Mark Ingram wants 10,000 rushing yards, Super Bowl ring before NFL career ends
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By Mark Inabinett | AL.com
Approaching a crossroads eight seasons into his NFL career, running back Mark Ingram has things he still wants to accomplish in football.
“I’m going into my ninth year, I feel like I’m better than ever,” Ingram said during an appearance on “The Rich Eisen Show” last week. “I feel like my career’s still going up. I want to rush for 10,000 yards. Clearly, I want to win the Super Bowl. I just want to keep pressing forward, keep doing the best I can do and just control what I can control.”
But will Ingram be striving for those milestones with the New Orleans Saints, the team that brought him into the NFL from Alabama as the 28th selection in the 2011 draft?
Ingram has played out a four-year, $16 million contract signed in 2015. If the Saints don't re-sign him before the NFL's 2019 business year starts on March 13, Ingram will become a free agent. He was headed toward free agency in 2015, but he re-signed with the Saints a few days before reaching that point. ...
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(AP Photo/Butch Dill)
By Mark Inabinett | AL.com
Approaching a crossroads eight seasons into his NFL career, running back Mark Ingram has things he still wants to accomplish in football.
“I’m going into my ninth year, I feel like I’m better than ever,” Ingram said during an appearance on “The Rich Eisen Show” last week. “I feel like my career’s still going up. I want to rush for 10,000 yards. Clearly, I want to win the Super Bowl. I just want to keep pressing forward, keep doing the best I can do and just control what I can control.”
But will Ingram be striving for those milestones with the New Orleans Saints, the team that brought him into the NFL from Alabama as the 28th selection in the 2011 draft?
Ingram has played out a four-year, $16 million contract signed in 2015. If the Saints don't re-sign him before the NFL's 2019 business year starts on March 13, Ingram will become a free agent. He was headed toward free agency in 2015, but he re-signed with the Saints a few days before reaching that point. ...
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