Column: Saints’ Taysom Hill is a do-it-all quarterback still perfecting his game (1 Viewer)

[Dan in Lafayette]

By Sam Farmer | LA Times

He’s listed as the third-string quarterback for the New Orleans Saints, but no simple label defines the do-it-all Taysom Hill.

His role is as complex as his agenda during a typical training camp practice, when he zigzags from position group to position group, throwing passes here, catching them there, variously lining up at quarterback, tight end and running back. For good measure, he’s right in the mix on the field goal-block team.

If he were a truck — and the third-year Hill looks like one at 6 feet 2, 225 pounds — he’d be a Mack of all trades.

“Taysom is a quarterback who happens to be an incredible athlete, and therefore his strength and his skill set and his smarts and his toughness can be used in other areas as well,” Saints quarterback Drew Brees said last week after a joint practice with the Chargers. “But I don’t think there are a lot of Taysom Hills out there.”

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