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Getty Images The Saints are now up to 10 undrafted rookie additions to their 90-man roster. Wide receiver/kick returner Deonte Harris is the latest player to sign with the team. He joins Emmanuel Butler as undrafted additions to the receiving corps. Harris played Division II football at...

Getty Images If anyone saw a cellphone under one of the goalposts at the Ravens’ practice facility on Saturday, there was a good reason for that. Joe Horn Jr., the son of former NFL receiver Joe Horn, is participating in Baltimore’s rookie minicamp on a tryout basis. “Joe Horn Jr. looked...

Getty Images New Orleans may have embraced the draft, but New Orleans still hasn’t forgotten about the NFC Championship game. Via Karen Swensen of WWL-TV, Jimmy Buffett took the stage at the New Orleans Jazz Festival as a blind NFL referee, complete with uniform, glasses, cane, and assistance...

Getty Images It’s not just rookie working out for teams in May, hoping to catch on. According to Aaron Wilson of the Houston Chronicle, veteran tackle Ulrick John is working out for the Saints next week. John was with the Patriots last year, but spent it on IR after a preseason foot injury...

Getty Images The Saints obviously are in the market for veteran offensive line help. In addition to offensive tackle Ulrick John, New Orleans also will work out offensive tackle Sam Young, a source tells PFT. Young, 31, spent the past three seasons with the Dolphins. He played 12 games last...

Getty Images The Saints invested a fourth-round pick and a seventh-rounder into Eli Apple, and they appear to content to let that be a 15-month rental. According to Mike Garafolo of NFL Network, the Saints won’t pick up the fifth-year option on Apple’s rookie contract, which would have kept...

Getty Images In honor of the retirement of former Texas quarterback running back Jamaal Charles, and wholly unrelated to the presence of former Texas quarterback Chris Simms on the show, Wednesday’s PFT Live considered the best former Longhorns in program history, draft style. I gave Simms the...

Getty Images The Mercedes-Benz Superdome will undergo a $450 million renovation as part of an agreement that will keep the Saints in New Orleans at least until 2035, Jeff Duncan of The Times-Picayune reports. State and Saints officials are “closing in” on a deal that would extend the team’s...

Getty Images The Saints have announced a handful of undrafted free agent signings. Northern Arizona wide receiver Emmanuel Butler, Utah linebacker Chase Hansen, Pitt guard Mike Herndon, BYU defensive end Corbin Kaufusi and Colorado State-Pueblo defensive back Darius Williams have all agreed to...

Getty Images Time heals all wounds, a/k/a foosball’s not for the devil, after all. In New Orleans, where football became a four-letter word after the NFC title game officiating debacle, fans have rediscovered the sport, apparently. According to the New Orleans Advocate, the 8.3 rating for the...

Getty Images The Saints didn’t have a first-round pick last week, the result of last year’s trade up to get pass-rusher Marcus Davenport. That didn’t deter them, however, as they continued their trend of being willing to move up in the order. According to Mike Triplett of ESPN.com, the Saints...

Getty Images Taysom Hill played quarterback at BYU, but he’s been used in a variety of ways since joining the Saints during the 2017 season. He’s thrown passes, caught passes, run the ball, covered kicks and returned kickoffs over the last two seasons. He’s also provided a model that former...

Texas A@M University Athletics All eyes were on the No. 48 pick this afternoon as the Dolphins and Cardinals discussed a trade that would send quarterback Josh Rosen to Miami, but attention about that possibility will now move to No. 62. The Saints traded that pick along with the 202nd pick a...

Getty Images Tom Brady has worn a No. 12 Patriots jersey for all 19 seasons of his career, going on 20. Yet, fans don’t ever seem to get enough of Brady. For the second consecutive year, the Patriots quarterback led the NFL in sales of officially licensed player merchandise. The National...

Getty Images Free agent defensive end Ziggy Ansah visited the Ravens on Wednesday and a report on the condition of his surgically repaired shoulder surfaced later in the day. Ansah’s hopes of signing with a new team have been on hold as clubs waited for more word on his shoulder. Ian Rapoport...

Getty Images Although former Notre Dame defensive tackle Jerry Tillery hasn’t listened to media criticism in the weeks leading up to the draft, he’s heard questions about his game from teams. And there’s one question in particularly with which he disagrees. “I’ve heard, ‘Does Jerry Tillery...

Getty Images The Saints began their offseason workouts today as the last team to report. Coach Sean Payton explained that it was part of a plan to give players more time off after reaching the NFC Championship Game. “We’ve got plenty of time,” Payton said, via Josh Katzenstein of The...

Getty Images Saints cornerback Ken Crawley has signed his restricted free agent tender, according to the league’s official transactions report Tuesday. The team used an original-round tender on him, paying Crawley $2.03 million this season. Crawley, 26, has spent all three seasons in New...

Getty Images Complaining about schedules is as much a rite of spring as the draft. But Saints coach Sean Payton said he was actually relieved when he said that he had back-to-back road games against the Rams and Seahawks in September. Via Luke Johnson of the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Payton...

Getty Images Sheldon Rankins left last season on a cart, after tearing his Achilles in the playoffs. The Saints are apparently confident in his return, and in his future. According to Ian Rapoport of NFL Network, the Saints are picking up the fifth-year option on the former first-round...