The bulk of their makeover comes in the secondary: the New Orleans Saints lost Vonn Bell and said good riddance to Eli Apple, but locked down Janoris Jenkins and bought back Malcolm Jenkins. They’ve also re-signed aging ballhawk D.J. Swearinger and special teams ace Justin Hardee.
With the money and assets available to them, they’ve done the best they can to build a more confident secondary, one that has the attitude to fight off Tom Brady.
The key to the Saints coverage success relies, however, not on Jenkins, or Swearinger, or Janoris, or even Marshon Lattimore. The player most critical to the Saints’ success in 2020?