Saints LB Colton Jumper knows secret to making the roster is special teams, not game-winning interception (1 Viewer)

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By Nathan Brown | The Advocate / Picayune

Colton Jumper was beaming Monday talking through the play that sealed the Saints’ preseason win over the Chargers, but he’s fully aware — and so are his coaches — that it’ll take more than one stout play on defense for the second-year player out of Tennessee to make New Orleans’ 53-man roster.

With less than a minute to go, backup Chargers quarterback Easton Stick fired an off-target throw toward Artavis Scott in the team’s last-ditch effort to drive for a game-winning field goal. Jumper was there to make the interception. In a position where a regular-season player would have been coached to slide and seal the game, Jumper’s competitive instincts kicked in.

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