After starting 16 games as a rookie first-round draft pick for New Orleans in 2015, Stephone Anthony has started just three games since.

No wonder he conceded Monday that he would love to win the third starting linebacker job alongside Kiko Alonso and Raekwon McMillan.

“That should be one of my first goals,” he said. “Before I do anything else, I’ve got to become the starter.”

Anthony has received a lot of the first-team work in the team’s offseason program but said veteran Terence Garvin (who started three games for Seattle last season) and third-round rookie Jerome Baker are also getting snaps with the starters: “Right now, they’ve just got us rotating,”

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