{"id":197679,"date":"2025-07-11T02:35:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T02:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/197679\/"},"modified":"2025-07-11T02:35:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T02:35:12","slug":"saints-announce-annual-5k-run-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/197679\/","title":{"rendered":"Saints announce annual 5k run date"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New Orleans Saints and Easy Day Sports announced today that online registration for the 13th Annual Saints Kickoff Run, presented by Hancock Whitney, is now open at saints5k.com. The race will take place on Saturday, September 6th, the day before the Saints open the regular season at home against the Arizona Cardinals. <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.neworleanssaints.com\/news\/saints-5k-kickoff-run-registration-september-6-13th-annual-hancock-whitney-2025-nfl-season\" title=\"13th Annual Saints Kickoff Run presented by Hancock Whitney open for registration\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SEE MORE &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Joel Thomas, a 25-year coaching veteran, returns to New Orleans to tutor the club&#8217;s running backs in 2025 after previously spending nine years with the Black and Gold (2015-23). After spending the 2024 season coaching the New York Giants running backs, the Port Angeles, Wash., native returns to New Orleans with the additional title of associate head coach. <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.neworleanssaints.com\/news\/joel-thomas-associate-head-coach-running-backs-coach-2025-new-orleans-saints-coaches-profile\" title=\"Meet the 2025 New Orleans Saints coaches: Joel Thomas\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SEE MORE &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New Orleans Saints and Easy Day Sports announced today that online registration for the 13th Annual Saints&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197680,"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-197679","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\/114832274129108537","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197679","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=197679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}