randy Moss and the undefeated Patriots had plenty to say to recent Packer signee Anthony Smith in 2007 after he assured a Steelers victory.

Weeks of inactivity end as the Green Bay Packers sign a contract with free agent safety Anthony Smith.

After bungling free agency last year, the Jaguars promised to revamp their aging roster through the draft.

Authorities say the girlfriend of Tampa Bay Buccaneers linebacker Geno Hayes stabbed him in the head and in the neck in Tampa, Fla.

The Green Bay Packers signed safety Anthony Smith on Monday, their first free-agent deal of the offseason.

L.J. Smith, one of the top tight ends available in free agency, has remained in contact with the Lions since he visited the team last week, his agent, Brian Mackler, said Sunday.

As Green Bay switches to a 3-4 defense, the team appears to have added a player with experience in the scheme.

The Green Bay Packers, criticized for not making any free agent moves so far in the 2009 NFL offseason, have just made their first, adding a player with experience in the Packers' new 3-4 defense and a Super ...

The family of former Steelers linebacker Marquis Cooper decided to discontinue their search for the 26-year-old man and two friends still missing in the Gulf of Mexico.