The Top 10 BEST Free Agent Signings in Saints History! -- #10 Quinn Early (1 Viewer)

[Phil]

Ok, so we got a really good response to the Top 10 Worse Free Agents signed by the Saints so it's only fair to include the Top 10 Best List as well.

So Starting with #10:




Signed in 1991 from the San Diego Chargers - Receiver Quinn Early

 

[El Caliente]

Dude was a stud. I remember when we moved on from Eric Martin, and wondering if Quinn could step up, and he did.

In a better system those two would have been deadly, but they had Bobby throwing them the ball. In a system like ours now they would have been like Torry Holt and Issac Bruce.

 

[bobad]

We always talk about Eric Martin, Wes Chandler, Joe Horn, and Marques Colston, but Early belongs in that group too, even if he thought he was a comic book hero.

 

[SigFreudianSlip]

Loved me some Quinn Early.

 

[StudioSaint]

Ok, so we got a really good response to the Top 10 Worse Free Agents signed by the Saints so it's only fair to include the Top 10 Best List as well.

So Starting with #10:

I'm assuming #1 through #9 will be #9.

 

[SweetT]

I'm assuming #1 through #9 will be #9.

Not if Darren Sproles has anything to say about it. Heck, even Darren Sharper

 

[St.Dan]

We always talk about Eric Martin, Wes Chandler, Joe Horn, and Marques Colston, but Early belongs in that group too, even if he thought he was a comic book hero.

Indeed. Martin was just a few pounds short of being simply a Shannon Sharpe-type of TE anyway. So that left Early as our lone actual "receiver" back then. He was a "Plan B" free agent from the Chargers, brought in during that whole trial period with free agency. It made up for losing Mel Gray in Plan B two years earlier. And like the other names on that list and guys like Dalton Hilliard, he'd have been an absolute stud in a Payton-run and Brees-quarterbacked offense.

Boy, it's something about former Chargers through the years who come to the Saints who AT LEAST become solid contributors, if not record-breaking legends -- Early, Hand, Brees and Sproles being the examples there. They make up for having Muncie and Chandler be traded there and be in playoff games.