Saints Should Be All Over Jaguars Rb Travis Etienne Jr.

The New Orleans saints should astatine slightest beryllium successful nan marketplace for a moving backmost this offseason.

That's not a flimsy astatine moving backmost Alvin Kamara successful immoderate way. The 30-year-old is simply a nine-year National Football League seasoned and played successful conscionable 11 games successful 2025. Kamara is nether statement for 1 much play successful 2026. Behind him, nan Saints had Kendre Miller, Devin Neal, and Audric Estime successful 2025. Miller's play ended early, which led to nan rookie Neal having a bigger role. With Kamara out, Neal became nan starter for a bit, but he sewage wounded too, which led to Estime getting a bigger stock crossed nan last 2 games of nan season.

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There's talent successful nan room, Kamara is simply a star, Miller was solid, Neal showed immoderate flashes arsenic a rookie, and Estime had 157 full rushing yards, 1 touchdown, six catches, and 47 receiving yards crossed nan last 2 games of nan season. With nan injuries nan squad knowledgeable successful 2025, they should look to nan unfastened market to spot what is retired there. Saints Wire's John Sigler floated an intriguing name: Travis Etienne Jr. of nan Jacksonville Jaguars.

The Saints should beryllium looking to add

"Travis Etienne Jr. Etienne, who turns 27 successful January, has rushed for 1,000 aliases much yards successful 3 of his 4 years successful nan NFL and brings nan nonstop benignant of home-run threat nan Saints person missed successful nan backfield, pinch 96 runs of 10 aliases much yards successful his career," Sigler wrote. "He had 28 of them unsocial past season. As a team, nan Saints had 34, pinch conscionable 20 coming from their moving backs."

This would beryllium nan type of all-in move nan Saints should beryllium each complete if they really want to effort to make a tally successful 2026. Kamara has shown passim his profession that he tin thrive successful a two-running backmost strategy -- retrieve him and Mark Ingram II together? Etienne has 3 seasons pinch complete 1,000 yards nether his belt, including 1,107 yards successful 2025.

A two-headed onslaught pinch Kamara and Etienne positive Neal and Estime down them arguably would return this discourtesy to different level.

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