{"id":691669,"date":"2026-01-20T17:34:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T17:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/691669\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T17:34:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T17:34:17","slug":"saints-joel-thomas-to-represent-at-senior-bowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/691669\/","title":{"rendered":"Saints Joel Thomas to represent at Senior Bowl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New Orleans Saints did not make the playoffs this season, but there were reminders of the franchise across the divisional round. This past weekend saw a number of former Saints \u2014 from coaches to players who were on the roster as recently as November \u2014 featured in big moments in the postseason, for better and worse. <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nola.com\/sports\/saints\/saints-former-coaches-players-swing-playoffs\/article_bec5d9fe-7edd-42c2-b432-a580c142dd67.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"From Sean Payton to Rashid Shaheed, former Saints help swing NFL divisional round\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">SEE MORE&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The New Orleans Saints will have a heavier presence than usual at this year&#8217;s Senior Bowl. Saints running backs coach Joel Thomas will serve as the head coach of the American team in the all-star exhibition game featuring players vying to be selected in the NFL draft. He&#8217;ll have a number of other Saints assistants working under him. <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nola.com\/sports\/saints\/saints-kellen-moore-staff-senior-bowl\/article_8d6388bc-3ceb-4f25-a643-00f0eb02d861.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Kellen Moore&#039;s Saints staff will be well represented at this year&#039;s Senior Bowl. Here&#039;s how.\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">SEE MORE&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New Orleans Saints did not make the playoffs this season, but there were reminders of the franchise&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":691670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2076],"tags":[7,81,2003,896,55,2572,2571,6,397],"class_list":{"0":"post-691669","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-latest-news","10":"tag-morning-break","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\/115928633516318788","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691669","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=691669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/691670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}