{"id":758673,"date":"2026-02-17T17:05:34","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T17:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/758673\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T17:05:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T17:05:34","slug":"2025-saints-player-review-dt-davon-godchaux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/758673\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 Saints player review: DT Davon Godchaux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The New Orleans Saints traded a 2026 seventh-round pick to the New England Patriots for veteran defensive tackle Davon Godchaux last offseason with hope that the nose tackle would bolster the team\u2019s run defense.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Ultimately, Godchaux\u2019s first year in the black and gold was underwhelming, as the Saints\u2019 run defense remains an a work in progress.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The 31-year-old appeared in all 17 games for New Orleans in 2025, recording 43 total tackles (14 solo), 16 stops, nine total pressures, two tackles for loss and a forced fumble on 455 snaps, while posting a career-low 47.5 run-defense grade from Pro Football Focus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Godchaux, a Plaquemine, Louisiana native and former LSU Tiger, restructured his deal right after his trade to the Saints. He is signed through the 2026 season, but void years were added, with a 2025 base of $1.255 million, a $3.195 million signing bonus and a $50,000 workout bonus. Three million dollars of his 2026 base salary is guaranteed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New Orleans Saints traded a 2026 seventh-round pick to the New England Patriots for veteran defensive tackle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":758674,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2076],"tags":[7,896,55,65685,84861,401,2588,2572,2571,6,397],"class_list":{"0":"post-758673","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-new-orleans","10":"tag-new-orleans-saints","11":"tag-new-orleans-saints-analysis","12":"tag-new-orleans-saints-player-review","13":"tag-new-orleans-saints-news","14":"tag-new-orleans-saints-roster","15":"tag-neworleans","16":"tag-neworleanssaints","17":"tag-nfl","18":"tag-saints"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116087065131760852","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758673","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=758673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/758674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=758673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=758673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=758673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}