{"id":297213,"date":"2025-08-18T05:23:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T05:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/297213\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T05:23:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T05:23:11","slug":"saints-trade-away-2-time-super-bowl-champion-to-afc-foe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/297213\/","title":{"rendered":"Saints trade away 2-time Super Bowl champion to AFC foe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nfl\/new-orleans-saints\/news\/saints-trade-away-2-time-super-bowl-champion-afc-foe\/28813d1342a21692c8bb11b7?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=appeared_on\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Saints trade away 2-time Super Bowl champion to AFC foe;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Saints trade away 2-time Super Bowl champion to AFC foe<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=appeared_on\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The Sporting News;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">The Sporting News<\/a><\/p>\n<p>At 1 p.m. on Sunday, Khalen Saunders started for the New Orleans Saints in the preseason against the Jacksonville Jaguars.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>By the end of the day, Saunders was a member of the Jags.<\/p>\n<p>The Saints traded Saunders to the Jaguars after their matchup against one another.<\/p>\n<p>The deal, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/saints-trade-dt-khalen-saunders-to-the-jaguars\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:reported by NFL Network&#039;s Tom Pelissero;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">reported by NFL Network&#8217;s Tom Pelissero<\/a>, brings back center Luke Fortner to New Orleans.<\/p>\n<p>Saunders is a 29-year old defensive tackle who listed as DT2 on the Saints&#8217; depth chart behind Davon Godchaux.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/ncaa-football\/news\/colorado-buffaloes-football-legend-shedeur-sanders-nfl-draft-slide-browns-mistake\/bd52db89765c1f9e41a7092e\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Shedeur Sanders shows his NFL Draft slide might&#039;ve been a mistake;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Shedeur Sanders shows his NFL Draft slide might&#8217;ve been a mistake<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The big fella had 43 tackles, including two sacks, along with an interception last season for New Orleans.<\/p>\n<p>Saunders had spent four seasons with the Chiefs before coming to the Saints for a couple years. He won two Super Bowl rings in Kansas City.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Now, Saunders is entering the final year of his contract.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nfl\/los-angeles-rams\/news\/rams-jimmy-garoppolo-decision-matthew-stafford-injury\/7d3e0f7f8020a2b2a33b9cca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Rams&#039; Jimmy Garoppolo decision tells us everything about Matthew Stafford&#039;s injury;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Rams&#8217; Jimmy Garoppolo decision tells us everything about Matthew Stafford&#8217;s injury<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fortner has appeared in every possible one of the 51 games the Jaguars have played since he was a third-round pick in 2022. That includes 34 starts.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s also entering the last season of his deal.<\/p>\n<p>Saints center Will Clapp sustained a season-ending foot injury, so they needed a new guy to fill that role, and Fortner will be the guy.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that Saints and Jags played Sunday seems mostly a coincidence, although maybe it was one last chance to get a good look at the guy each team wanted.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>MORE NFL NEWS:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saints trade away 2-time Super Bowl champion to AFC foe originally appeared on The Sporting News At 1&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297214,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2076],"tags":[346,8106,7,125,7841,6210,8474,32,896,55,2572,2571,6,126,424,397,17,494,3257,8532],"class_list":{"0":"post-297213","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-orleans-saints","8":"tag-chiefs","9":"tag-davon-godchaux","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-jacksonville-jaguars","12":"tag-jimmy-garoppolo","13":"tag-khalen-saunders","14":"tag-luke-fortner","15":"tag-matthew-stafford","16":"tag-new-orleans","17":"tag-new-orleans-saints","18":"tag-neworleans","19":"tag-neworleanssaints","20":"tag-nfl","21":"tag-nfl-network","22":"tag-rams","23":"tag-saints","24":"tag-shedeur-sanders","25":"tag-the-saints","26":"tag-tom-pelissero","27":"tag-will-clapp"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115048101285970448","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297213","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=297213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}