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By Kyle T. Mosley | SI

Former New Orleans Saints linebacker Kwon Alexander has been training in Miami, Florida, with Dr. Sharif "Dr. Reef" Tabbah at the Miami area's Athletix Rehab & Recovery training facility. Tabbah is the strength and conditioning coach who has worked with running backs Alvin Kamara and Mark Ingram.


Tabbah described the exercises that Alexander was performing as "working on resistant triple extension, post Achilles repair. The goal of the exercise is to strengthen the calf, and Achilles under load while simulating the triple extension position of linear acceleration."

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By John Sigler | Saints Wire

The Who Dat Nation is a big-tent fandom, with no shortage of famous supporters. From actors and athletes to politicians and musicians, celebrity Saints fans come from all walks of life — and quite a few of them hail from New Orleans and the communities surrounding it around the Gulf South. Like all fans, their following might be more casual or committed from one to the next, but they’re all fond of the black and gold. Here’s a list of 25 of the Saints’ most famous fans, ordered alphabetically by their last names:

Cliff Bleszinski



A prominent developer and producer in the video gaming industry famous for his work with the “Unreal” and “Gears of War” franchises, Bleszinski picked up his Saints support from his wife, who is from New Orleans. He’s also known to throw a bone to the Steelers; a personal friend is also a minority owner of the black and yellow. But he credits the Saints’ Super Bowl XLIV win with sparking his love of the sport.

Jimmy Buffett



Buffett is a common sight at the Superdome and around New Orleans; he performed the national anthem before the 2018 NFC title game and continued to harangue the NFL for its bungled no-call at Jazz Fest the following year.

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By KSkiver35 | CSC

College football is an interesting beast. It’s so common to see players dominate at that level and then go on to disappoint in the NFL that nearly everyone gets second-guessed before the draft. If that happens to Ohio State’s Justin Fields in the draft, it would be a huge boon for the Saints and Sean Payton, and they would be remiss not to take him at 28.

While it’s unlikely, there’s already been talk about Fields dropping. Dan Orlovsky made headlines on the Pat McAfee show by relaying information he got from sources about Fields being a “last one in first one out” type player, comments for which Orlovsky caught a lot of fire online. Fields is the latest black quarterback to suffer questions about his work ethic in weeks and months preceding the draft, but the evidence just isn’t there.

A good example of Fields’ preparation came this season against Northwestern in the Big 10 Championship Game — a game where he actually struggled but had a good gameplan for. Northwestern was content to sit back and play a quarters defense, which Fields was able to shred early on with short passes.

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By Chris Rosvoglou | The Spun

With the NFL Draft just a few weeks away, ESPN analyst Mike Greenberg unleashed a bold prediction on this Friday’s edition of Get Up.

Greenberg predicted that one team will trade into the back half of the first round to select Stanford quarterback Davis Mills.

“I believe that some team in the NFL is going to trade back into the bottom of the first round, as we’ve seen happen before, to take Davis Mills, the quarterback from Stanford,” Greenberg said. “I think he’s the guy, ultimately, teams thinking long-term project will say he has the most upside and they will want that fifth year.”

ESPN draft analyst Matt Miller had an interesting response to Greenberg’s prediction.

“I don’t even know if it would have to be a team trading back here,” Miller said. “I think you can look at the New Orleans Saints sitting right there at the end of the first round.”

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