{"id":716858,"date":"2026-01-30T15:56:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T15:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/716858\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T15:56:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T15:56:19","slug":"saints-cb-alontae-taylor-2025-nfl-season-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/716858\/","title":{"rendered":"Saints CB Alontae Taylor 2025 NFL Season Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  ALONTAE TAYLOR 2025 SEASON ANALYSIS<\/p>\n<p>In his fourth season with the Saints, cornerback <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.neworleanssaints.com\/team\/players-roster\/alontae-taylor\/\" title=\"Alontae Taylor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alontae Taylor<\/a> cemented his status as a hybrid nickel and outside corner in Brandon Staley&#8217;s defense \u2014 and a statistical powerhouse for New Orleans. Taylor finished the season with 83 tackles (59) solo, two interceptions returned 21 yards, 11 pass deflections and a pair of sacks.<\/p>\n<p>With 7.0 career sacks, Taylor now ranks first in team history for sacks by a cornerback. His 83 tackles ranked sixth in the NFL for a cornerback, and his 1,058 defensive snaps ranked third on the Saints behind only <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.neworleanssaints.com\/team\/players-roster\/demario-davis\/\" title=\"Demario Davis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Demario Davis<\/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\/kool-aid-mckinstry\/\" title=\"Kool-Aid McKinstry\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kool-Aid McKinstry<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\n  BEST GAME OF ALONTAE TAYLOR&#8217;S 2025 SEASON<\/p>\n<p>In <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.neworleanssaints.com\/news\/2025-nfl-week-10-carolina-panthers-vs-new-orleans-saints-game-recap\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Week 10 against the Carolina Panthers<\/a>, Taylor picked off quarterback Bryce Young and returned it 11 yards. Taylor added six tackles (four solo) including a tackle for loss. When targeted, Taylor only allowed a quarterback rating of 48.7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALONTAE TAYLOR 2025 SEASON ANALYSIS In his fourth season with the Saints, cornerback Alontae Taylor cemented his status&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":716859,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2076],"tags":[14134,7,81,896,55,2572,2571,6,1647,397,97863],"class_list":{"0":"post-716858","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-orleans-saints","8":"tag-alontae-taylor","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-latest-news","11":"tag-new-orleans","12":"tag-new-orleans-saints","13":"tag-neworleans","14":"tag-neworleanssaints","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-roster","17":"tag-saints","18":"tag-saints-season-recap"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115984871289561391","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716858","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=716858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/716859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}