{"id":682153,"date":"2026-01-16T16:24:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T16:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/682153\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T16:24:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T16:24:19","slug":"saints-des-chase-young-and-carl-grandersons-2025-nfl-season-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/682153\/","title":{"rendered":"Saints DEs Chase Young and Carl Granderson&#8217;s 2025 NFL Season Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Orleans Saints edge rushers <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.neworleanssaints.com\/team\/players-roster\/chase-young\/\" title=\"Chase Young\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chase Young<\/a> and <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.neworleanssaints.com\/team\/players-roster\/carl-granderson\/\" title=\"Carl Granderson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carl Granderson<\/a> were given different responsibilities in defensive coordinator Brandon Staley&#8217;s 3-4 scheme, and each responded well. Young, in fact, produced his best NFL season despite missing the first five games while recovering from a calf injury. Young established a new career high with 10 sacks, tied career highs with four passes defensed, three fumble recoveries and a fumble return for a touchdown, forced two fumbles and had two quarterback hits. Granderson had six sacks, his second most in a season, to go with nine quarterback hits, 11 tackles for loss, four passes defensed and his first career interception.<\/p>\n<p>Young was a monster in New Orleans&#8217; 34-26 <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.neworleanssaints.com\/news\/2025-nfl-week-17-tennessee-titans-vs-new-orleans-saints-game-recap\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">victory over Tennessee<\/a> on Dec. 28 at Nissan Stadium in Nashville, Tenn. His 1.5 sacks included a sack-strip-recovery that he returned 33 yards for a touchdown to pull the Saints to within 13-10 in the second quarter. He finished with two quarterback hits, a tackle for loss and four tackles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Orleans Saints edge rushers Chase Young and Carl Granderson were given different responsibilities in defensive coordinator Brandon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":682154,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2076],"tags":[6868,6870,7,81,896,55,2572,2571,6,1647,397,97863],"class_list":{"0":"post-682153","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-orleans-saints","8":"tag-carl-granderson","9":"tag-chase-young","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-latest-news","12":"tag-new-orleans","13":"tag-new-orleans-saints","14":"tag-neworleans","15":"tag-neworleanssaints","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-roster","18":"tag-saints","19":"tag-saints-season-recap"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115905709678829472","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682153","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=682153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/682154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}