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Suggestion: Saints should sign former Bengals safety George Iloka

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By: John Sigler | 4 hours ago

The Cincinnati Bengals made their latest confusing personnel decision on Sunday by releasing longtime starting safety George Iloka. The Bengals are spinning this move as a financial consideration, as it saves them a little over $5 million in salary cap space. It also gives rookie safety Jessie Bates a clearer road to starting on the back end of their defense.

Iloka is hardly washed up, having just recently turned 28. Check out this bit from Pro Football Focus in the wake of his release:

{quote](Iloka) has averaged roughly 0.34 wins above replacement the last five years, never generating fewer than 0.26 (2016) and never more than 0.53 (2014). He’s been reliable in terms of availability as well, playing more than 715 snaps each of those seasons, and eclipsing 988 snaps in four of those five years. While coverage grades paint a somewhat-incomplete picture for deep safeties, he’s surrendered fewer touchdowns (seven) into his coverage than he has interceptions (nine), and passers earned only a 68.4 rating throwing at him a season ago.[/Quote] ...

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PFF's highest-graded New Orleans Saints free agent may surprise you

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The New Orleans Saints have a handful of contributors from last year’s squad heading into free agency, but the one that got the highest Pro Football Focus grade is not someone anyone would expect.

PFF’s Bradley Locker recently went through each NFL team’s impending free agents to find the players that received the best marks last season. For the Saints, it was wide receiver Dante Pettis at 70.2. That isn’t a great grade, but that does say a lot about how New Orleans performed last season.

This is what Locker had to say about the season:

Pettis had just 12 catches for 120 yards and a...
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5 winners of 2025 Senior Bowl weigh-ins for Saints to consider

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It’s officially time for the 2025 Senior Bowl and the festivities have gotten started before the players even took the field.

Every part of the even is important for the NFL draft, but weigh-ins is one of the most crucial elements. This is a league that is driven by traits and thresholds for decision making, so a player could completely take himself out of consideration for a team if he comes in with bad measurments.

On the flip side, someone could also make themselves some money if his numbers jump off the page.

Here are five of the biggest winners from Monday’s weigh-ins for the New Orleans Saints to take note of as they prepare for the 2025 NFL draft:
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Let's play Sam Darnold dominoes: How the top free agent QB could land $100 million -- and create chaos

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Where Darnold signs could change things for almost a dozen teams and multiple other quarterbacks. Let's size up his market and what could happen.
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3 receivers for Saints to scout at the 2025 Senior Bowl practices

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The New Orleans Saints are known to pay close attention to the Reese’s Senior Bowl each year and with so many draft needs in 2025, this could be a crucial event for them.

One spot on the roster that was proven to need more talent was wide receiver. Luckily, there are a handful of exciting wide outs heading to Mobile for the event. In particular, some fun names to keep an eye out for include Elic Ayomanor, Jack Bech and Da’Quan Felton.

Ayomanor is a big-bodied receiver that has always had promise of talent, but has been inconsistent throughout his career. Still, he has had plenty of big...
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Saints defensive assistant coaching National Team LBs at Senior Bowl

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New Orleans Saints defensive assistant Adam Gristick is going to get a chance to coach linebackers at the 2025 Reese’s Senior Bowl next week.

On Friday afternoon, the Senior Bowl announced that Gristick would be the linebacker coach for the National Team. With that being a key need for the Saints in the 2025 NFL draft, this could provide some key insight into some intriguing players at the position.

The linebackers on that team include Jeffery Bassa, Cody Lindenberg and Martin Nickolas, but there are also a handful of edge rushers and safeties shared within the group that Gristick might...
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Saints have tough calls to make on fifth-year options for 2022 draft picks

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Here’s another tough call the New Orleans Saints must make this offseason: Whether or not to pick up the fifth-year options for Chris Olave and Trevor Penning? It isn’t something they’ll have to decide overnight — that window opened on Jan. 6 and closes on May 1, just four days after the 2025 NFL draft — but it will have to be dealt with eventually. Both players are under contract for 2025, but this will determine whether they’ll be locked in for 2026.

And it may not be as simple a call as you’d first think. The decision to pick up team options for Marshon Lattimore and Ryan Ramczyk was...
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Who will be the New Orleans Saints' next coach? Here are the latest odds

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NEW ORLEANS — The New Orleans Saints are currently the only NFL team without a head coach.

They missed out on the hottest candidates, and over the weekend, Former LSU offensive coordinator and current Buffalo Bills assistant Joe Brady pulled his name out of the Saints head coach search.

Eagles Offensive Coordinator Kellen Moore is currently favored to become the Saints' next coach. Moore completed a virtual interview with the team on January 18.

Mickey Loomis and his search committee will interview Moore in Philadelphia this week.

The Saints have completed in-person interviews with...
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Saints to interview Mike McCarthy this week, pending Kellen Moore visit

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For a few weeks now, the New Orleans Saints interest in former Cowboys coach Mike McCarthy has been increasingly evident, and it continues to look like he will end up as a finalist for the teams head coaching job. There had been many reports during this time that McCarthy would be interviewing with the team some time in the near future, but up until today nothing had been planned between the two parties.

On Monday, we found that McCarthy and the Saints do have a plan in place for an interview that will take place at the end of the week. There aren’t any details on where this meeting will...
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Kellen Moore watch: Saints owner's private jet flies in to Philadelphia

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It doesn’t look like last week’s Joe Brady fiasco is repeating itself with Kellen Moore. The New Orleans Saints reportedly made plans to fly in to Philadelphia as soon as Monday after the Eagles offensive coordinator led his team to a blowout win over the division-rival Washington Commanders in Sunday’s NFC Championship Game. And on Monday they followed through on that expectation.

The plane, a 2014 Bombardier Challenger 300 licensed through Benson Football LLC and registered with the Federal Aviation Administration at N411ST, departed New Orleans’ Louis Armstrong International Airport on...
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If Kellen Moore is going to coach the Saints, he must bring this assistant with him

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Kellen Moore shouldn’t be the only Philadelphia Eagles coach on the New Orleans Saints’ radar. If they’re serious about hiring him as their head coach, the Saints must make a strong effort to recruit Eagles offensive line coach Jeff Stoutland into becoming his top assistant.

There isn’t a better offensive line coach in the league than Stoutland, who has held that job since 2013. That’s through multiple regime changes and head coach firings, and you’d be hard-pressed to find a team which has done a better job drafting and developing offensive linemen than the Eagles over the last...
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Saints LBs coach Mike Hodges heads to the Cincinnati Bengals

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With the New Orleans Saints head coach search still in full force, the Saints have seen some recent changes to their current staff. This was expected since the end of the season, and it was understood that the Saints would allow all current staff members to look for other opportunities, no matter how much of a hit it would be to the team. Today, the Cincinnati Bengals announced that they have hired Saints linebackers coach Mike Hodges to be their next linebackers coach.

This is an expected move with a whole new staff coming in, but this is a significant hit to the defense. The linebacker...
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Resetting the Saints coaching search: Six candidates for one last head coaching job.

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The NFL season is rapidly approaching its endpoint, with Super Bowl LIX less than two weeks away, and the New Orleans Saints are the last team that doesn’t yet know who its head coach will be in 2025.
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Could Kellen Moore and Ashton Jeanty be the right combo for the Saints?

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Many have speculated that there has to be a way to kickstart a New Orleans Saints rebuild by trying to begin replicating what the Philadelphia Eagles have on offense, specifically their explosive rushing attack built around Saquon Barkley.

To do so, the belief is that hiring Kellen Moore (who has lifted that same Eagles offense to new heights, and who the Saints are flying into Philadelphia to interview this week) and using their first-round pick on Heisman Trophy runner-up Ashton Jeanty could somewhat revitalize their ground attack and give Moore something to work with. However, would...
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Former Saints offensive line coach joins Mike Vrabel on the Patriots

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The New Orleans Saints will have another former coach of theirs heading elsewhere this offseason, this time it was Doug Marrone, who will join Mike Vrabel with the New England Patriots. Marrone was with the Saints from 2022 to 2023 as their offensive line coach before he was dismissed from his position in Feb. 2024. He spent the time since working at Boston College, so he was already in the area.

Marrone will join the new look Patriots staff that has been pretty much gutted and started from scratch under Vrabel in recent weeks, with many assistants and positional coaches being hired. He...
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