John DeShazier | Senior Writer - NewOrleansSaints.com
Don’t look past Vonn Bell.
Just, don’t.
There may be an inclination to do that in this training camp, after Marcus Williams had a standout season at safety as a rookie in 2017, and Kurt Coleman was added as a free agent in March.
But Bell, the New Orleans Saints’ second-round pick in 2016, simply keeps plugging and thumping, whether as a starter in New Orleans’ base or three-safety defenses (24 of 32 regular-season and both playoff games), or as a player who routinely has played as many snaps as the starters on the occasions when he hasn’t taken the first defensive snap of the game.
“I always want to be that guy (to start), but we’re going to let time tell,” Bell said.
What time already has shown is that Bell is a valuable, physical chess piece for the Saints’ defense. He already has four forced fumbles, a fumble recovery, 5.5 sacks (4.5 last season), seven pass breakups and 176 tackles on his resume. ...
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