Jadeveon Clowney - Rumored Saints interest.

liveoakh said

I understand the sentiment, but?

1. DE Cameron Jordan - He is (34yr) The oldest is DE is Calais Campbell (36yr) Cam may retire after this year. He has to be thinking about it.
2. DE Carl Granderson - Love the guy, but has never been a starter.
3. DE Isaiah Foskey - Like the pick, but still a rook.
4. DE Payton Turner - Still a big expensive ? mark.

The only reason I mentioned Clowney is he we showed some interest in the past. We have an almost completely new D line, with a boat load of ? marks. We are still thin on effective DEs.

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The best way for those question mark players to become proven is by letting them get playing time across a full season. That’s the only reason we may not know what we have. We have a lot of DEs who needs the snaps. We’ve signed over the hill veterans on defense who ended up cut after preseason.

Granderson has never been a starter because the 1st round drafted DE Davenport was always taking up space in front of him while being mostly unproductive. Then Turner came along a few years ago and crowded up RDE even more amongst the 3 of them. Granderson outplayed both last year. He’ll get his opportunity to start this season.