This week, the busiest people out on 5800 Airline Drive aren’t wearing uniforms or blowing whistles.
Instead, they’re the folks in human resources and payroll whose task it is to keep track of the flurry of comings and goings of people on the New Orleans Saints roster, some of which happen so quickly there’s no time for formalities like filling out W-2s and orientation.
Like Cameron Brate.
Until Tuesday, the second-year tight end from Harvard was on the Tampa Bay practice squad.
But the Buccaneers released him, and by Wednesday morning Brate was wearing Black & Gold as a member of Saints practice squad, meaning he had a playbook before ever seeing an employee handbook.