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Getty Images Saints running back Alvin Kamara is feeling healthy again, and that goes beyond recovering from a knee injury. Via Luke Johnson of the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Kamara said shifting toward a plant-based diet has him feeling better as he entered training camp. “I got with my...

Getty Images Saints head coach Sean Payton was the first NFL head coach to contract COVID-19 this offseason, but the team hasn’t had anyone diagnosed with the coronavirus since they began testing at the start of training camp last month. Part of the reason for that has been the team’s decision...

Getty Images Alvin Kamara would like a new contract. But he’d also like to get back to feeling like Alvin Kamara. The Saints running back told reporters on a videoconference Monday that he struggled throughout last season after an early knee injury, and clearly wasn’t himself. He admitted that...

Getty Images The Saints didn’t have to work hard to sell wide receiver Emmanuel Sanders on joining the team as a free agent this offseason. Sanders said in March that he didn’t need to hear from other teams once the Saints offered him a deal because he knew he wanted to play in an offense with...

Getty Images Why bargain with the union for the right to compel players to live in a hotel all season when it can be done on a “voluntary” basis? NFL teams are waking up to the ability to create a hardened bubble without seeking formal permission to do so. The league already has said, in an...

Getty Images It’s been nearly a week since the NFL gave receiver Antonio Brown (partial) clarity regarding his status, with an eight-game suspension to be served in 2020 and, potentially, further punishment of an unresolved civil lawsuit accusing him of sexual assault and rape.. Since then, no...

Getty Images It’s been over 20 years since the last time Bruce Arians had to get ready for the start of a football season without some preseason games to help get his team ready to play games that count. Arians was the offensive coordinator at the University of Alabama in 1997. He’s been in...

Getty Images NFL teams have, technically, a “virtual bubble” around each practice facility. But the bubble bursts each night, as players and coaches go home. Coupled with testing that has a 24-hour turnaround, the ability of players to go home (and potentially catch the virus from a family...

Getty Images The Saints have made a change to the title of one of the top members of their personnel department. As noted by multiple media members, the Saints now list Terry Fontenot as their assistant General Manager of pro personnel. The move gives them a pair of assistant General Managers...

Getty Images The NFL finally has given receiver Antonio Brown an answer, sort of, regarding his status. The question now becomes whether a team will sign him. Monday’s PFT Live included a draft of the teams that should consider signing Brown, one of the NFL’s best receivers of the past decade...

Getty Images The Panthers were Cam Newton‘s team for nine seasons. He won a league MVP award and led the Panthers to a Super Bowl. Newton, though, is in New England, and for the first time since 2010, the Panthers have a No. 1 quarterback not named Newton. For the first time since 2015, Teddy...

Getty Images The Saints started paring down their roster on Sunday. Amie Just of NOLA.com reports that the team has cut wide receiver Krishawn Hogan and Nick Underhill of NewOrleans.Football reports that cornerback Deatrick Nichols and running back Ricky Ortiz have also been dropped in New...

Getty Images Earlier Sunday, it was reported the Saints had cut receiver Krishawn Hogan, cornerback Deatrick Nichols and fullback Ricky Ortiz. The NFL’s daily transactions list shows the Saints cut nine in all. The cuts include receiver Tommylee Lewis. Lewis, of course, was involved in one of...

Getty Images The NBA has shown us so far that sports in a bubble can work. Major League Baseball has shown us that sports outside a bubble does not go so smoothly. So Saints coach Sean Payton is trying to create as limited an experience for his team as possible. According to Peter King of...

Getty Images Defensive tackle Taylor Stallworth is going to be in the market for a new team. PFT has learned, via a league source, that the Saints are cutting the two-year veteran from their roster. Stallworth made the Saints as an undrafted free agent in 2018 and appeared in 14 games during...

Getty Images It took 17 years for someone to break Marvin Harrison’s record for catches in a single season, but Saints wide receiver Michael Thomas thinks the wait for another record could be a short one. Thomas was the player who broke Harrison’s record by catching 149 passes last season and...

Getty Images It’s become a given in league circles that 2020 will be the final season of Saints quarterback Drew Brees‘ first-ballot-Hall-of-Fame career. Brees isn’t ready to give in to that line of thinking, however. Speaking to reporters for the first time during training camp, Brees...

Getty Images The Saints placed linebacker Kiko Alonso and cornerback Johnson Bademosi on the physically unable to perform list Saturday. Alonso continues to work his way back from a torn ACL in the Saints’ postseason loss to the Vikings. Bademosi ended last season on injured reserve with a...

Getty Images Falcons quarterback Matt Ryan is the second-youngest starter in the NFC South. But that’s only because two of the others are in their 40s. Ryan, the 2016 NFL MVP, enters his thirteenth NFL season at the age of 35. How much longer does he want to play? “I’d like to chase those...

Getty Images The Saints are heading into this season with a Super Bowl or bust mentality and they’ve brought in a veteran defensive player with a Super Bowl ring to help with that effort. Agent Drew Rosenhaus announced on Thursday that linebacker Nigel Bradham has signed a one-year deal with...