{"id":232012,"date":"2025-07-24T09:46:19","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T09:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/232012\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T09:46:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T09:46:19","slug":"saints-julian-blackmon-officially-headed-to-new-orleans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/232012\/","title":{"rendered":"Saints&#8217; Julian Blackmon: Officially headed to New Orleans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"VideoPlayer-backgroundImage\" alt=\"default-cbs-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/video-slate.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nfl\/teams\/NO\/new-orleans-saints\/\" aria-label=\"home team page\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"TeamLogo-image\" alt=\"team logo\" src=\"https:\/\/sports.cbsimg.net\/fly\/images\/team-logos\/421.svg\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                                                <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nfl\/players\/2253091\/blackmon\/fantasy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Blackmon<\/a> and the <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nfl\/teams\/NO\/new-orleans-saints\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Saints<\/a> agreed on a one-year contract Wednesday, Adam Schefter of ESPN reports.<\/p>\n<p>Blackmon will officially head to New Orleans, helping fill the void in the team&#8217;s secondary after Tyrann Mathieu retired Tuesday. Blackmon appears to have fully recovered from his offseason shoulder surgery, and he&#8217;ll now compete with Jonas Sanker and J.T. Gray for the team&#8217;s starting free safety role. The 26-year-old has recorded 174 combined tackles over the last two years, and he&#8217;ll look to maintain that level of production with the Saints.<\/p>\n<p>        More News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Blackmon and the Saints agreed on a one-year contract Wednesday, Adam Schefter of ESPN reports. Blackmon will officially&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181506,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2076],"tags":[1999,7,6990,896,55,2572,2571,6,397],"class_list":{"0":"post-232012","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-orleans-saints","8":"tag-fantasy-football","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-julian-blackmon","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\/114907577435835158","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232012","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=232012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}