For the first time since 2010, more than one NFL team dipped its toe into the waters of the NFL’s supplemental draft, the annual option for players whose circumstances changed after the deadline to enter the initial draft.
But the New Orleans Saints were not one of the teams to take the leap.
The New York Giants used a third-round pick to select Western Michigan cornerback Sam Neal, and the Washington Redskins spent a sixth-rounder on Virginia Tech’s Adonis Alexander.
Neal is the highest player taken in the supplemental draft since Cleveland used a second-round pick to take Josh Gordon in 2012. When a team makes a pick in the supplemental draft, it forfeits the pick in the round designated in the next full NFL draft.
With its first-round pick in 2019 already gone due to a draft-day trade for Marcus Davenport, New Orleans stayed silent.
Not that a lack of action from the Saints is out of the ordinary. New Orleans has made only one pick in the supplemental draft in its entire franchise history; the Saints used a first-rounder on quarterback Dave Wilson in 1981.
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The New Orleans Saints will report for training camp July 25 and hold 10 training camp practices open to the public at the team’s Ochsner Sports Performance Center in Metairie, the team announced Monday.
The club will begin on-field workouts in non-padded sessions on Thursday, July 26 and Friday, July 27 from 8:50-11:40 a.m.
The team will hold its first padded practice, which will also be the first practice open to the public, on Saturday, July 28 from 8:50-11:40 and will continue practicing in pads through July 30.
Following an off day for the team on July 31, practices resume Aug. 1 from 8:50-11:40 in a session open to the public.
On Sunday, Aug. 5, the team will hold a 7 p.m. practice open to the public at Tulane’s Yulman Stadium. This will be the final Saints practice open to the public prior to them departing for Jacksonville for their preseason opener at the Jaguars on Thursday, Aug. 9.
After practices at the Ochsner Sports Performance Center on the weekend of Aug. 18-19 (Aug. 19 open to the public), the team will officially break camp.
Here is a full list of open practices:
Saturday, July 28, 8:50-11:40 a.m.
Sunday, July 29, 8:50-11:40 a.m.
Monday, July 30, 8:50-11:40 a.m.
Wednesday, Aug. 1, 8:50-11:40 a.m.
Thursday, Aug. 2, 8:50-11:40 a.m.
Saturday, Aug. 4, 8:50-11:40 a.m.
Sunday, Aug, 5, 7-9 p.m. at Tulane University
Saturday, Aug. 11, 8:50-11:40 a.m.
Sunday, Aug. 12, 8:50-11:40 a.m.
Sunday, Aug. 19, 8:50-11:40 a.m.
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TRACEY JAGNEAUX Sports Editor