Although he left for a little over two years, Mark Ingram seemingly never lost the adulation of the New Orleans Saints fanbase when he returned to the team mid-season in 2021. It is eerie, because when he was first drafted by New Orleans in 2011, the former Alabama running back was not exactly a favorite of the heavy LSU-leaning Saints crowd. Making it worse, Ingram combined for only 1,462 rushing yards in his first three seasons in NOLA, while spending the better part of these years in the training room with injuries. But then, Ingram had a renaissance of sorts from 2014 on.