Before Adam Bighill set foot on the field in OTAs, minicamp and training camp this year, he’d been targeted.
Truth is, the New Orleans Saints wanted to sign the 28-year-old linebacker near the end of the last NFL season, after Bighill had completed his sixth CFL season with the British Columbia Lions.
“I think it was Week 15, I came in for a workout and that was when I was down from my CFL season,” Bighill said Sunday at the Ochsner Sports Performance Center. “They didn’t know I had to sign a futures deal from playing a full CFL season; that’s why I had to sign a futures.