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New Orleans Saints<\/a> coach Kellen Moore<\/a> announced Monday that safety Julian Blackmon<\/a> could miss the rest of the 2025 season with a shoulder injury. Blackmon, who joined the Saints as a free agent<\/a> in July, suffered the injury in New Orleans’ Week 1 loss to the Arizona Cardinals<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n Blackmon played the entire game but realized the severity of his injury later.\u00a0<\/p>\n “Unfortunate injury,” Moore told reporters during his weekly press conference. “It will be a long one, potentially for the full season. That’s a tough one.”\u00a0<\/p>\n Blackmon missed one game with the Indianapolis Colts<\/a> in 2024 due to a shoulder injury. He had surgery in January to repair a torn labrum after playing in 16 games. He initially signed with the Saints just one day after safety Tyrann Mathieu<\/a> announced his sudden retirement from the NFL<\/a>. Blackmon filled the starting safety voided by Mathieu and was expected to maintain that role the entire season.\u00a0<\/p>\n Without Blackmon, the Saints could turn to a younger option or a free agent signing to play alongside veteran Justin Reid<\/a>. Third-year defensive back Jordan Howden<\/a>, who started 11 games over his first two seasons in New Orleans, missed the Arizona game with an oblique injury, but he can play plenty of snaps when healthy.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Saints also have rookie Jonas Sanker<\/a>, who joined the roster as a third-round pick in the 2025 NFL Draft<\/a>. Sanker showcased an impressive preseason and training camp but did not log any stats against the Cardinals.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Getty Images New Orleans Saints coach Kellen Moore announced Monday that safety Julian Blackmon could miss the rest…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352527,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2076],"tags":[7,6990,896,55,2572,2571,6,397],"class_list":{"0":"post-352526","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-julian-blackmon","10":"tag-new-orleans","11":"tag-new-orleans-saints","12":"tag-neworleans","13":"tag-neworleanssaints","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-saints"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115170760784236645","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352526","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=352526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}