Don’t bother with a permanent marker, because football rarely is a permanent-marker type of occupation and, especially now, it’s useless in certain cases for the New Orleans Saints.
Instead, regarding the team’s cornerback hierarchy, Coach Sean Payton suggested a different kind of instrument with which to log the pecking order.
“None of those guys are in ink,” Payton said Friday, after New Orleans’ second training camp practice at the Ochsner Sports Performance Center. “That would be a position that’s in pencil, and I mean that.
“We’ve got to be better there, we’ve got good competition. I think there’s a number of players that are going to get reps with the first and second group, you’ll see that moving a little bit.