Nick Toon has never entered an NFL offseason with this much opportunity.
Buried on the depth chart for three seasons, Toon finds himself staring at a wide-open path to playing time, cleared by the offseason departures of Kenny Stills, Jimmy Graham and Robert Meacham, all as Toon enters the final season of the four-year rookie deal he signed in 2012.
By virtue of three seasons in New Orleans and a six-game stretch filling in for Brandin Cooks at the end of the 2014 season, Toon seems to have a good shot at the No. 3 role behind Cooks and Marques Colston this fall, if he can hold off a hard-charging group of young players and free agents.