{"id":149099,"date":"2025-06-22T04:24:25","date_gmt":"2025-06-22T04:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/149099\/"},"modified":"2025-06-22T04:24:25","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T04:24:25","slug":"saints-rookies-continue-touring-new-orleans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/149099\/","title":{"rendered":"Saints rookies continue touring New Orleans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While he was at the University of Texas, Vernon Broughton mostly lined up as a three-technique defensive tackle, meaning he lined up over the outside shoulder of the offensive guard. But one of the things that drew the New Orleans Saints to him was that Broughton did a lot of other things, too. And as they&#8217;ve brought him up to speed at the NFL level, the Saints have been checking out what Broughton can give them as a defensive end in their new 3-4 alignment. <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nola.com\/sports\/saints\/the-saints-drafted-vernon-broughton-for-his-versatility\/article_f5b8a903-4385-461d-8ed0-9367e29ac8b4.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"The Saints drafted a college DT in the third round with the idea of playing him all over\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">SEE MORE &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While he was at the University of Texas, Vernon Broughton mostly lined up as a three-technique defensive tackle,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149100,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2076],"tags":[7,81,2003,896,55,2572,2571,6,397],"class_list":{"0":"post-149099","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-orleans-saints","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-latest-news","10":"tag-morning-break","11":"tag-new-orleans","12":"tag-new-orleans-saints","13":"tag-neworleans","14":"tag-neworleanssaints","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-saints"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114725117695275567","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}