{"id":300732,"date":"2025-08-19T13:56:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T13:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/300732\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T13:56:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T13:56:11","slug":"saints-shuffle-defensive-line-in-trade-with-jaguars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/300732\/","title":{"rendered":"Saints shuffle defensive line in trade with Jaguars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New Orleans Saints had a glut of interior defensive linemen. So the teams made a trade. Sunday&#8217;s swap of Saints defensive tackle Khalen Saunders for Jaguars center Luke Fortner boiled down to the simple premise that both players were on the outside looking in for their former teams ahead of roster cutdowns, and both the Saints and Jaguars had needs where their new acquisition could help. It just happened to be a nice coincidence that the two teams played each other in Sunday&#8217;s 17-17 preseason tie. <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nola.com\/sports\/saints\/saints-khalen-saunders-trade-analysis-offensive-defensive-line\/article_3f81780a-2c4a-429f-b411-636aed48545f.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Analysis: The Saints still have a logjam at defensive tackle after Khalen Saunders trade\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">SEE MORE &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New Orleans Saints had a glut of interior defensive linemen. So the teams made a trade. Sunday&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300733,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2060],"tags":[7,212,125,2401,213,81,2003,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-300732","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville-jaguars","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-jacksonville","10":"tag-jacksonville-jaguars","11":"tag-jacksonvillejaguars","12":"tag-jaguars","13":"tag-latest-news","14":"tag-morning-break","15":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115055780566976067","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300732","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=300732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}